2025 Goals (proposed)

Governance

Cleveland City Council and Mayor

Revise Lead Safe Certificate Law
Enact Universal Child Testing

Cuyahoga County Council, County Executive, County Board of Health

Mandate Child Testing in WIC
Test Foster Homes for Lead
Test Children in Foster care for Lead

CMHA/HUD

Test all pre 1978 units
Child testing for residents in pre-1978 units who are under age 6
Lead safety awareness events

State of Ohio: Universal Child Testing

Draft and introduce Universal Child Testing in Ohio

Congress:

Re introduce Lead Safe Housing for Kids Act.
Demand hearings

Advocacy

Cleveland's Lead Safe Certificate Law. Push for speedy implementation, add new services including relocation, a lead ombudsperson, public access to lead safe addresses.

Facts for Policymakers: Brief candidates for Mayor and City Council. Testify at Council hearings. Write Opinion pieces around lead related issues. Monitor Lead Safe Advisory Board and Lead Screening and Testing Commission.

Increase Child Testing. Sponsor local mobile events. Promote Lead Testing services for immigrant Communities. Introduce the idea of Universal Child Testing

Relocation Services: At risk families often need permanent and temporary housing.

Activism: AKA Empowerment. Supporting by action against lead in their own homes and communities

Answers to your lead questions and referrals

Lead Safe Resource Fairs

Soil screening and testing

Child Lead testing events

DIY Home safety/Lead Safe Practices. Renovate Right.

Report back to the Community. Surveys, focus groups, community meetings, focused interviews

Awareness: Building the base with facts

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Tabling at community events.

Displays

CMHA Awareness

Training for community professionals who work with young children and their families.

Organizational Goals

Promote CLASH Values: Volunteer driven, favoring Direct Action, Collaboration and Membership,

Report Back Data Results to the Community. A collaboration with the University of Arizona. "Report Back" is a project based on CLASH's Barriers to Childhood Lead Testing project and publication.