The Center for School Mold Help

"I am committed to pursuing greater funding for the EPA so that its responsibilities are carried out. Clean water, land and air, and ensuring the health and safety of our citizens, especially children, will be high priorities in an Obama Administration" (Presidential Candidate, Barack Obama, Oct., 2008)*.

*See complete statement, below, in a letter to John Gage, National President, American Federation of Government Employees, AFL-CIO.

We hope that President-elect Obama will hear from our site visitors about the importance of healthy schools. Visit his new website: http://change.gov. Tell him your story and concerns at http://change.gov/page/content/americanmoment.

Just today (11/7/08), I viewed an aging California high school guidance office that was profoundly leaky - the evidence of long-term leaks, as dark stains, riddled the entire ceiling. The air was stuffy and musty. Two guidance counselors and one high school student occupied this building, oblivious to its dangers. I look forward to the Change We Need under the Obama administration (SMH Director).

The long awaited GAO (USA General Accounting Office) Audit on Mold is now posted and public, on the GAO site, as well as here, on the SMH site.

This groundbreaking report refutes the notion that mold is only a nuisance or minor allergen. It is a key document to use in any venue where one might wish to cite the serious nature of mold exposure - in our schools, homes, offices or other buildings. Parents with children in damp or moldy schools will be able to use this document to show that there is no safe level of mold exposure. Parents of students concerned about or harmed by mold exposures will want to use this document with their school districts, school boards, health departments, physicians, and attorneys. Teachers and school staff concerned about or harmed by mold will want to provide this document to their physicians, unions, local OSHA, health departments and attorneys. 

Gone is the day when denials of the health effects of mold exposures are accepted. Mold remediation will improve with consistent direction from our government. People will be adequately warned of the health risks of indoor mold exposure.

Our sincere thanks to Senator Ted Kennedy for requesting this audit and to those who tirelessly lobbied for it. We hope this is the beginning of an era of greater accuracy, research, and consistency among the US gov't agencies, with regard to mold's health effects and its prevention, that will greatly improve the health of our nation. (SMH)