(Barbara Kelly) We who have worked in the childhood lead poisoning prevention and environmental health fields can sometimes feels as if we’ve ‘seen it all’ when it comes to the possibilities for potential harm to children from lead.  But, never say ‘never’! The Washington Post recently ran an article in their Health Section, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/23/AR2009032301764.html This [...]

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(Barbara Kelly) Say Hello to the Future! CLEARCorps (CC) is always interested in people and organizations that share similar goals. In this case, it is an organization called Green For All (www.greenforall.org). I recently attended the Voices for National Service and Corps Network Awards Presentation event in Washington DC, where I heard Julian McQueen speak [...]

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(Chris Johnson) On March 16, 2009, Jane Genova, author of  “Law And More Deconstructing What Happens In Law” chatted with CLEARCorps/USA Excutive Director about recent TV shows featuring lead-focused story lines. Here is what Sue had to say. “As for your question about who or what could be pushing the featuring of lead issues on [...]

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(Chris Johnson) Is it just me, or are others wondering what 2010 is going to bring in terms of the goal to eliminate childhood lead poisoning? Since the 1970s, we’ve made admirable strides in reducing the number of children with elevated blood lead levels and that is a very good thing. We’ve set a nationwide [...]

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(Barbara Kelly) Sue Gunderson, CLEARCorps USA Executive Director, recently elaborated a on the centrality of addressing the family unit in the fight against lead poisoning in an enlightening interview with Blogger Jane Genova – check out “Kid in leaded units need something very different than just getting lead out,” at Jane’s Blog Law and More Deconstructing [...]

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(Barbara Kelly) When my daughter, Colleen, took her little boy, Michael, to their Pediatrician for his ‘well child’ check up around his first birthday, she was dismayed to learn that she would need to bring him to a local lab to have him tested for lead poisoning.  In other words, he needed a blood test.  [...]

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(Chris Johnson) This coming January, I will “celebrate” my 16th anniversary working in the lead field. I was a health educator working for a county health department doing HIV/AIDS work when the opportunity came to help children. My knowledge of lead and its affects was abysmally poor in the beginning. I knew it was unhealthy, [...]

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(Bobbi Corbin)   My experiences in screening children for lead in their blood have certainly been all good experiences!  I have been involved in screening and testing for a couple years now and parents of all children whether middle class, or low income,  all have the same feelings about the health of their children – [...]

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