- Develop programs and policies to prevent childhood lead poisoning.
- Educate the public and health-care providers about childhood lead poisoning.
- Provide funding to state and local health departments to determine the extent of childhood lead poisoning by screening children for elevated blood lead levels, helping to ensure that lead-poisoned infants and children receive medical and environmental follow-up, and developing neighborhood-based efforts to prevent childhood lead poisoning.
- Support research to determine the effectiveness of prevention efforts at federal, state, and local levels.
- Funded nearly 60 childhood lead poisoning prevention programs to develop, implement, and evaluate lead poisoning prevention activities;
- Provided technical assistance to support the development of state and local lead screening plans;
- Fostered agreements between state and local health departments and state Medicaid agencies to link surveillance and Medicaid data;
- Provided training to public health professionals through CDC’s Lead Poisoning Prevention Training Center;
- Supported the formation of collaborative relationships between CDC’s funded partners and other lead poisoning prevention organizations and agencies (e.g., community-based, nonprofit, and housing groups);
- Developed the Childhood Blood Lead Surveillance System through which 46 states currently report data to CDC;
- Expanded public health laboratory capacity in states to analyze blood and environmental samples and to ensure quality, timely, and accurate analysis of results; and
- Published targeted screening and case management guidelines which provide health departments and health care providers with standards to identify and manage children with elevated blood lead levels.
- Identification and control of lead paint hazards;
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Identification
and care for children with elevated blood lead levels;
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Surveillance
of elevated blood lead levels in children to monitor progress; and
- Research to further improve childhood lead poisoning prevention methods.
- Increase the proportion of Medicaid-enrolled children screened for lead
- Ensure appropriate management of children with elevated blood lead levels
- Expand initiatives to educate public health professionals, parents of at-risk children, and the public about lead poisoning
- Support innovative approaches to identify children at risk for lead exposure and ensure their housing is lead-safe before children are exposed
- Improve the state-based blood lead surveillance system to determine populations at risk and direct intervention efforts
- Conduct research on innovative methods to identify and reach children at risk for lead poisoning
- Provide international leadership in lead poisoning prevention
- Develop and/or continue to implement childhood lead poisoning elimination plans
- Target resources to those children at highest risk for lead poisoning
- Develop or enhance surveillance systems to monitor childhood lead poisoning prevention efforts
- Assure primary prevention activities among pregnant women and those families with children at high risk for lead poisoning
- Assure timely and appropriate case management of children with elevated blood lead levels
- Develop or enhance strategic partnerships with organizations and agencies involved in environmental and child health activities
- Coordinate with organizations and agencies involved in lead-based paint hazard reduction activities and development of protective policy
- Evaluate programmatic impact on childhood lead poisoning prevention efforts
- CDC Procurement and Grants Office (PGO) - PGO is responsible for the administration of federal procurements and grants. This site contains information about grant and cooperative agreement funding opportunities throughout CDC.
- CDC Grants Forms – This site contains links to on-line forms.
- Federal Register- 2003, 2001, 2000, 1999 – The link to the Federal Register. Past federal cooperative agreements were published in the Federal Register. Beginning 10/1/05, grant announcements will no longer be published in the Federal Register.
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Grants.gov - This site allows organizations to electronically find
and apply for competitive grant opportunities from all Federal
grant-making agencies.
The Lead Contamination Control Act of 1988 authorized the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to initiate program efforts to eliminate childhood lead poisoning in the United States. As a result of this Act, the CDC Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Branch was created, with primary responsibility to:
Since its inception in 1990, the CDC childhood lead poisoning prevention effort has:
One of the goals of Healthy People 2010 is the elimination of
childhood lead poisoning as a public health problem.
CDC, HUD, EPA, and other agencies have developed a federal interagency strategy to achieve this goal by 2010. The key elements of this interagency strategy include:
Eliminating Childhood Lead Poisoning: A Federal Strategy Targeting Lead Paint Hazards
Consistent with the interagency strategy, CDC developed the following objectives
CDC provides funding to state and local health departments to do the following:
Funded programs are expected to serve as catalysts and models for the development of non-funded programs and activities in other states and communities. Further, funded programs should create community awareness of the adverse health effects associated with childhood lead poisoning (e.g., among community and business leaders, the medical community, parents, educators, and property owners).
Health departments are expected to work with interagency and community-based organizations that support the Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Program’s agenda. These organizations may represent the interests of public health, the medical community, housing owners and organizations, business, labor, parents, and residents of the community. The organizations may include, but are not limited to, neighborhood groups, churches, fraternal organizations, civic organizations, local businesses, and financial institutions that have a vested interest in the viability of the community. Community organizations should be encouraged and supported in their efforts to help with program components such as follow-up, education, and hazard remediation.
In 2003, CDC awarded $31.7 million to 42 state and local health departments to develop and implement comprehensive lead poisoning prevention efforts. To contact a childhood lead poisoning prevention program (CLPPP) in your area please visit CLPP Programs.
Cooperative Agreement AnnouncementThe NCEH RFA EHO6-602 (formerly RFA AA244), Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Program (CLPPP) has been published. The deadline for applying for fiscal year (FY) 2006-20011 funds is February 21, 2006. You can view the FY 2006-2011 cooperative agreement announcement by clicking the link provided. You can access the online application at http://www.grants.gov.
CDC Project Officers provide assistance to all funded Childhood Lead
Poisoning Prevention Programs (CLPPP) on the design, development,
management, and evaluation of their lead poisoning prevention
programs. To contact the Project Officer for your CLPPP, please call
(770) 488-3300.
Mailing address for all Project Officers:
Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Branch
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
4770 Buford Highway NE (Mail stop F-60)
Atlanta, GA 30341
Surveillance Technical Officers
CDC Surveillance Technical Officers provide assistance to all funded CLPPPs on the design, development, management, and evaluation of their surveillance systems. Additionally, they provide epidemiologic expertise in lead poisoning prevention applied research and interventions. To contact the Surveillance Technical Officer for your CLPPP, please call (770) 488-3300.
Mailing address for all Technical Officers:
Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Branch
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
4770 Buford Highway NE (Mail stop F-60)
Atlanta, GA 30341
Last updated: 02/05/2008
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