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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.
University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
EPA has selected the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) for a National Community-Based Lead Outreach and Training Grant. The UAMS will partner with: 1) Home Instruction for Parents of Preschool Youngsters (HIPPY-USA Arkansas), 2) Arkansas Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (Arkansas-ACORN) representing the ACORN Institute, 3) Arkansas Department of Health (ADH), Center for Local Public Health, 4) Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality (ADEQ), and 5) Arkansas Department of Human Services (ADHS) to provide lead awareness, lead training and model municipal legislation to five needy communities in Arkansas.
The UAMS' Arkansas People Participating in Lead Education Program (APPLE) is a collaborative effort between six Arkansas state, national, and community organizations to provide lead awareness, lead training, and model municipal legislation to five needy communities in Arkansas (counties of Jefferson, Pulaski (two cities), Phillips and Lee). APPLE will organize and host five lead awareness workshops and five lead-safe work practices training seminars to many in need in these communities. APPLE will also spend a year working with city officials to implement municipal legislation encouraging dissemination of information on lead-safe work practices to contractors and individuals seeking permits to renovate at-risk structures in these communities.