The City of St. Petersburg's Lead Hazard Reduction (LHR) Capacity Building grant is a multi-stakeholder effort to build local capacity to implement a LHR Healthy Homes Program, with an emphasis on underserved residents of the South St. Petersburg Community Redevelopment Area (SSCRA). The program focus is to: 1. Build local capacity to determine the prevalence of childhood lead poisoning among children under six years in the targeted community(ies); 2. Build local capacity to safely and effectively address lead hazards during renovation, remodeling, and maintenance activities by integrating lead-safe work practices; 3. Develop and implement procedures/guidelines for the intake of potential program participants and establishment of a system to market lead-safe units to families with young children; 4. Promoting collaboration, data sharing, and targeting between health and housing departments; 5. Developing key partnerships with organizations such as faith-based groups, health departments, coalitions, or other community-based organizations; 6. Integrate strategies to incorporate lead hazard control into existing housing repair programs; (e.g., housing rehabilitation, local housing ordinance, property maintenance, weatherization, housingrelated health hazard interventions, and energy conservation activities); 7. Obtain high quality data to target resources where the need is greatest; and 8. Develop systems for sustaining a lead hazard control program after successful completion of the capacity building grant program.
