University of Arizona College of Agriculture and Life Sciences faculty serve on the National IPM School Working Group providing support to schools practicing Integrated Pest Management. With support from a U.S. EPA grant (2010 PRIA 2 grant), the team recently created two new documents:

The Business Case for Integrated Pest Management in Schools: Cutting Costs and Increasing Benefits

See http://www.ipminstitute.org/school_ipm_2015/ipm_business_case.pdf

Reducing your Child’s Asthma using Integrated Pest Management: A Practical Home Guide for Parents

Go to http://www.ipminstitute.org/school_ipm_2015/ipm_asthma_document.pdf

The team also offers a free monthly School IPM 2015 Newsletter, geared toward school staff and those working and with schools: http://www.ipminstitute.org/school_ipm_2015/Newsletters.htm 

For more information, go to the School IPM 2015 website at http://www.ipminstitute.org/school_ipm_2015/about.htm or contact Dawn Gouge, Department of Entomology at (520) 568-2273, dhgouge@ag.arizona.edu.