NLAPH Lead-Free Communities Teams Spotlight
Hear from teams on the impact our program had on their ability to work across sectors to create lead-free communities
In 2020, the CDC’s National Center for Environmental Health funded NLAPH to design a program track where teams working on reducing community lead hazards could advance leadership skills, collaboratively learn, and share success stories related to creating lead-free communities. Read our brief to learn more about the learning program:
Lead-Free Communities Learning Brief ⭢
Learn how NLAPH enables teams to center health equity & racial justice in their work
A core component of the NLAPH program is to provide teams with training that bolsters the skills and knowledge needed to address health disparities within communities. To learn more about how NLAPH supports participants in centering equity in their work, read our case study:
In this video, Nick Hart shares how the team utilized tools and learnings from the program to achieve meaningful impacts during and beyond their time with NLAPH.
STORIES FROM THE FIELD
Eliminating lead’s impact in Louisville
The Louisville Lead-Free Community Team joined NLAPH’s tenth cohort with a focus on implementing lead-free strategies, starting with one high-need neighborhood, Smoketown, and learning from and spreading successful strategies to other zip codes where there was need.
After their involvement in NLAPH, the team developed local policy recommendations that were implemented in Louisville.
