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Funding Program: Working Groups

Project Title: North Central School IPM Working Group

Project Director (PD): Thomas Green [1]

Lead State: WI Lead Organization: IPM Institute of North America, INC

Cooperating State(s): Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, North Dakota, Nebraska, Ohio, South Dakota

Undesignated Funding: $20,000

Start Date: Mar-01-2017 End Date: Feb-28-2018

Pests Involved: Pests in urban structures and landscapes

Area of Emphasis: Urban structures, specifically schools

Summary: Students spend a major part of each day in school – and an unhealthy school environment with risks from pests and pesticides directly contributes to health problems such as asthma. IPM in schools reduces pesticide use, residues and toxicity, and lowers the number of pest complaints and pest-related asthmagens. It is crucial that school districts are informed about IPM practices and know how to successfully train all staff involved in making a school’s pest management program successful. The goal of the North Central School IPM Working Group is to make schools healthier places with fewer pests and pesticides by facilitating the development and adoption of IPM solutions. The Working Group aims to achieve its goal by focusing on four objectives in the 2017 – 2018 funding period. First, by making a standardized IPM training available online to school districts to help meet the need for certified professional development opportunities in IPM and collaborate with other organizations to promote the training among their constituents in the north-central region. Second, by coordinating regular conference calls with the North Central School IPM Working Group and the National School IPM Working Group Joint Steering and Advisory Committee to align on available information and resources. Third, by highlighting IPM in schools in the news by circulating a monthly newsletter to over 5,473 individuals. And fourth, by updating their stakeholder priorities to assure alignment among all collaborators to reduce duplication of efforts. Objectives: 1. Collaborate with others in the region to roll out and promote the standardized IPM training course Stop School Pests for K-12 public school staff to school districts across the north-central region. Make the training available online for free through a website and administer certificates and certification. The online training package includes downloadable training slide decks, document templates for conducting in-person training and instructions on how to take the exam for certification or to gain a certificate. Roll out the training in the region by identifying and working closely with at least three organizations, that also have school IPM as a core priority, to establish the training with their members, including getting trainings scheduled at any state meetings, and getting online training and certificates promoted to all of their members and member’s school districts. 2. Continue to coordinate monthly conference calls and other networking, coordination and information exchange opportunities for the North Central School IPM Working Group and the National Steering and Advisory Committees. Maintain website sections at https://ipminstitute.org/projects/school-ipm-2020/ and https://ipminstitute.org/projects/north-central-region-school-ipm-working-group/ for the national and regional group to host general information, priorities, resources, and project development. 3. Continue to create and send out a monthly email newsletter that presents news from the region and school IPM projects and disseminate it to our readership. 4. Update Working Group stakeholder priorities as we work toward our goal for schools in the north-central region to be practicing high-level IPM.

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