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Education and outreach workers Using the media Lead Poisoning Prevention Media Outreach Kit

Children

A bilingual (English and Spanish) lead-safety picture book for very young children

 

Paper copies of Henry and Fred Learn about Lead/Enrique y Federico aprenden sobre el plomo

  A lead-safety curriculum for grades 1-3

English version:
Adventures of the Lead Busters Club
Spanish version:
Aventuras del Club de los Detectives del Plomo
Paper copies of Adventures of the Lead Busters Club/Aventuras del Club de los Detectives del Plomo
Please specify whether you need English or Spanish.

  A lead-safety curriculum for Native American children in grades 3-5

Paper copies of How Mother Bear Taught the Children about Lead

  An interactive electronic game for Native American students in grade 6-8

Click to download a copy of

Lead Tracker: The Quest for Lead Safety. [Note: This is a large file and make take considerable time to download. We do not recommend downloading if you are using a dial-up connection.]

Click to request a CD version of Lead Tracker.

Click to download a copy of the

teacher's guide to Lead Tracker


Childcare

providers

Lead awareness
Lead-safety activities for young children

English version
What You Should Know about Lead Poisoning: A Manual and Resource Guide for Childcare Workers

Felt figures


Spanish version:
Lo que debe saber acerca de la intoxicacíon por plomo: Manual de recuros para los responsables de las guarderías infantiles

Felt figures

  Lead recalls Federal online resource for recalls

Parents or

guardians

Protecting a family from lead poisoning

Lead in Your Home: A Parent's Reference Guide

 

 

Lead-safe work practices when painting, remodeling, renovating, or maintaining a home built before 1978

Reducing Lead Hazards When Remodeling Your Home

Don't Spread Lead: A Do-It-Yourselfer's Guide to Lead-Safe Painting, Repair, and Home Improvement (booklet)

Don't Spread Lead: A Do-It-Yourselfer's Guide to Preventing Lead Poisoning by Working Lead-Safe (video, in English and Spanish) (click to request a copy of the CD)

  Foods that can help fight lead's damaging effects Fight Lead Poisoning with a Healthy Diet
  Lead recalls Federal online resource for recalls

Property owners, painters, maintenance personnel, and remodelers Lead-safe work practices when painting, remodeling, renovating, or maintaining a home built before 1978

Reducing Lead Hazards When Remodeling Your Home

Lead Paint Safety: A Field Guide for Painting, Home Maintenance, and Renovation Work

Joint HUD/EPA Curriculum Lead Safety for Remodeling, Repair and Painting

  Testing for lead in paint, dust, soil Testing Your Home For Lead

Volunteers in

painting and

housing

rehabilitation

projects

A video showing lead-safe work practices when painting, remodeling, renovating, or maintaining a home built before 1978

Volunteers Opening Doors: The Five Keys to Lead Safety

Click to view the video online at the Habitat for Humanity website



Concerned professionals and

the public

Lead statutes across the United States

National Conference of State Legislatures, Lead Statutes Database

  A 2004 summary and analysis of laws in New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Vermont, Rhode Island, and Maryland; descriptions of strategies and coalitions involved in the process, accounts of the effectiveness of these laws, and a discussion of the use of litigation to change laws State Legislation Addressing Prevention of Childhood Lead Poisoning: A Policy Report for the Greater Manchester (NH) Partners
Against Lead Poisoning
  Lead in products

Consumer Product Safety Commission

 

2003 lead screening rates for children under 6 years old, across the United States

Documents courtesy of the Connecticut Department of Public Health, using data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Table

Graph

Map

  EPA publications National Environmental Publications Information System

The Lead Problem


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