The Community Tool Kit: An Advocate's Tool for Improving Lead Screening in Your Community (November 2002) [ Print Version ]

This tool kit is designed to serve as a resource for making decisions about targeted lead screening in your community.

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Tool Kit Item
Description
Cover Letter Cover letter from Alliance staff that discusses the contents of the tool kit and recommendations for its use.
Release [PDF] Tool kit release.
Using www.scorecard.org [PDF] A fact sheet for using the Scorecard, a website that contains data on environmental pollution and hazards, including lead. Scorecard provides easy access to information about lead hazards and childhood lead poisoning in every community.
Improving Lead Screening for Young Children: What Communities Need to Know [PDF]
 A fact sheet on the importance of screening high-risk children in Medicaid.
A Brief Guide to Options for Improving Medicaid Lead Screening [PDF]
 This report provides information to equip communities for participation in decision making about targeting lead screening.
Washington Post article
Few Poor Children Test for Lead -- D.C. Medicaid Providers Blamed in New Lawsuit
Sun Journal article
Activist: Lead program lacking
Bergen Record [PDF]
 Despite Law, many children don't get lead tests
San Francisco Examiner article High Lead Rates for SF, Oakland Kids