Childhood Lead Action Project

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1192 Westminster Street

Providence, RI 02909

Established 1992

Phone: 401-785-1310

Website: www.leadsafekids.org

Email: info@leadsafekids.org

 

The Childhood Lead Action Project works to eliminate childhood lead poisoning in RI through advocacy, community-based education and parent support. The Childhood Lead Action Project is the only organization in RI to work exclusively on the issue of childhood lead poisoning, the number one environmental health threat to Rhode Island’s children.

Fundraising & Administrative Percentage 13%

 

The Childhood Lead Action Project has designed and implemented a wide range of nationally recognized community-based education and advocacy programs, including:

  • Immigrant, refugee, and tenant outreach that communicates lead-hazard awareness
  • The Lead-Safe RI! Training Program, an initiative offering bi-lingual classes on lead-safe work practices to contractors, workers and property owners
  • Property owner outreach that connects owners to abatement resources and prevention information
  • The Get the Lead Out Coalition, a vehicle uniting parents of lead poisoned children, professionals and community activists to work for public policy change on the state and local levels

Childhood Lead Action Project bannerWe are widely recognized as a leader in lead poisoning prevention and considered a key resource for information and referrals in the Ocean State.
Due to our achievements in lead poisoning prevention, the Childhood Lead Action Project has received several awards from local and national organizations including:

  • the US EPA’s Office of Children’s Health Protection
  • the National Indoor Environmental Health and Technologies Conference
  • the Rhode Island Department of Health
  • the Health Mothers Healthy Babies Coalition of RI.