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The Coalition to Prevent Lead Poisoning, a partner of the Finger Lakes Health Systems Agency, is a non-profit organization of community citizens who share this conviction: Childhood lead poisoning can and must end.
Founded in 2000 as the Lead Free Rochester Coalition, the Coalition to Prevent Lead Poisoning (CPLP) is an education and advocacy organization composed of nearly 100 individuals and community organizations dedicated to eliminating childhood lead poisoning in Monroe County by 2010. Our mission is to provide leadership and advocacy to empower the community and its residents to prevent the lead poisoning of children by creating an environment that is free of lead hazards, facilitates the creation of a system that protects children, creates jobs, and enhances property values.
The majority of lead-poisoned children live in the most economically challenged neighborhoods of the City of Rochester, although lead poisoning occurs in all corners of the County. Of the approximately 15,000 children age six and under living in the City of Rochester, African American and Latino children are the ones disproportionately being poisoned by lead paint dust.
This year over 400 children in Monroe County will suffer permanent brain damage that results in learning disabilities, behavioral challenges, and lifelong health deficits. This damage is the result of ingesting lead and the cause is nearly always because of deteriorated or disturbed lead-based paint in the home. Lead poisoning is untreatable, but almost entirely preventable.
We will end childhood lead poisoning in Monroe County by 2010 by 1) informing and motivating residents and property owners so that they take action to protect children; 2) engaging worker training and employment agencies, community-based organizations, and existing businesses to create mechanisms to assist businesses and workers through a transition period of demand/capacity imbalance and to ensure that individuals residing in the neighborhoods most affected by lead poisoning have the opportunity to the jobs this effort will create; and 3) continuing efforts to secure tax incentives and affordable private market loans for lead hazard control work and bring together financial services institutions and others to develop services to fill the gaps in existing funding sources for lead hazard control.
MEMBERSHIP
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GUIDING PRINCIPLES
VOLUNTEER COMMITTEES
The Coalition does its work through its Volunteer Committees. Please take a few minutes to learn more about the Coalition. Find a role that interests you and then join us.
BOARD OF DIRECTORS and STAFF MEMBERS
SUPPORT
The Coalition is a not-for-profit organization supported by public and private funding and in-kind contributions. We are extremely grateful for the support of local governments, foundations, healthcare organizations, and regional businesses.
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