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The Monroe County, Indiana IPM Model Successful AND Transferable IPM Programs for Schools Dr. Marc L. Lame

"The Monroe IPM Model" - impacts over one million children nationwide. The Monroe IPM Model is a 22 step process reliant on intensive communication and partnership and based on sound pest management as practiced by national experts. School districts in Alabama, Arizona, California, Indiana, and the Navajo Indian Reservation use this model for the implementation of IPM. The average pesticide reduction has been 90% with a similar reduction in pest problems. Each initial adopting team of the Monroe IPM Model has developed statewide education programs (to act as model, "peer" implementers) for their state under different, supported agreements with the State Lead Agency. Each has participated in programs with or for their state's Professional Pest Management Association and/or Association of School Business Officials. This model has been successful in the school environment because the cultural (sanitation) and mechanical (exclusion) strategies of IPM can be incorporated into the existing custodial and maintenance activities such as sanitation, energy conservation, building security and infrastructure maintenance. Further, monitoring efficiency is enhanced via the virtual full time presence and perception of the school community. This model is dependent on an educational approach, which creates an awareness of all school occupants that monitoring, sanitation and exclusion strategies represent a proactive management strategy versus the more reactive strategy of chemical pesticide treatment. Finally, by incorporating IPM into existing school operations (sanitation, maintenance, and classroom education) the school district has overcome the natural resistance of "adding pest management to an already full plate" often found in institutional staff.

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