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HIGHLIGHT
Annual blood lead testing reports sent
to 2,000 Medicaid providers in June. See
Blood Lead
Testing.
UPCOMING EVENTS
Healthy Homes, Healthy
Kids, Healthy You Fair
August
27
Milwaukee, Wis.
(See Education)
Wisconsin Childhood Lead
Poisoning Elimination Implementation and
Oversight Committee
Meeting
September 13
Madison,
Wis.
(See Lead Elimination
Plan)
National Lead Poisoning
Prevention Week
October
19-23
(See Advocacy and
Public Policy)
RECALL ALERT
Learn
more about products recalled due to
unsafe lead content.
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Kids unLEADed is a
publication of Children's Health Alliance of
Wisconsin on behalf of the state's efforts to
eliminate childhood lead poisoning.
Check
out the Alliance's
website.
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PARTNERSHIP
EFFORTS
Sixteenth Street Community Health
Center Honored for
Work to Combat Lead
Exposure
In April, the Health
Commissioner of Milwaukee, Bevan Baker, honored
Sixteenth Street Community Health Center (SSCHC)'s
Environmental Health Department for its efforts to
reduce lead exposure on Milwaukee's south side. In
accepting the Commissioner's Community Health
Award of Excellence, John Bartkowski, chief
executive officer at SSCHC, said, "Since the
project began more than 15 years ago, our...
reduction in lead poisoning on the south side
[went] from nearly 40% of children under age 6 to
less than 4%." Read
more.
Congress School Kids Learn about Lead from
Puppets
After school in June and August, kids
and their parents from Congress Year Round School
in Milwaukee toured a fire truck, met police
officers and learned about lead poisoning and
other home health hazards through a variety of
activities: a puppet show, a guessing game and a
healthy homes wheel. Read
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ADVOCACY AND
PUBLIC POLICY
Advocate for Kids
During National Lead Poisoning Prevention
Week
National
Lead Poisoning Prevention Week is October 23-29.
Numerous tools
are available on the Lead-Safe Wisconsin
website that
provide ideas and resources to reach out in your
community to educate people on the dangers of
childhood lead poisoning and ways to prevent lead
exposure.
Materials
include:
National
Lead Poisoning Prevention Week toolkit.
Lead
Free Kids Ad Campaign.
Text4baby
Message Service.
Sesame
Workshop Lead Away DVD toolkit.
Renovate
Right toolkit.
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FUNDING AND HEALTHY HOUSING
Revisions to RRP
Rule Announced
The Renovate, Repair and Painting
Rule revisions were issued by the
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in August,
2011. Joy Finch of Greenway Technical College
prepared a summary of the revisions including the
changes proposed during an open comment period by
members of the public and the resulting decisions
by EPA to either include or not include those
changes in the revised rule. Read
more.
Celebrity Conference Guests
Join the Healthy Homes
Discussion
The 2011 National Healthy
Homes Conference, a federally-sponsored event, was
held in Denver in June, bringing together a wide
range of sectors to better coordinate efforts in
making housing healthy, safe and environmentally
sustainable. Special celebrity guest
speakers, Steve Thomas, star of Renovation
Nation, and Mike Holmes, of Holmes on
Homes and Holmes Inspection, provided
podcast interviews about healthy homes.
Hear
more.
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 EDUCATION
Student Nurse Develops
Lead Poisoning Prevention Materials for
Schools
Student nurse Anne Hall served an
internship at the Pierce County Public Health
Department to learn more about public health and
school nursing practices. She developed an
educational presentation for elementary school
children about lead poisoning and created
accompanying print materials to reinforce the
messages. Read
more.
Helping Educators
Understand the Effects of Lead on School
Performance and Behavior
Connecticut
Children's Medical Center and University of
Connecticut teamed up to develop lead awareness
online training to enhance educator's ability to
respond to the needs of children harmed by lead.
The series, Lead Poisoning: Limiting the
Ability to Learn, carries separate modules for
classroom educators, administrators, health
services personnel and child daycare facility
staff. Learn
more.
Healthy Homes, Healthy Kids, Healthy
You Fair to Be Held in
Milwaukee
Families are invited to come to a fun
and educational health fair with a focus on health
in the home on Saturday, August 27 at the
Washington Park Senior Center. This event will
piggy back on the Run Back to School 5K Fun Run
Event sponsored by Milwaukee Public Schools
(MPS). Read
more.
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 BLOOD LEAD
TESTING
Annual Blood Lead Testing Reports Sent
to 2,000 Health Care Providers
2,000 Medicaid providers
received the 6th annual Blood Lead Testing Report
in June, 2011. Because children enrolled in Medicaid are
at greater risk of lead poisoning, they are
required to be tested for lead at both ages 1 and
2. Children who have not been tested by age 3
should be tested at least once before age
6. For children seen in a clinic, the
report gives the Medicaid provider the blood lead
testing rates. Learn
more.
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LEAD
ELIMINATION PLAN
Statewide IOC is Counting on
You
Members of the Wisconsin Childhood Lead
Poisoning Elimination Plan Implementation and
Oversight Committee (IOC) reaffirmed their
commitment to eliminate lead poisoning at the May
IOC meeting. While funding resources are changing
and dollar amounts reduced, education, public
policy and action must remain in the forefront. At
the next meeting on Tuesday, September 13 in
Madison, the IOC members will discuss efforts to
continue blood lead testing,
education, lead-safe work practices and
partnership development.
A key agenda
item for discussion at the September 13 IOC
meeting will be to continue moving ahead with the
transition from childhood lead poisoning to
addressing other home health hazards. Discussion
will include building a
strategic plan, framing housing-related health and safety
issues and the need to build collaboration between
existing and new efforts.
For more
information on joining the IOC contact Margie
Coons, Program Manager, Wisconsin Childhood
Lead Poisoning Prevention Program, at (608)
267-0473.
Learn
more .
Award in
recognition of Dr. Kitty's legacy was given to
former committee co-chair Tom Sieger
On May 10, Karen Ordinans, executive
director of Children's Health Alliance of
Wisconsin and co-chair of the Wisconsin Childhood
Lead Poisoning Elimination Implementation and
Oversight Committee (IOC), presented the first
"Dr. Kitty's Legacy Lead-Safe for Kids Sake
Recognition" to Tom Sieger. Sieger served as
co-chair for the IOC with Dr. Kitty through 2007,
when she succumbed to cancer. He continued to
serve as IOC co-chair through 2010 with Ordinans.
Learn
more.
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