Community Organizing Network for Environmental Health

The Community Organizing Network for Environmental Health is a part of Community Action Against Asthma (CAAA), which, in turn is a part of the Michigan Center for the Environment and Children's Health. It is a community-based intervention research partnership between the University of Michigan, community-based organizations, and health care institutions in Detroit.

The aims of the Community Organizing Network for Environmental Health are to: share with community groups and organizations the findings from data collected through household and air quality research of the CAAA project; identify and engage existing community groups and organizations interested in working on environmental issues important to their neighborhood and community in the hopes of creating an interorganizational network (I.N.); work with member group of the I.N. to organize, coordinate and conduct activities to reduce physical environmental threats related to asthma; and increase community awareness and knowledge of factors associated with the environment and asthma through sharing of findings to community residents through presentations, annual reports, postings of websites, and community forums