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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.
Omaha Healthy Kids Alliance
EPA has selected the Omaha Healthy Kids Alliance for a National Community-Based Lead Outreach and Training Grant. The Omaha Healthy Kids Alliance will partner with The Coalition to End Childhood Lead Poisoning to provide lead-safe work practices training, lead safety and resource education, build local capacity by creating a lead safety workforce and launch the planning and implementation process for city ordinances and permits.
The grant activities will include brochure distribution to families, home visits, presentations to school children, and several plays to spread lead awareness within the community. Training will involve providing lead-safe work practices training to the community, including the organization "100 Black Men." Ordinance development will involve developing ordinances for property owners, contractors, and blood-lead testing for young children. This project will empower the community to become more active and knowledgeable in lead poisoning prevention.