Resources and Toolkits for Organizing and Advocacy


Resources and Toolkits for Organizing and Advocacy
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Community Environmental Health Resource Center (CEHRC) - This project of the Alliance, developed in collaboration with local leaders, was based on strategies that use documentation of hazards in high-risk homes as a key tool/tactic in organizing and advocacy campaigns to spur action to control these hazards.

CEHRC's organizing and advocacy tools:

Action Plan to Make High-Risk Housing Lead-Safe - Recommendations drawn from innovative approaches that community groups and enlightened government agencies are now pursuing across the country.

Advancing Lead Safety through CDBG and HOME - Written for housing and community development agencies, community development corporations, and contractors doing paint repair and rehabilitation projects funded by federal CDBG and HOME programs. Explains recent shifts in approach to making housing lead-safe, identifies opportunities to protect children from lead poisoning, highlights important choices in work practices and planning considerations for properties undergoing rehab, and describes how to effectively utilize federal resources to carry out the requirements of HUD’s lead-safety rule.

Alliance Surveys of CLPPP Dust Wipe Testing Services - Summary of 2003 survey results.
Analysis of the Housing Stock [PDF] - Guide to the US housing stock’s lead hazard risk data, including a section that discusses the policy implications of the data.

A Brief Guide to Options for Improving Medicaid Lead Screening [PDF] - Rationale for focusing screening efforts on Medicaid-enrolled children, and how to target and monitor screening for highest risk children.

Calculator: What Does Lead Poisoning Cost Your City or State [Excel] - This is a handy tool developed by Katrina Smith Korfmacher at the Environmental Health Sciences Center, Univeristy of Rochester, that allows state or local jurisdictions to estimate the public costs of lead poisoning using information on medical, special education, and juvenile justice costs, as well as losses in future earnings for lead poisoned children. This tool was used in calculating the costs to New York and documented in the report "Long-term costs of lead poisoning: How much can New York save by stopping lead? [PDF]".

Code Enforcement Strategies - In order for housing codes to combat landlord neglect and improve conditions in distressed communities, the codes must be coupled with strong enforcement. This document explains a variety of strategies that may be used to improve the effectiveness of, and integrate lead safety into, housing code enforcement.

Community Tool Kit: An Advocate's Tool for Improving Lead Screening in Your Community - How to ensure that government screening programs address the needs of the highest risk children in a community.

How to Estimate Risk Of Lead Hazards Using Findings from the National Survey of Lead - The first step towards solving a problem is recognizing its existence. This interactive tool allows users to estimate the number of housing units in their city or county in four risk categories: Priority Hazards, Some Lead Hazards, Lead Paint but No Lead Hazards, and Lead-Free. A data table and corresponding color pie chart reflect the estimated size of the risk categories for the locale.

HUD’s Consolidated Plan Process - How jurisdictions that receive funds from HUD’s CDBG, HOME, and Homeless Assistance programs develop federally-required comprehensive housing plans and how to use this process to promote lead safety and healthy homes.

Innovative Strategies for Addressing Lead Hazards in Distressed and Marginal Housing [PDF] - Descriptions of 18 innovative projects and programs for lead poisoning prevention in distressed and marginal communities throughout the country.
Lead Sampling/Clearance Technician Statutes and Regulations - An annotated table describing the statutes and regulations that govern the lead sampling/clearance technician discipline in the ten states that license such lead professionals.
Making Lead-Safe Housing the Central Focus of Strategic Plans to Eliminate Childhood Lead Poisoning [PDF] - Guide for programs preparing strategic plans to end childhood lead poisoning by 2010 as part of the requirements of CDC's Lead Poisoning Prevention Grants program. Recommendations for protecting high-risk communities, building capacity for lead-safe work practices, expanding resources for prevention, and encouraging effective action by property owners.

Making the Most of the Lead Hazard Disclosure Law Tool Kit - This tool kit contains strategies and information to help motivate landlords to increase private sector investments in lead hazard control by way of stepped-up enforcement of the federal disclosure law.

Promising Strategies for Making the Most of the Federal Lead Disclosure Law - Seven ways to use the federal disclosure law to leverage action to control lead hazards in high-risk housing.