The NYC Lead Outreach Campaign ("The Campaign") is a two-year citywide project designed to:

• Increase public knowledge about childhood lead poisoning
• Inform residents about ways to prevent exposure to lead
• Help correct housing and health problem linked to lead

Lead is a toxic substance that is harmful to the body. It's mostly found in chipped or crushed paint of old apartments built before 1978. Lead is especially harmful to children younger than age six.

Health effects linked to lead exposure include:

• Delayed development of the brain
• Learning difficulties
• Behavioral problems

Long-term exposure to lead can possibly result in permanent damage to the body or even death.

The key goals of the Campaign include:

• To raise awareness of the health effects of childhood lead poisoning
• To provide tenants and owners with information on how to prevent and address lead hazards, including legal rights and responsibilities
• To provide homeowners, landlords, and tenants with information about resources available to them

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The Campaign reaches out to

• Renters
• Homeowners
• Immigrants
• Representatives of community organizations
• and many other New Yorkers

High-risk communities that the Campaign is targetting include:

1. The Bronx
   • Crotona-Tremont
   • Highbridge-Morrisania
2. Brooklyn
   • East Flatbush-Flatbush
   • Bedford Stuyvesant-Crown Heights
   • East New York
3. Manhattan
   • Washington Heights-Inwood
   • East Harlem
   • Central Harlem-Morningside Heights

The Campaign is spreading its message of lead poisoning awareness through

• Workshops
• Radio
• Community newspapers
• Website