Impact Assessment, Inc

Los Angeles County?s Pathway for At-risk Communities to Become Safer, Educated, and Empowered Through the Promotion of Lead Poisoning Primary Prevention Initiatives for a Lead Hazard Free Environment. - ?los Angeles County?s Pathway for At-risk Communities to Become Safer, Educated, and Empowered Through the Promotion of Lead Poisoning Primary Prevention Initiatives for a Lead Hazard Free Environment? Project Will Build on Los Angeles County Department of Public Health?s Lead Free Homes La (LFHLA) Countywide Abatement Program by Introducing a Variety of Primary Prevention Strategies Into and on Top of Existing and Planned Outreach and Enrollment Activities. This Project Proposes to: (1) Educate the County?s Environmental Health (EH) Inspector Workforce on the Effects of Lead Poisoning, Lead Hazards That Can Be Cited as Housing Violations, and Identifying and Enforcing Lead Safe Work Practices; (2) Increase Community Impact on Lfhla Outreach and Enrollment Initiatives by Bringing Community Members and Other Key Stakeholders Into the Outreach and Enrollment Design, Planning, and Execution; (3) Develop Lfhla?s Community Engagement Workforce by Formalizing Engagement Best Practices; (4) Enhance the Cultural Competency of Outreach Materials and Increase the Number of Languages the Materials Are Available in to Support Targeted Outreach; (5) Identify, Design and Implement New Outreach Approaches and Messages to Engage Previously Uncontacted Property Ownership Types; (6) Utilize a Community-based Approach to Conduct Targeted Primary Prevention Interventions to Educate the Most At-risk Families About Lead Poisoning Prevention and Other Available Health and Housing Services; and (7) Build and Foster Strategic Partnerships to Increase Access to Blood Lead Testing Across the Lfhla Target Areas.