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Building Awareness and Public Support

Building Capacity for Lead Safety

Collaborations, Partnerships, and Incentives

Financing and Subsidies

Lead Safety and Healthy Homes Standards

Targeting High Risk Homes

Using Code Enforcement and Other Systems

 

 

Appendices

 

 

Building Blocks Full Text [PDF]

 

 

CDC-Funded Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Programs

 

 

Produced by the Alliance for Healthy Homes and the Lead Poisoning Prevention Branch of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

 

 

 

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

 


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Building Capacity for Lead Safety

 

Numerous opportunities exist for integrating lead safety tools, knowledge, and intervention activities into other delivery systems, trades, and stakeholder communities to increase the effectiveness and extent of lead safety efforts. Activities such as involving and engaging community members and other “new” stakeholders, increasing worker capabilities, developing technical expertise, and expanding existing delivery systems all serve to create and support stronger systems that support prevention.

Add Lead Safety to Weatherization Programs and Practices

 

Assess and Address Multiple Hazards Simultaneously

 

Broadcast Lead Safety Training Widely

 

Ensure that Do-It-Yourself Rehabbers are Trained

 

Equip Community-Based Organizations and Service Providers

 

Equip Day Laborers to Work Safely

 

Expand Weatherization and Rehab Programs to Address Lead Safety

 

Hold Regular Lead-Safe Work Practice Trainings

 

Provide Technical Assistance to Property Owners

 

Train and Employ Low-Income Community Residents in Hazard Control