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EPA Lead Program Grant Fact Sheet
EPA's National Community-Based Lead Grant Program
The National Community-Based Lead Outreach and Training Grants promote efforts to prevent or reduce childhood lead poisoning. In 2008, the Agency awarded nearly $2 million in grant dollars to fund this ambitious program. These grants will fund local efforts to reduce the incidence of childhood lead poisoning in communities with older housing, including community outreach efforts, training and local ordinance development projects. Grant recipients range from city health departments to universities and colleges, community organizations, religious groups, and other non-profit organizations.
EPA's lead program is playing a major role in meeting the Federal goal of eliminating childhood lead poisoning as a major public health concern by 2010, and the projects supported by these grant funds are an important part of this ongoing effort. According to the Centers for Disease Control in 1978 there were 13.5 million children in the US with elevated blood lead levels. By 2002, that number had dropped to 310,000.
For more information about EPA's Lead Program, visit www.epa.gov/lead or call 1-800-424-LEAD.
Alliance for Healthy Homes
EPA has selected the Alliance for Healthy Homes for a National Community-Based Lead Outreach and Training Grant. The Healthy Homes Collaborative, the LA Community Legal Center, and Pacoima Beautiful will partner with the Alliance for Healthy Homes to collectively provide lead awareness education, in-home lead awareness training, lead-safe work practice training, and pursue policy changes in several communities across Los Angeles County.
The project will deliver lead awareness education sessions to tenants and homeowners. The education sessions will include information on the health effects of lead, ways for families to protect themselves from lead hazards, including those encountered during renovation activities, and federal, state, and local lead-based paint policies and regulations.
Lead-safe work practice training will be offered to community members, with a special emphasis on reaching code enforcement officials in San Fernando, Huntington Park, South Gate, and Lynwood areas of the county. The Alliance and its local partners will work to develop local policies aimed at encouraging the use of lead-safe work practices.