Resources

Stipend Training Funds for Lead Abatement Supervisors and Workers

Letter of Intent to Bid. View here (PDF)


Lead Training Scholarship Application State-Certified Lead professional

Michigan's Lead Abatement Act of 1998 requires that any person performing lead hazard control services must be certified by the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS). Funds have been made available to help pay training costs for lead supervisors and lead workers for eligible individuals. Click here for the application. 

Lead Safe Home Program

Funding is available from the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services to help qualified homeowners and rental property owners reduce lead-based paint hazards in their homes. Find out more here.

Finding a Healthy Home


The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services has a new fact sheet on how to find a healthy home.View here (PDF).

CLEARCorps Services

CLEARCorps/Detroit

Healthy Toys

From HealthyStuff.org, the Consumer Action Guide to Toxic Chemicals in Toys. Find screening results for hundreds of popular toys.

Lead Safe Housing Registry

This registry is a listing of single-family homes, duplexes, apartments, and daycare homes and centers that have received a professional lead service.

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Helpful References

American FactFinder. Pre-1978 Housing calculated from U.S. Bureau, Census 2000 .

California Department of Health Services. Family Lead Poisoning Associated with Occupational Exposure. Find out more here.

Michigan Alliance for Lead Safe Housing. (2011.) Childhood Lead Poisoning: An assault on neurological health, education, and social order. View full paper here. View Executive Summary here.

Michigan Department of Community Health, Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Program Data Reports.

Michigan Network for Children’s Environmental Health, Ecology Center. (2010.) The Price of Pollution: Cost Estimates of Environment-Related Childhood Disease in Michigan. Wright JP, Dietrich KN, Ris MD et al. (2008.) Read more here.

Association of Prenatal and Childhood Blood Lead Concentrations with Criminal Arrests in Early Adulthood. PloS Medicine 5(5):e101. View journal here.