School IPM—Additional Resources

• On this page: IPM Resources | For School Nurses | For Teachers | Healthy Schools Resources | Green Cleaning

Integrated Pest Management Resources

School IPM - Pest-Specific

• Best Management Practices for School IPM (guidance & tools from NE IPM Center )
• Cooperative Extension Insect, Tick and Plant Disease Lab (image gallery and authoritative pest guidance)
• Gotpests.org (image gallery and authoritative pest guidance)
• iSchoolPestManager (Searchable. Pest guidance, training modules, & more)
• Maine Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (guidance on ticks, mosquitoes, bed bugs)
• Maine Inland Fisheries and Wildlife Department (nuisance wildlife guidance -- bats, snakes, skunks & more)
• Northeast IPM Resource Database (searchable repository of fact sheets, manuals & more)
• Wildlife Damage Management Handbook (resource for managing rodents, deer, birds, bats, snakes & more) 

School IPM - General

• An Ounce of Prevention! IPM for Schools and Child Care Facilities (PDF)
• Connecticut School IPM (good resources for sports fields and lawns)
• EPA Managing Pests in Schools (webinars, pest service contract guidance & more)
• IPM for Childcare Centers video series (CA Dept of Pesticide Regulation)
• IPM Star Certification program
• New York State School and Daycare IPM (many good resources)
• Pennsylvania School IPM NEW Updated How-To Manual (free pdf or for purchase)
• Pest Defense for Healthy Schools (free on-line training for school employees)
• Texas AgriLife Extension School IPM (up-to-date resources, forms, guidance & more)

Pesticide Resources

• Maine Board of Pesticides Control (pesticide info and more)
• National Pesticide Information Center (tools, information and resources on pesticides including disinfectants and sanitizers)
• Regulating Pesticide Use in United States Schools (PDF)

For School Nurses

• Fact Sheets: Ticks, Rodents, Mosquitoes, Stinging Insects, Head Lice, Bed Bugs.
• Wallet Cards: Ticks, Rodents, Mosquitoes, Stinging Insects, Mold, Head Lice, Poisonous Plants, Bed Bugs

For Teachers

• K-12 Curricula and Resources
• Maine Ag in the Classroom
• Vital Signs Maine

Indoor Air Quality/Healthy Schools Resources

• Maine Asthma Program Website
  • Maine Childcare Provider Toolkit (PDF)
  • Asthma & Sports: For Coaches (PDF)
  • Maine School Asthma Plan (PDF)
• Energy Savings plus Health (EPA) (includes Checklist Generator)
• EPA’s Healthy School Environment Resources
  • Greener Living Resources
• Beyond Pesticides Healthy Schools Project
• Maine Indoor Air Quality Council
• Schools for Health (Harvard School of Public Health) (PDF)

Green Cleaning

• Cleaning for Asthma-safe Schools Tool Kit
• EPA: Pesticides and Chemicals and Toxics
  • Design for the Environment Safer Product Selection Tool
• Informed Green Solutions

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