1999 HUD Lead Hazard Control Grant Recipients

CALIFORNIA -- San Francisco: $3 million -- The City and County of San Francisco will use the grant to conduct lead-based paint hazard control activities in 500 privately owned, low-income homes built before 1978. The program will target three groups: family child care providers; foster care households; and license-exempt child care providers. This focus will allow the city to expand the child care delivery system for welfare recipients entering the workforce. The Mayor's Office of Housing will administer the program. Interim controls to eliminate lead hazards will be provided through grants to owners of eligible units in areas that correspond to the city-designated Enterprise Community: the Mission District, North of Market Tenderloin; Oceanview-Merced Heights-Ingleside; Bayview Hunters Point; and Visitocion Valley.

CALIFORNIA -- Riverside County: $2.6 million -- Riverside County will use the grant to reduce lead hazards in 195 low-income housing units. The Riverside Health Services Agency in the Department of Environmental Health is the lead agency. Work has been targeted primarily in eleven census tracts within Riverside.

CALIFORNIA -- Alameda County: $1.2 million -- Alameda County's Lead Poisoning Prevention Program will use the grant to create an infrastructure leading to the growth, development and maintenance of "Lead-Safe Zones" in high-risk census tracts in the county. The program is to develop clusters of housing units that will serve as the core of each lead-safe zone. Approximately 200 privately owned housing units will receive lead hazard control work and be added to a registry of lead-safe units in the county.

CONNECTICUT -- New London: $1.1 million -- New London will use the grant to address lead hazards in 50 units of housing. This is a joint effort between City's Office of Development and Planning, Community and Neighborhood Development Division and the Health Department. The City is targeting two census tracts that have both a high concentration of low and moderate income persons and a high density of multi-family housing units.

ILLINOIS -- Madison County: $3.2 million -- Madison County will use the grant to address lead hazards in 200 units of privately owned, low-income housing. The program will be coordinated by Madison County Community Development and the Madison County Health Department, and utilize resources available from other public and private entities. Homes participating in Madison County's housing rehabilitation, rental rehabilitation, and weatherization programs will be eligible if found to contain lead hazards and house at least one child at or below age six or a pregnant woman.

KENTUCKY -- Jefferson County: $1.1 million -- Jefferson County will use the grant to address lead hazards in 80 homes. The Jefferson County Health Department is managing the grant effort. The target area lies within the City of Louisville with portions of the target area overlapping a federally designated Enterprise Community. Eligible units will undergo remediation ranging from hazard control to complete abatement.

STATE OF MAINE -- $2.8 million -- The State of Maine will use the grant to carry out lead-based paint hazard control activities in 230 rental and owner-occupied, low-income, privately owned housing units built prior to 1978. The principal target areas are the cities of Bangor and Lewiston and selected rural areas of the state. The program will be administered by the Maine State Housing Authority. The program will focus upon homes occupied by children under six with known lead poisoning. Approximately half the units will be rental and half owner-occupied. The Maine State Housing Authority will administer a loan and grant program based upon income of the participants. Funds will be used to eliminate lead-based paint hazards in the affected homes.

STATE OF MARYLAND -- $ 1 million -- The Maryland Department of Housing and Community Development will use the grant to reduce lead hazards in up to 150 owner-occupied and small rental units located in targeted areas of the State. The target areas will be selected from the Maryland counties of: Allegany, Baltimore, Caroline, Carroll, Cecil, Frederick, Harford, Kent, Montgomery, Washington and Wicomico. The grant will train partner agencies on integrating lead hazard reduction work with housing rehabilitation, weatherization activities and code enforcement. The training will include an education component for applicants on the hazards of lead-based paint and how to maintain houses that have undergone lead hazard reduction treatments.

MASSACHUSETTS -- Boston: $3 million -- Boston will use the grant to conduct lead-based paint hazard control in 180 privately owned, owner-occupied and rental units occupied by low-income residents located in the Dorchester and Roxbury neighborhoods of Boston. The grant will be administered by the city's Department of Neighborhood Development. Activities to be funded by the grant include testing and abatement; community outreach and education; blood testing of children; temporary relocation of families as needed; and close collaboration with the Enhanced Boston Enterprise Community to encourage the involvement of minority contractors. The city will use the grant to provide low- or no-interest loans to owner-occupants or owner-investors.

MASSACHUSETTS -- Malden: $1.8 million -- Malden will use the grant to carry out lead-based paint hazard control and abatement in 125 low-income, privately owned, owner-occupied and rental units built before 1978. Target areas receiving priority are Wards 2, 4, 5 and 7. Highest priority will be given to homes where a child has an elevated blood lead level. The program will be administered by the Malden Redevelopment Authority on behalf of the city. The grant will be used to make loans and deferred loans to qualified owners. A revolving loan fund will be created that will continue to exist beyond the grant period.

MASSACHUSETTS -- Quincy-Weymouth Consortium: $2 million -- The Quincy-Weymouth Consortium will use the grant to address lead hazards in 120 homes. Under the leadership of the Quincy Department of Planning and Community Development, there will be three partner agencies: the Quincy Office of Housing Rehabilitation, the Weymouth Department of Planning and Community Development and the Quincy Neighborhood Housing Services. Besides the lead hazard control efforts, the proposed program is projected to provide training and employment opportunities to 25 welfare-to-work recipients, conduct blood screening for 1,200 children, and expand the awareness and understanding of homeowners, tenants, rental property owners and the citizens on the hazards of lead paint.

NEW YORK -- Westchester County: $4 million -- Westchester County will use the grant to address lead hazards in 450 homes. The grant management will be provided by the County Department of Planning in collaboration with the Department of Health. The project will provide assistance for lead hazard control in an estimated 100 privately owned, rental and owner occupied units and 350 Section 8 Tenant Based housing units. The grant program in Westchester County will include a training component where 50 low-income and unemployed members of the community will be solicited to participate in an EPA accredited lead worker certification training program.

NORTH CAROLINA -- Durham: $2.4 million -- Durham will use the grant to reduce lead hazards in 600 low-income housing units. The Durham Department of Housing and Community Development is the designated lead agency. Work has been targeted primarily in Durham's central city neighborhoods.

OHIO -- Columbus: $1.1 million -- Columbus will use the grant to address lead hazards in approximately 80 units of housing. The lead agency for this effort will be the Columbus Board of Trade and Development. Columbus will expand its existing efforts, particularly to parents, through neighborhood groups, and to private sector remodelers, painters, and property owners. Columbus plans to implement an integrated marketing, education/training, screening and case management strategy throughout the city and its neighborhoods.

OHIO -- Franklin County: $1.6 million -- Franklin County will use the grant to address lead hazards in 135 units. The County will work with in conjunction with the Mid-Ohio Regional Planning Commission, Franklin County Board of Health, Children's Hospital, and several other agencies and organizations. The program will be achieved through a proactive, comprehensive, and innovative approach involving the County's existing housing rehabilitation programs and the lead services of the Board of Health.

PENNSYLVANIA -- Harrisburg: $1.2 million - - Harrisburg will use the grant to focus its efforts in high risk census tracks and combine its lead-based paint hazard control work with rehabilitation activities in approximately 60 housing units. Harrisburg will also seek an amendment to a city ordinance to help reduce lead hazards in private rental properties without using public subsidies.

RHODE ISLAND -- $3 million -- The lead agency, the Rhode Island Housing Authority, has partnered with Greater Elmwood Neighborhood Services, Inc. to address 260 units of privately owned housing for lead hazard control efforts, exterior and soil work.

RHODE ISLAND - Providence: -- $4 million -- Providence will use the grant to address lead hazards in 675 units of low-income housing. The City Planning Department's Neighborhood Housing Corporation will lead the grant effort locally. In addition, a minimum of two 8-to-10 week lead worker training sessions will train 40 community members in professional building trades to conduct safe lead hazard cleaning and stabilization activities.

TEXAS -- San Antonio: $4 million -- San Antonio will use the grant to provide lead-based paint hazard control in 225 units of housing. San Antonio has targeted the area inside Loop 410 for the effort. The city will create the Lead-Based Paint Hazard Reduction Division within the Department of Housing and Community Development.

STATE OF VERMONT -- $3 million -- Under the leadership of the Vermont Housing and Conservation Board, Vermont will use the grant to address lead hazards in 300 units of low-income housing. The core elements of the program include: Support for Education, Outreach and Training; Intervention in Units with Lead Poisoned Children; Addressing Lead Hazards in Home Day Cares; Increasing the Stock of Perpetually Affordable Lead-Safe Units; Incorporating Lead Hazard Reduction in Housing Rehabilitation Programs; Supporting Proactive Landlords and Homeowners; and Support for the Burlington Enterprise Community Lead Hazard Reduction Strategy.

WISCONSIN -- Milwaukee: $3 million -- Milwaukee will use the grant to conduct lead hazard control efforts on 1,400 units. The lead agency, the Milwaukee Health Department Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Program is joined by the Lisbon Avenue Neighborhood Group, Wisconsin Citizen Action/ Parents Against Lead Task Force, and the Milwaukee Community Service Corporation.

LOCAL LEAD HAZARD AWARENESS CAMPAIGN

CALIFORNIA -- Esperanza Community Housing Corporation, Los Angeles: $100,000 -- The Esperanza Community Housing Corporation is proposing a comprehensive lead education and awareness program in collaboration with the Los Angeles County Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Program, Community Resources of Baltimore, Maryland, South Los Angeles Health Projects, University of Southern California School for Early Childhood Education, LAMP Parenting Program, Maternal and Child Health Access, and the Health Care Consortium of Central Los Angeles. A minimum of 200 general lead hazard awareness presentations will be conducted at daycare centers, parent organizations, health fairs, churches and other appropriate forums.

CALIFORNIA -- Consumer Action, San Francisco: $60,000 --The Healthy Children Organizing Project focuses on San Francisco's low and moderate income individuals in communities of color. Their goal is to protect the youngest children in communities where there is a high incidence of lead poisoning and build the capacity of those communities to raise healthy, lead-safe children in decent lead-safe housing. The grant will be used to conduct lead hazard education through a community-based network of organizations.

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA -- La Clinica del Pueblo: $100,000 -- La Clinica del Pueblo will implement a Local Lead Hazard Awareness Campaign in Washington, DC. La Clinica is a minority non-profit organization that provides primary care, education and advocacy to low-income Latinos in the District of Columbia. The campaign will educate at-risk groups by providing information at health fairs and by developing a National Lead Week with the use of Spanish radio, television and print media.

ILLINOIS -- Children's Memorial Hospital, Chicago: $168,091 -- Children's Memorial Hospital will promote health provider lead awareness in order to increase child risk identification, blood lead screening and parental education by health providers. To do this effectively, the program will develop entertaining, informative presentations for hospital grand round sessions concerning local risk, best practices, and methods to promote parental lead education. In addition, the hospital will provide physician perspective and a voice for the national lead hazard awareness efforts and regional efforts for lead poisoning prevention.

MARYLAND -- Baltimore: $200,000 -- Baltimore will develop and institute a lead hazard awareness campaign, Getting the Word Out About Getting The Lead Out, with the goal of increasing knowledge about lead hazards and decreasing the incidence of childhood lead poisoning in the most vulnerable, high-risk areas. This campaign will be a collaborative effort with the Coalition to End Childhood Lead Poisoning, a well established, experienced local advocacy organization.

MISSOURI -- Kansas City: $190,257 -- The Lead-Safe Kansas City Campaign will cover the greater Kansas City area with mass media lead hazard awareness activities. In addition, a coalition will be developed to conduct education and outreach activities in specific target areas. The campaign will involve full participation from neighborhood residents, parents and organizations involved in lead education and outreach. This will be a collaborative effort with the Kansas City and Missouri Health Departments, Wyandotte County, Kansas Health Department and LeadBusters, Inc., a community-based organization.

MONTANA -- Lewis and Clark County Health Department, Helena: $91,702 -- The Lewis and Clark County Health Department will use social marketing techniques to reach its target audience. The health department plans to reach parents of young children by speaking to small groups and through television, radio, newspapers, posters, billboards, water bill flyers, signs in businesses and innovative "new baby" packages. Additionally, outreach to teachers, the medical community, Realtors and employees of retail stores that sell supplies for home renovation and daycare workers will be conducted.

STATE OF NEW JERSEY -- $170,591 -- The State of New Jersey has formed partnerships with the Department of Human Services, the Department of Community Affairs, the Department of Health and Senior Services, the New Jersey Head Start Association, the University of Medicine and Dentistry, and the Lead Poisoning Education and Training Program to establish the Head Start Lead Smart Prevention and Education Initiative. The goal of this initiative is to educate the Head Start community about the dangers of lead and the ways that exposure can be minimized.

NEW YORK -- West Harlem Environmental Action, New York City: $200,000 -- West Harlem Environmental Action will increase awareness of lead poisoning by informing and educating high-risk constituencies. Specifically, African-Americans and Latinos in targeted neighborhoods. The group will work with other community-based organizations, churches, medical and childcare providers to reach an estimated 100,000 people with the message that lead poisoning is entirely preventable

PENNSYLVANIA -- Philadelphia: $200,000 -- The City of Philadelphia, in working with many community-based organizations, will provide lead poisoning prevention education to children, pregnant women, fathers, caretakers, health care professionals, daycare staff and teachers. Targeted efforts will also include renovation and maintenance workers, staff of community agencies involved with environmental housing issues, health care providers, real estate owners and landlords throughout the City.

WISCONSIN -- Kenosha County: $26,197 -- Kenosha County will launch an aggressive lead education and outreach campaign to include distribution of lead information to community agencies, local libraries, real estate businesses, schools, daycare centers, paint and hardware stores and area physicians. In addition, a door-to-door campaign will be initiated to target at-risk neighborhoods.

STATE OF VERMONT -- $108,579 -- The Vermont Department of Health will launch a statewide campaign targeting owners of residential property built before 1978. The campaign will focus on educating these owners about the Lead Disclosure Rule and Act 165, Vermont's landmark lead poisoning prevention legislation. In addition, educational efforts will focus on educating homeowners about possible risks associated with renovation and remodeling homes.

NATIONAL LEAD HAZARD AWARENESS CAMPAIGN

Children's Television Workshop, New York City -- $68,408 -- Children's Television Workshop will produce a Spanish language version of the Sesame Street "Lead Away!" Video and create print materials in both English and Spanish. The result will be a bilingual video/print package that will appeal to the widest possible audience of children and adults.

Consumer Research Council, Washington DC -- $100,000 -- The Consumer Research Council brings together a consortium of three organizations to conduct lead education and increase awareness on the national level. The consortium will develop outreach and educational materials and deliver them to very important constituencies by using a network of 3,000 organizations that service disadvantaged and non-English speaking population.

Henry J. Kaufman & Associates, New York City -- $100,000 -- This experienced public relations and marketing firm is well grounded in creating and implementing national public education campaigns. By partnering with recognized leaders in the lead hazard control industry, Kaufman will develop coalitions to educate residents, business owners, construction workers and others.

Monsoon Microstudios, Inc., Philadelphia - - $100,000 -- This firm will develop partnerships with inner city clergy to carry the message that lead poisoning is preventable to a very important segment of society that has traditionally been hard to reach. In addition, lead education materials will be distributed to 5,000 libraries across the country.

National Safety Council; Itasca, Illinois -- $100,000 -- This organization will undertake a multifaceted approach to marketing the Campaign for A Lead-Safe America. The purpose of the efforts will be to raise the level of awareness about lead hazards and actions to reduce the hazards. A particular emphasis will be placed on awareness of rights and responsibilities under the federal lead disclosure regulations (Section 1018 of the Lead-Based Paint Hazard Reduction Act of 1992), and of the hazards associated with remodeling and renovation activities.

Vanguard Communications, Washington, D.C. -- $999,958 -- A national campaign will be launched in partnership with paint retailers, major banks and lenders, home inspection companies, service organizations, television networks, trade associations, nonprofit organizations, and others. Further, the campaign will be enriched by coordinating it with a host of organizations and concerned individuals who are already working at many levels to control lead hazards and reduce childhood lead poisoning in communities at highest risk.

LEAD HAZARD CONTROL RESEARCH GRANT AWARDS

CALIFORNIA -- University of California, Santa Cruz: $138,388 -- The grantee will use a method that can identify the source of lead in a sample (e.g., dust, blood) to identify the sources of lead in the house dust of children with elevated blood lead and to determine the bone-lead contribution to children's blood before and after an environmental intervention. This relatively inexpensive method could also prove very useful to risk assessors for the identification of environmental lead sources.

MARYLAND -- Kennedy Krieger Research Institute, Baltimore: $1,174,813 -- The grantee will conduct two separate research projects. One project involves an assessment of a Maryland law (House Bill 760) requiring periodic lead hazard control treatments in all pre-1950 rental housing within the state. KKRI will evaluate the effectiveness of the required treatments and conduct surveys of key stakeholders. In the second project, KKRI will determine if the demolition of older Baltimore row houses results contributes significant amounts of lead to the surrounding environment.

MISSOURI -- St. Louis University, St. Louis: $343,000 -- The grantee will conduct research on the efficacy of various cleaners in removing lead contaminated dust from hard surfaces using a laboratory-based system that includes the artificial "wearing" of surfaces to better simulate field conditions. It is expected that the study results will be used to identify effective cleaning agents that pose minimal risk to the user or the environment.

NEW YORK -- Research Foundation of SUNY/Health Science Center, Syracuse: $190,337 -- The grantee will use a variety of techniques to estimate the contribution of lead-based paint from friction surfaces such as windows to the lead in dust on other surfaces within a dwelling. Differences in seasonal contributions of lead from window systems would also be assessed.

NORTH CAROLINA -- Research Triangle Institute, Research Triangle Park: $169,020 -- The grantee will develop a protocol for using a portable instrument (an X-ray fluorescence analyzer) for testing soil for lead content in the field. RTI will adapt an existing EPA protocol, as well as other existing protocols, into a simplified method for the field testing of lead in soil. RTI will work cooperatively with two recipients of HUD lead hazard control grants to field-test the protocol.

OHIO -- Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati: $102,578 -- The grantee will analyze existing databases to assess applying HUD's lead hazard risk assessment protocol to predict elevated dust-lead levels in residences, and elevated blood-lead levels in children. The results of this analysis will be used to improve HUD's current risk assessment protocol for single and multifamily housing.

OHIO -- University of Cincinnati: $1,085,376 -- The grantee will use the award to fund four separate research projects. Two of the projects involve research to improve current methods of dust-lead sampling in dwellings by increasing the accuracy and sensitivity of the sampling process and assessing methods to analyze dust samples in the field. Another project involves the development of a vacuum method for determining when surfaces are sufficiently clean following hazard control work, and the fourth project is an assessment of ergonomic risk factors associated with lead hazard control work.

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