News

• Home lead test kits unreliable - Consumer Protection Safety Commission (CPSC) staff study.
• Lead exposure and violent crime.
• The United States Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) has awarded a $1.9 million grant to Sheboygan, Wisconsin, to help make 120 older homes lead hazard-safe. View article.
• TOXIC Legacy: Despite a lead-based residential paint ban since 1978, serious risks to our children still remain. For many young children living in older homes, peeling and chipping paint on their walls continue to pose a threat. This USA TODAY article describes the sources of lead paint hazards and ways to prevent childhood lead poisoning, with an emphasis on replacing old wooden painted window frames, before a child is poisoned. Includes a video presentation on lead poison hazards and medical treatment.

Documents

• A Strange Ignorance: The Role of Lead Poisoning in Failing Schools - All chapters can be accessed via this Arizona School Boards Association, Inc. Web site. Please note that all chapters are copyrighted and written permission is required to reproduce any part or all of the chapters.
• American Academy of Pediatrics - recommendations for protecting children from lead in products.

• Testing for lead in consumer items for children.

• The Weight of Lead Effects Add Up In Adults - Article on the effects of lead in adults from Environmental Health Perspectives (Volume 115, Number 1, January, 2007).

• Why is Lead Still Poisoning Our Children - Washingtonian
  Magazine article - August 2006.

• Windows of Opportunity: Lead Poisoning Prevention, Housing Affordability and Energy Conservation - Article validating that window replacement will result in substantial reduction in lead poisoning. Housing Policy Debate (Volume 17, Issue 1).

In-home Environmental Lead Hazard Testing and
Blood Lead Testing for your Child

• Wisconsin's Local Public Health Departments can assist you in identifying places to obtain an in-home environmental lead hazard test and a blood lead test for your child. Public Health Departments also provide follow-up services to lead poisoned children and their families. Use this link to find your community's Public Health Department.

Legacy of Lead

• The Legacy of Lead Report - provides valuable details about using our current knowledge on the causes of lead poisoning, along with an understanding of community housing, to focus our efforts and eliminate childhood lead poisoning. View report summary.

Public Policy Issues

• Priority Public Policy Recommendations for Wisconsin 2009 – 2010: The Wisconsin Childhood Lead Poisoning Elimination Plan Implementation and Oversight Committee has developed and endorsed a set of public policy proposals. These policy recommendations have been designed to provide communities and agencies with additional tools and programs to help eliminate childhood lead poisoning by 2010. View summary.

Tools

• The Lead-Safe Wisconsin Web site provides updated statistical information on progress made in reducing childhood lead poisoning statewide and by county from 2001-06.

Wisconsin Childhood Lead Poisoning Elimination Plan 2010

• Wisconsin Childhood Lead Poisoning Elimination Plan 2010.

• Wisconsin Childhood Lead Poisoning Elimination Plan 2010
  Summary.

Web Links

Alliance for Healthy Homes

Centers for Disease Control

Children's Hospital of       Wisconsin

City of Racine CLEAR out Lead Plan

Healthy Homes and Lead Hazard Control - U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development

Lead-Safe Wisconsin

Milwaukee Public Health Department: Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Program

National Center for Healthy Housing

Wisconsin County Health Rankings for 2007 -
Full Report - Summary