Getting the Lead Out: Keeping Kids and Communities Safe

Funding Source: Kresge Foundation

Project Period: January 2009 - Present

Project Coordinator: Tiffiani Joy Onifade, MS

CDMTR and the Center for Healthcare Excellence (CHE) at Michigan Public Health Institute (MPHI) will be using a multi-method approach to evaluate the process, products, and outcomes of Kresge Foundation-supported lead programming in three cities, Detroit Michigan, Newark New Jersey, and Oakland California. Progress toward project outcomes (increase in housing remediation and decrease in rates of lead poisoning among children) will be tracked. The approach will gather and synthesize perspectives of program personnel in the multiple agencies responsible for lead programming, as well as perspectives from the multiple target audiences affected, including families, advocacy groups, contractors involved in remediation, landlords, public officers and law enforcement agencies, filling needed program gaps and improving coordination among agencies. The evaluation will be structured around the activities and outputs that are identified as salient in each community, while also collecting a common set of outcome measures across communities that speak to the overall impact of the program on the incidence of lead poisoning.

Project Type: Evaluation