Here at the CLEARCorps website we are working to provide a wealth of resources including educational videos, downloads, and links to resources related to lead and healthy homes. We are providing resources that should be of help to parents and guardians of children, contractors, educators, health care professionals, policy makers, policy advocates, homeowners, rental property owners, and tenants. We hope you will find these resources helpful. If you have additional resources you would like to share or links that you would like to add, please contact us.
Parents/Guardians
Parents and Guardians, please read on to find articles and other media resources about children’s health issues.
Please click here to visit the CDC website for recent recalls or visit our current issues page.
Interested in how to spot lead hazards in your home? Citizen-Times online has released a short video highlighting
lead hazards around the home and effects of lead on children. Please click here to watch the video.
Citizen-Times online has featured a basic diagram of how lead exposure effects a child. Please click here to view the article.
Click here for tips on how to create a healthier living environment in your home.
Contractors
Contractors, please read on to find resources to help you work safely around the potential hazard of lead based paint. These resources will help explain how to keep you and the persons living within the remodeled residence safe.
- Click here to view information on
Lead Safety During Renovation. - Click here to view an EPA
sample pre-renovation form. - Click here to view the EPA website page on Renovation, Repair and Painting.
- Click here to read about how lead dust can
poison a child at www.Citizen-times.com.
Educators
Click here to watch a short video about lead-based paint hazards.
Click here to read about how lead-based paint dust can poison a child.
Click here to read about the latest product recalls.
Property Owners
Click here to view lead-based paint fact sheets from the EPA.
Click here to view the EPA pamphlet, Protect Your Family From Lead In Your Home.
Click here to view EPA fact sheet on lead-based paint disclosure.
Health Care Professionals
“Environmental Injustice: Childhood Lead Poisoning, Teen Pregnancy, and Tobacco“
Abstract: This study investigates the persistent relationships between childhood lead exposure, repeat teen pregnancy, and tobacco use in a sample of teenage females in Syracuse, NY.
Minnesota Department of Health Lead Education Materials
Renters & Home Owners
Click here to view EPA fact sheets about lead-based paint hazards.
Click here to view EPA fact sheet about lead-based paint hazards and landlord responsibility.
Other Helpful Resources
Toxipedia.com- information on Lead
American Lead Poisoning Help Association
Minnesota Department of Health
CDC Lead Poisoning Prevention Program
Consumer Product Safety Commission
Visit this site for the latest consumer product recalls.
Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry
Alliance for Healthy Homes
Center for Environmental Health
CLEARCorps works in partnership with families, property owners, community organizations and public agencies to create lead-safe communities.