Designing and Administering Lead Hazard Control Grant Programs:
Lessons Learned Update

Evaluating Lessons Learned from HUD Lead Hazard Control Grantees

In 1997, the National Center for Healthy Housing (NCHH) published "Designing and Administering Lead Hazard Control Programs: Lessons Learned To Date" to capture what HUD grantees had learned about establishing and administering their programs. The report was intended to be a "work in progress" (NCHH, 1997). In 2004, Howard University Center for Urban Progress (HUCUP) contracted with NCHH to update the 1997 report. The 2006 "Designing and Administering Lead Hazard Control Programs: Lessons Learned Update" report emphasizes issues affecting lead hazard control programs with a primary prevention focus This report is part of a larger HUD-funded Lead Technical Study being undertaken by Howard University to support outreach, education, and prevention in Washington, D.C. through community-based participatory research approach.

NCHH identified 11 interested, experienced grantees for interviews on topics essential to lead hazard control programming: screening; eligibility and intake; financing; relocation; contractor availability, retention, and cost; production; and outreach and education.

A topic-specific interview tool was designed to identify and record unique program decisions and applications specific to the area of interest. The interview tool included a series of prompts to collect information on important linkages and other matters directly related to the topic. Grantees were given the opportunity to review and comment on the NCHH summary of each interview.

A brief review of the available literature, as well as lessons learned through NCHH's more than ten years of direct work with lead grantees, also informed this report. Four evaluation studies, one journal article, and the HUD Office of Healthy Homes and Lead Hazard Control's website served as key reference documents. Although there was some overlap among the grantees participating in the four studies noted above and this study, grantees from all across the country were represented.

	You may download the 39-page Lessons Learned Update report (10-29-06) in Acrobat (pdf) format (230kb)
	You may download the 46-page original Lessons Learned (03/01/1999) document in Acrobat (pdf) format.(137kb)

Lead Hazard Control Grant Programs: Lessons Learned Update

CDC National Healthy Homes Training Center and Network

CDC National Lead Poisoning Prevention Training Center

Healthy Rebuilding Demonstration Project in New Orleans

Technical Assistance and Strategic Planning Initiative

Identifying Methods to Evaluate and Reduce Lead Hazards

IPM Education Program

Delivery of a Radon Education Program

EPA Building Public Health Professional Capacity