Eco-Healthy Child Care® National Advisory Committee

National Advisory Committee

The EHCC National Advisory Committee (NAC) was formed in 2008.  The EHCC NAC guides CEHN’s environmental health work within the early care and learning field and promotes interdisciplinary collaboration. The committee consists of environmental health, public health and child care thought leaders working at both the national and state levels. Our NAC is unique–there are no other national child care committees that actively guide the cross collaboration between national and state child care associations and organizations AND environmental health experts.

  • Erica Buchanan (New York Site Director at All Our Kin)
  • Darlene Daniels (Program Manager for Child Care at the General Services Administration (GSA) Child Care Operations)
  • Susan Friedman (Senior Director, Publishing & Content Development at the National Association for the Education of Young Children, NAEYC)
  • Kristine Gauthier (Director at the National Resource Center for Health and Safety in Child Care and Early Education, NRC)
  • Kay Ballard (Operations Response Manager at Bright Horizons)
  • Sue Kowaleski (Coordinator at the Southern Adirondack Child Care Network, New York)
  • Jim Murphy (Executive Director at the National Association for Regulatory Administration, NARA)
  • Eboni Delaney (Member Relations and Policy Support Manager for the National Association for Family Child Care, NAFCC)
  • Perry Sheffield (Director at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, PEHSU, Region 2)
  • LCDR Tarah S. Somers (Region 1 Representative at the Agency for Toxic Substances & Disease Registry, ATSDR)

The Children’s Environmental Health Network is not liable for any health and safety violation that may be witnessed at an Eco-Healthy Child Care® facility.  This program encourages best practices and policies.  It is the responsibility of each facility to follow the mandated child care licensing regulations within their respective state.