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PPHE staff designed and later simplified the parent informational brochure and parent application forms to collect the necessary basic information and to accommodate parents’ literacy skills. Parents signed an Informed Consent form and used hospital approved parent stipend information materials. A stipend was provided for the families throughout the three-year program. Once families completed their family visit and evaluations, a quarterly stipend was distributed to families. The St. Elizabeth Family Medicine Center feels strongly that some families would participate in the program without a stipend. Many families have expressed to the PPHE coordinator their need to “tell their. | Nurses and Environmental Health Success Through Action Illustrations From Across the Nation January 2002 . DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry N EEiTuF The National Environmental Education Training Foundation -DRAFT- This publication was produced by the National Environmental Education Training Foundation. Printing was supported by funds from the Comprehensive Environmental Response Compensation and Liability Act CERCLA trust fund through the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry . Department of Health and Human Services. A copy of this publication can be obtained from The National Environmental Education Training Foundation 1707 H Street . Suite 900 Washington DC 20006 Telephone 202-833-2933 Fax 202-261-6464 Web The National Environmental Education Training Foundation is responsible for any errors of fact or interpretation contained in this document. -DRAFT- i Acknowledgments The trustees and staff of the National Environmental Education Training Foundation are grateful to all those who helped make this publication possible. Deserving special thanks are the many nursing professionals and health professional organizations that contributed their success stories. This publication would not have been possible without their continuing dedication and tireless efforts to improve environmental health. No amount of medical knowledge will lessen the accountability for nurses to do what nurses do that is manage the environment to promote positive life processes. Florence Nightingale Environmental health comprises those aspects of human health including quality of life that are determined by interactions with physical chemical biological and social factors in the environment. It also refers to the theory and practice of assessing correcting controlling and preventing those factors in the environment that may adversely affect the health of present and future generations. Pew Environmental .