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Childhood Lead
Poisoning Prevention Week is October 25 - 31, 2009. This year’s theme
for Wisconsin
is “Be Proactive, not Reactive--Renovate Right!” We want to
focus on reaching out to targeted audiences in our communities, such as
parents, child care providers, school personnel to engage them in
following this new EPA
Renovation, Repair & Painting Rule to protect children while
renovating old housing. Please contact your local
public health department to find out what's going on in your
community.
Renovate Right Outreach Toolkit
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The Renovate
Right toolkit contains sample press releases, talking points, ideas
for outreach and more, tailored to this year's Childhood Lead Poisoning
Prevention Week theme, "Be Proactive, Not Reactive -- Renovate
Right!" Use it for outreach during the week and beyond.
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Other Materials to Support Outreach
Sesame
Workshop Lead Away DVD
In
the Lead Away video, Elmo learns how to keep “lead” away from
his body. On-line resources such as activity sheets, a storybook and
posters support the messages in the video. Materials are available in
English and Spanish at www.sesameworkshop.org/lead.
Lyrics for the song "Lead Police" are also available. For a copy
of the DVD that has the video in both English and Spanish, contact
Reghan Walsh
, 608/261-9432, or reghan.walsh@wi.gov.
 NEW!
Environmental
Public Health Tracking Resource
For those of you in
local public health departments there is a new resource available on-line,
the Environmental Public Health Tracking database. You can access county
level data on childhood lead poisoning prevalence, number of children
tested, and number of children poisoned.
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