Feb 1, 2023
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports that lead-based paint hazards in children’s homes are the main source of lead poisoning – particularly deteriorated paint in the form of dust. The most important treatment for a child with an elevated blood lead...
Feb 1, 2023
Lead can seriously harm a child’s health and cause well-documented adverse effects such as damage to the brain and nervous system, slowed growth, development and learning and behavior, hearing and speech problems – which can cause lower IQ, decreased ability to pay...
Feb 1, 2023
CHILDHOOD LEAD POISONING IS 100% PREVENTABLE primarily by removing lead paint-based hazards in homes. For every dollar spent on removing lead paint-based hazards in children’s homes and apartments, $17–$221 would be returned in health benefits, increased IQ, higher...
Jan 20, 2023
Ending Childhood Lead Poisoning is Possible There is an entirely preventable health disaster plaguing Pennsylvania that robs thousands of children of their potential and drains communities’ resources with avoidable costs – lead poisoning. This may surprise you...
Oct 28, 2022
Hometown Leadership on Lead Paint Poisoning Prevention “When I found out, I cried – a lot. I felt completely responsible.” Delco mom Andrea White felt such despair when she learned her two young children were poisoned by lead paint, and she is...
Oct 24, 2022
Delaware County has the fifth highest number of children poisoned by lead of all PA counties, with an average of 250 children harmed each year. Lead was finally banned in residential paint in 1978, yet 81% of Delaware County houses and apartments were built before...
