Training and Technical Assistance Projects
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Home-Based Childcare Lead Safety Program
Michigan Department of Community Health
ICF/EPA Lead Certification Training Course Revisions
Grace Hill Neighborhood Health Centers
LeadSafeHomes.info
CDC Case Management Training
Case management policies for lead-poisoned children
NY Attorney General's Office
Lead Poisoning Case Management: Training for Public Health Practitioners
Designing and Adminstering a Lead Hazard Control Grant Program: Lessons Learned

Home-Based Childcare Lead Safety Program
From 2003 to 2005, the Rochester and Syracuse, NY Home-Based Child Care Lead Safety Program created 25 healthy and safe child care homes that minimized the risks of unintentional injury and lead poisoning, while improving energy efficiency and indoor air quality.  The pilot, funded through a $930,789 grant from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Operation Lead Elimination Action Program and over $346,000 in leveraged public and private funds, was intended to investigate the obstacles to serving this client base and provide a model and document templates to facilitate replication in other communities. Click here for more information about this project.

Michigan Department of Community Health – Strategic Planning Technical Assistance to Flint, Hamtramck and Highland Park, Michigan (Completed September 30, 2005)
In June 2005, MDCH engaged Solutions to provide lead poisoning primary prevention strategic planning technical assistance to the cities of Flint, Hamtramck and Highland Park, Michigan. Solutions work included an analytical review of the childhood lead poisoning problem, collecting key data, interviewing local stakeholders, preparing a needs assessment, and developing a baseline organizational structure and plan in each city capable of supporting a viable, sustainable primary prevention and lead hazard control program. Solutions made three field trips to each city, with Hamtramck and Highland Park being considered one location since they are both surrounded by Detroit and located next to each other. As part of its last visit to Hamtramck and Highland Park, Solutions helped initiate and then assisted in moderating a local Lead-Safe Advisory Council Summit and Forum meeting. 

ICF/EPA Lead Certification Training Course Revisions (Completed June 13, 2005)
In March 2005, ICF Consulting, Inc. (ICF), under a Work Assignment issued by EPA, engaged Solutions to assist in updating and revising EPA's model lead certification training courses to ensure consistency with applicable regulations, reduce overlap between the courses, and improve their usefulness to trainers and students. Solutions prepared draft revised chapters in the Lead-Based Paint Inspector, Lead-Based Paint Risk Assessor and Lead-Based Paint Abatement Supervisor courses. Solutions also reviewed and commented on other chapters assigned for revision to ICF's staff and other subcontractors.

Grace Hill Neighborhood Health Centers – Technical Assistance Under its HUD Lead Grant (Completed November 30, 2004)
In August 2004, Grace Hill Neighborhood Health Centers (Grace Hill) of St. Louis, Missouri engaged Healthy Housing Solutions (Solutions) to provide technical assistance related to its new HUD-funded Lead Prevention and Remediation Grant. Solutions assisted Grace Hill in developing a construction strategy for lead hazard control in housing units, prepared master lead hazard evaluation and reduction work specifications, prepared model contract documents for use by the grant program and its local applicants, and assisted in developing a risk management and insurance plan, including identification and evaluation of insurance carriers offering lead liability insurance. 

LeadSafeHomes.Info
As part of its efforts to eliminate childhood lead poisoning by 2010, NCHH worked with the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to develop an interactive, web-based database called www.leadsafehomes.info. The site provides easy access to address-specific information about lead hazards in housing, and to information about the prevalence of childhood lead poisoning at the community level. The system was piloted in the cities of Boston, Baltimore, and Chicago and is a model for other cities and states interested in using their local data to facilitate lead hazard control, outreach, and enforcement efforts.

CDC Case Management Training
This CDC-funded national training project will focus on the key messages of the 2002 Recommendations for Managing Elevated Blood Lead Levels Among Children and help case managers and programs identify strengths, weaknesses and gaps in current implementation in order to motivate change. A total of 380 individuals have been trained to date. Program staff have developed the pilot training and delivered the training six times to 350 plus students. Evaluations have been very positive and CDC has agreed to change the basic training format from one very long day to two-shorter days as a result of program input. The project is funded through Battelle; an additional $60,000 has been recently allocated to conduct an evaluation of the training.
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Case Management Policies for Lead-Poisoned Children
Case management is critical to ensure follow-up for lead-poisoned children that is focused on improving health status and assuring that a lead-poisoned child is no longer exposed to lead hazards. In 1998, The Center and The Alliance to End Childhood Lead Poisoning surveyed the case management and environmental investigation policies of the 50 states and the District of Columbia. The resulting publication, Another Link in the Chain, provides a summary of the current state programs and discusses ways that programs can be more effective. An update, Another Link in the Chain Update, based on a survey in 2000, is also available online. Click here for more information and to download both books.

NY Attorney General's Office
This project, funded by through a grant from the state Attorney General's Office, will focus on providing technical assistance to the Cities of Rochester and Syracuse. We anticipate serving as a technical consultant to the Rochester Coalition to Prevent Lead Poisoning and assisting the Rochester Coalition in organizing a facilitated workshop of key area stakeholder representatives. We are designing a voluntary lead compliance handbook for property owners and policy makers to summarize a variety of lead hazard control strategies. The handbook will indicate the cost of the strategies and the longevity of the treatments so that property owners can select the treatments that best suit their needs. We will also reach out to other cities in the state to provide technical assistance on organizing a strategic planning process, and select two with which we will work by interviewing 5-10 key stakeholder representatives in each city to identify critical problems, barriers and potential solutions, and creating summary documents for each city with the results of our research and interviewing activities, and a set of recommendations for structuring a formal strategic planning process in the future. Finally, we will deliver up to two presentations of the renovation, remodeling and rehabilitation lead-safe work practices training course, distribute up to 75 sets of related training materials and provide technical assistance on lead liability and insurance.

Designing and Adminstering a Lead Hazard Control Grant Program: Lessons Learned
In 1994, the National Center surveyed thirteen jurisdictions that received HUD Lead Hazard Control Grants regarding how they designed and administered their lead hazard control grant programs.

The programs surveyed had been operational for at least two years, during which time the program managers and staff had learned a good deal about successful and unsuccessful strategies in operating a lead hazard control program. The survey resulted in a report that catalogued the lessons that the grantees had learned.
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