For 35 years, NCAP has combined community outreach, education, advocacy and organizing to protect the health of people and the environment by advancing alternatives to pesticides.NCAP has a variety of programs benefiting rural and urban communities throughout the Northwest. NCAP is urging better protections to keep pesticides out of water; establishing safe, pesticide-free schools and low income housing communities and protecting children and families where they live, learn, work and play; strengthening sustainable agriculture and rural economies; reforming federal pesticide policy, and educating people about using alternatives to pesticides in and around their homes.