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EPA Lead Program Grant Fact Sheet
EPA's National Community-Based Lead Grant Program
EPA grants are helping communities with older housing reduce childhood lead poisoning. The funds enable communities to educate those at risk, provide lead-awareness training and develop local ordinances aimed at lead abatement.
The National Community-Based Lead Outreach and Training Grants are aimed at promoting efforts to prevent or reduce childhood lead poisoning. In 2007 the Agency awarded more than $3.1 million in grants to fund this ambitious program. 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. Projects supported by these grant funds are an important part of this ongoing effort -- and we are seeing their effects. By 2002, the number of U.S. children with elevated blood levels had dropped to 310,000 from 13.5 million in 1978, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Alliance for Healthy Homes
EPA has selected the Alliance for Healthy Homes in Washington, D.C., for a National Community-Based Lead Outreach and Training Grant.
The Alliance will partner with the Fresno Interfaith Refugee Ministries of Fresno, CA; Home Headquarters of Onondaga County, NY; Rural Opportunities, of rural NY; and Manna, of Washington, D.C., to provide lead awareness education to low-income populations in their communities.
The project will:
- Deliver lead awareness education,
- Provide lead-safe work practices training, and
- Develop ordinances to address substandard housing conditions such as lead-based paint.
The grants will help these four local community-based organizations that serve low-income populations to:
- Expand awareness, training and infrastructure,
- Ensure that persons who perform painting and remodeling work know how to work safely around painted surfaces, and
- Bring lead awareness to tenants, homeowners and service delivery networks where such information is needed.
This work will add value in communities that, in combination, have more pre-1950 homes (285,000) than any of 25 states and all but seven U.S. counties.
For more information about EPA's Lead Program, visit www.epa.gov/lead or call the National Lead Information Center at 1-800-424-LEAD.