This agreement provides funding under the inflation reduction act (IRA) to health resources in action

Specifically, the recipient will build knowledge and capacity to improve environmental health conditions within massachusetts schools, taking actions to improve indoor environmental quality and healthy childhood development, particularly for districts where students are most burdened by asthma and extreme heat. This project expands on health resources in action and the massachusetts asthma action partnership's efforts to provide more in-depth capacity building, education, technical assistance (TA), implementation assistance and resources to schools in priority communities to improve indoor environmental quality. Partner school communities will identify specific projects that are appropriate and attainable based on school (district) environments, local priorities, and funding. The project will provide educational webinars on a range of environmental topics including installing a cool roof, decarbonization of school buildings, and other topics. The project will also organize an environmental health in schools summit. The project will directly benefit over 1,000 students, and improve the quality of environmental conditions in schools and communities across massachusetts.activities:the activities include working with the massachusetts asthma action partnership healthy schools committee and advisors throughout the project period and identifying resources to be posted on massachusetts asthma action partnership website for broad public access. Health resources in action will develop a simple healthy environments advance learning champions application and template agreement letter for the superintendent to solicit applications from eligible school districts. Health resources in action will provide and coordinate resources, technical assistance and capacity building services to two or three school districts focused to selecting and implement projects. Health resources in action will also develop content for interactive virtual learning sessions on a variety of prevention/mitigation interventions for schools. Health resources in action will recruit workshop participants and host four workshop sessions. Health resources in action will organize an environmental health in schools summit (in person and livestreamed). Health resources in action will develop case studies, based on the health resources in action champion projects and updating massachusetts asthma action partnership's healthy schools webpage/portal and promote via massachusetts asthma action partnership newsletter, social media, and partners' communication platforms and websites to ensure broad public accessibility to information and resources.subrecipient:metropolitan area planning council (mapc) will serve as the main project partner, providing technical assistance to massachusetts schools, identifying and recruiting subject matter experts to support school projects, delivering webinar training and coordinating the environmental health in schools summit. Mapc will disseminate materials through their website, digital media, and communications networks with municipal staff, elected officials, and residents. Mapc will engage associations such as the massachusetts school building authority, massachusetts association of health boards, to support the projects as needed. Northeastern university school health academy (neusha) will provide professional development points for participants of webinars, the environmental health in schools summit, and for eligible healthy environments advance learning champions, including promoting the summit through existing contacts. The public health institute of western massachusetts (phiwm) will disseminate materials through their website, newsletters, and social media. If partner school districts are interested in air quality monitoring within schools, public health institute of western massachusetts (phiwm) will explo