Sacramento Head Start Alumni Association

GUIDE FOR STATE POLICIES AND PRACTICES ON LEAD POISONED CHILDREN

Jan 12, 2002

January 11-The National Center for Healthy Housing and the Alliance to End
Childhood Lead Poisoning has published "Another Link in the Chain Update".
This report surveyed all fifty states and the District of Columbia, and received
responses from nineteen local programs, documenting changes in policies and
practices for case management and environmental investigation for lead
poisoned children.

Three main areas of concern surfaced as a result of survey questions:

(1) The ability of state and local Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention
Programs (CLPPPs) to develop and maintain the necessary infrastructure
for dealing with childhood lead poisoning, including:
?· State blood level reporting systems;
?· A system to identify new cases;
?· The ability to identify children in Medicaid; and
?· The ability to identify the number of children who receive case management.

(2) The availability of adequate resources for secondary prevention efforts.

(3) The ability of CLPPPs to ensure that all identified cases receive
follow-up care, including:
?· Repeat blood lead levels testing,
?· Dust testing, and
?· Case close-out criteria.

Key findings and recommendations for each of the main areas of concern are
summarized in the report as well as state and local progress reports.

To order "Another Link in the Chain Update", contact the
National Center for Healthy Housing at www.centerforhealthyhousing.org
or The Alliance to End Childhood Lead Poisoning at www.aeclp.org

Source: The Alliance to End Childhood Lead Poisoning, www.aeclp.org,
January 7,2001.