Aventuras del club de los detectives del plomo (Adventures of the Lead Detectives Club), interactive website for children in English and Spanish on preventing lead poisoning.

Foreign Language Lead Poisoning Prevention Information Resources (pdf), revised 3/11

Getting the Lead Out: Students, Toxins, and Environmental Racism, Erik Ness

Greening Schools, this website provides a variety of lesson plans on lead paint poisoning for all ages

The Impact of Early Childhood Lead Exposure on Educational Test Performance among Connecticuit Schoolchildren, Phase 1 Report, Duke University, 2/11 (pdf)

NEW TRAINING FOR EDUCATORS
The LAMPP Project in partnership with the Healthy Environments for Children Initiative at UCONN is very pleased to announce the release of their new lead awareness training for educators, "Lead Poisoning: Limiting the Ability to Learn." This free training is now available on the LAMPP web site and they encourage anyone in education to take advantage of this excellent training.

• The training has been designed to raise educators' awareness of lead poisoning and enhance their ability to respond to the needs of children harmed by lead. Please forward an invitation to participate to any educator or educator organization you know and simply have them follow this link http://www.connecticutchildrens.org/lampptraining to take part in the online training. It's free, informative, and easy to follow.
• There are separate modules for Classroom Educators, Administrators, and personnel from Health Services, Family Resource Centers, Pupil Support Services, Private Schools and Child Daycare Facilities.

Lead Awareness for Parents DVD. Call (585) 224-3125 to request a free copy of this locally produced 10 minute program (viewable in English, Spanish/Español, and American Sign Language). You can go to YouTube and view the programs there or check them out through the Monroe County Library System.

Lead Poisoning Prevention Curriculum for Preschool Children and Their Families (pdf), NYS Department of Health. Help preschool children and their families learn about lead poisoning.

LDA Life and Learning Services (585) 263-3323

My Environment, My Health, My Choices is an environmental health curriculum development project sponsored by the University of Rochester's Environmental Health Sciences Center. The project involves teachers from the greater Rochester, New York area (as well as throughout New York State) who create environmental health curriculum units with the support of University of Rochester faculty.

Preventing Lead Poisoning in Children, Carolyn Kinder, Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute

Rochester City School District LEAD-SAFE SCHOOLS POLICY (pdf), adopted 9/07

Save Children from Jaws of Lead Paint (pdf), D&C, 6/00

The Scourge of Lead Poisoning, Monroe County School Boards Association Newsletter, 4/03

Sesame Street Lead Away! (1996)
This video, featuring the beloved characters of Sesame Street, presents a complicated subject in ways that can easily be understood by children and their families. Click here to view the video on-line and for additional educational activities for children.

A Strange Ignorance by Michael Martin. Learn more about the impact of childhood lead poisoning on education.

Study shows lead poisoning leads to behavior problems in school age, urban children (pdf) Arnold School of Public Health, 4/07

Teaching about Toxins, Kelley Dawson Salas

Fight Lead Poisoning with a Healthy Diet (pdf)

Combata el Envenenamiento con Plomo con una dieta sauldable (pdf), Environmental Protection Agency

Freddie Lews: boy was twice a victim — of lead, then violence (pdf) D&C, 06/06

LEAD TESTING EVENTS (courtesy of a Monroe Plan for Medical Care grant) at Jordan Health Link. Click HERE for a January-March 2012 Schedule in ENGLISH and click HERE FOR SPANISH.