Get the Lead Out-Focus On Grant Initiative

The U.S. Health Service has stated that lead poisoning is "the most devastating environmental disease of young children."  The American Academy of Pediatrics has noted that lead poisoning is "the most preventable disease affecting children in the U.S."  It is estimated that there is lead paint in over 5.7 million homes in the U.S.  Each year there are over 200 deaths from lead encephalopathy , over 800 children have permanent brain damage.  One to two million children in the U.S. have lead poisoning.

Objectives for the Initiative

Our objectives are to coordinate and execute a successful campaign to: 1) identify homes that have lead poisoning and catalog information regarding children that dwell in those homes; 2) use our Youth Corp ,(along with adult volunteers), to help conduct the survey and catalog information; 3) conduct lead test in the homes surveyed; 4) use (church owned Gospel radio station) radio to inundate the air ways with information about lead poisoning and the survey being conducted; 5) compile test results and send to lab for analysis; 6) second-year goal is to go back to each home and inform occupants of results and get every child under six years of age tested that live in homes found to be lead poisoned.