How Communities Create Solutions

Creating viable community solutions requires that community members work together towards acquiring necessary skills and support to tackle the challenging issues that will occur in their effort to ensure that the children and families in their communities are safe and healthy.

The resource topics and website links that comprise the How Communities Create Solutions section attempt to provide community organizations and individual organizers with relevant information and tools about how organizing and advocacy can be a powerful vehicle in creating practical solutions towards rectifying the health detriments and housing injustices that children and families face due to lead poisoning and other hazards as it relates to substandard housing. These resources are also provided as a means of creating a learning community, of which the goal is to encourage participatory learning through the sharing of community information and knowledge. 

The African proverb "it takes a village to raise a child" describes the kind of collective energy and spirit that is needed to create solutions that ensure that the children in our "villages" are kept safe from lead poisoning and other hazards due to substandard housing.

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