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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.
Groundwork Denver
EPA has selected the Groundwork Denver (GWD) and their partners Northeast Denver Housing Center (NDHC), Denver Environmental Health (DEH) and the National Center for Healthy Housing (NCHH), for a National Community-Based Lead Outreach and Training Grant.
In collaboration with a number of community-based organizations and in partnership a national organization, GWD will provide outreach and training in the low-income communities of west Denver, CO, while also addressing the overall lack of infrastructure for lead enforcement city-wide.
Along with developing outreach plans and information packets on lead-based hazards in both English and Spanish, GWD and its partners plan on participating in community events and presenting education programs at 40 community, school and daycare centers. Programs will include EPA/HUD training on approved Renovation, Remodeling and Painting lead-safe work practices. Finally, GWD will work to evaluate existing ordinances and develop new ones as part of an effort to bolster an infrastructure of lead hazard awareness outreach and training.