"Strike Out Lead Flyer"
The City of Newark, and the Department of the Public Advocate hosted the "Strike Out Lead Poisoning in Newark" Lead Education and Outreach day on Sunday, September 13, 2009.

Click here to read about the event.

Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Week

June 1, 2009- June 6, 2009 

• Featured in the Star Ledger 
  
  
• Governor's Letter Commending Newark's Lead Prevention Efforts
  
  
• Lead Awareness Family Day June 6, 2009 Flyer
  

• Lead Awareness Week Flyer 
  

• Inspect all units of a multi-family dwelling when one such unit has been found to be the cause of a child’s lead poisoning.
• Designate a Model Lead-Safe City Coordinator
• Distribute education materials through the public schools, child care centers, Head Start programs, the WIC program and pediatrician offices.
• Utilize geographic mapping to identify areas where children are most at risk and target those areas for additional screening.
• Will establish lead-safe work practices training for building contractors.
• Seek grant funding to train more inspectors.
• Outreach landlords and tenants to educate them about the dangers of lead dust and advise them of cleaning techniques and assistance programs that are available.
• Prosecute landlords who fail to remediate lead-contaminated buildings.
• Require that all people living in a multi-unit dwelling be notified if a child who lives there is diagnosed with lead poisoning
• Identify and compile a list of lead-safe housing in the city that can be used to relocate affected families.
• Establish relationships with area hotels to provide relocation assistance to affected families.

Community Based Organizations

The following community partners pledge their support to work with the City of Newark for the purpose of responding to and preventing childhood lead poisoning:

• The Newark Partnership for Lead Safe Children

• The Alliance for Healthy Homes

• Healthy Mothers/Healthy Babies of Essex, Inc.

• NCC Newark New Start, MCH Program