A FREE Lead Safe Work Practice Training will be held on August 12th from 9 am to 5 pm.  (The June 12th training has been postponed).  Home renovation and remodeling in homes built before 1978 can create dangerous lead dust. If you work on homes or plan to do work on your own home, learn how to do it the lead safe way by attending this training.  Furthermore, the EPA has just passed a law that will be phased in over the next two years that requires contractors working for pay in homes built before 1978 to take a Lead Safe Work Practice course.  Register at leadsafetraining.org. or call CLEARCorps at 313-924-4000.  

FREE Lead Safe Work Practice Training– August 12th

Issue 1; June, 2008

Hardware Campaign Continues

Last summer, CLEARCorps visited 72 hardware stores in Wayne and Oakland county to provide vital lead safe work practice information.  Posters, brochures, and paint sticks with lead safe work tips were put out in almost every store for customers to take.  As summer arrives again, and many people begin thinking about home renovations, CLEARCorps will continue its hardware store campaign.  We will return to the stores to restock our displays.  Additionally, CLEARCorps will use this campaign as an opportunity to educate contractors about a new EPA law that will require many of them to take a Lead Safe Work Practice Training course.  If you know of a hardware store that would benefit from our educational materials, please email Mary Sue Schottenfels at mss@clearcorpsdetroit.org.

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The Cincinnati Lead Study followed a cohort of inner city children from their first or second trimester until their 20’s.  The researchers found dose dependant effects of lead on brain size and criminal activity.  Lead poisoning reduced brain size, especially in males, in  areas that are important for attention, executive functions, complex motor control, and reward based decision making.  Additionally, every 5 ug/dL increase in prenatal blood lead increased the number of arrests by 40% and violent arrests by 34%.  Visit the PLoS Medicine website to read the article.

New Research Shows Lead Effects Brain Volume and Increases Violent Behavior
Text Box: Lead Safe Work Practice Training– August 12th Register at leadsafetraining.org Detroit Festival of the Arts June 7-8 Cultural Center     Come visit our table at the HUD Healthy Homes House Have an event you’d like publicized? Email Nikki at nmkasper@gmail.com. Text Box: Upcoming Events Text Box: For more information, visit our website at www.clearcorpsdetroit.org Text Box: Are you involved in a community group that would benefit from learning more about lead poisoning?? CLEARCorps will give presentations at  Block Club and parent group meetings.  Give us a call at 313-924-4000 to schedule. Text Box: Our EPA funded Primary Prevention Program will keep 100 babies safe from lead poisoning this year. Diann Long, the program coordinator, has already visited 31 homes and created 24 Family Action Plans to prevent lead poisoning. If you know a pregnant woman or a woman with a child under one year old, living on the East side, call Diann at 313-924-4000 to register.

Getting the Lead Out

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