Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Week was October 23-29, 2016. We created a new Lead-Free Kids for a Healthy Future (P-00554-2016; PDF, 3.4 MB) toolkit that includes strategies to raise awareness in your communities about how to protect children from lead poisoning and ensure their future potential.
Lead exposure in young children can cause reduced IQ and attention span, learning disabilities, developmental delays, and a range of other health and behavioral effects. Most exposures occur in homes or child cares centers built before 1978 from chipping and peeling lead-based paint and the lead-tainted dust it creates or where lead hazards have been created through renovation done without using lead-safe work practices.
Prevention of lead poisoning can be accomplished by eliminating lead-based paint hazards before children are exposed. Wisconsin's goal is to eliminate this disease by making Wisconsin's housing lead-safe, and by improving the detection and treatment of lead poisoning in children.
Lead Certification Unit staff can be reached using the information in this listing. If you would like to get in touch with the Wisconsin Childhood Lead Program, please view our WCLPPP Contact Listing.
Read below about (1) childhood lead poisoning prevention and (2) lead-renovation through contractor education, certification and licensing.
Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Information
Learn more about the connection of lead exposure of young children and the response to children who have been exposed to lead. Included is research on how lead exposure affects young children as they age and attend elementary school.
Contractor Certification and Licensing Information
Learn more about the Wisconsin Lead-Safe Renovation rule, recognized lead paint test kits, renovator questions and complaints, and how-to videos showing lead-safe work practices.
