The District Department of the Environment (DDOE) is pleased to announce the District Government’s participation in National Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Week October 25-31. This year’s theme is “What’s On Your Walls?”

 

A schedule is listed below.

 

All week: Education and Outreach at District Hardware Stores:

• True Value on 17^th
• Pfeiffer’s Hardware
• Monarch Paint & Wallcovering (Chevy Chase)
• McCormick Paints
• Home Depot
• Frager’s Hardware
• Brookland True Value Hardware
• Logan Hardware
• Glover Park Hardware

 

Monday, Oct. 26:

• Outreach and Screening Event at Mexican Consulate, 2829 16^th Street NW, 9-11 a.m.
• Lead-Safe DC Daycare Training at Mary’s Center, 2333 Ontario Road NW, 6-9 p.m.
• Lead Mobile at Mexican Consulate, 9-11 a.m. (Free blood testing for children under age 6.)

 

Tuesday, Oct. 27:

• Housing Counseling Services Lead Poisoning Prevention Workshop in English and Spanish at Harriet Tubman Elementary, 3101 13^th Street NW, 9-10:30 a.m.
• HUD’s 2003 Lead-Safe Housing Rule Renovation and Repair Class in Spanish at 2410 17^th Street NW, Suite 100, 9:30 a.m. – 5 p.m.
• Table Display at 825/941 North Capitol Street NE, 11 a.m. – 2 p.m.
• Lead Mobile at Safeway, 3830 Georgia Avenue NW, 12-3:30 p.m. (Free blood testing for children under age 6.)

 

Wednesday, Oct. 28:

• Outreach and Screening Event at THEARC, 1901 Mississippi Avenue SE, 3-5 p.m.
• School Screening and Outreach at Miner Elementary, 601 15^th Street NE, 3:30-6:30 p.m.
• Lead Mobile at Miner Elementary (Free blood testing for children under age 6.)

 

Thursday, Oct. 29:

• Outreach and Screening Event at El Salvador Consulate, 2332 Wisconsin Avenue NW, 9-11 a.m.
• Lead Safe Washington’s Grant Program Event at 1800 Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue, SE, 9:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
• Table Display at 825/941 North Capitol Street NE, 11 a.m. – 2 p.m.
• Lead Mobile at El Salvador Consulate, 9-11 a.m. (Free blood testing for children under age 6.)
• Lead Mobile at Chevy Chase Community Center, 5601 Connecticut Avenue NW, 11:45 a.m. – 1:45 p.m. (Free blood testing for children under age 6.)

 

Friday, Oct. 30

• Street Fair and Screening at 14^th and Irving Streets NW, 10 a.m. – 2 p.m.
• Lead Mobile at Street Fair (Free blood testing for children under age 6.)

 

Saturday, Oct. 31

• Halloween Lead Fair and Screening at Covenant House, 2001 Mississippi Avenue SE, Noon – 4 p.m.
• Lead Mobile at Covenant House (Free blood testing for children under age 6.)

 

For more information about these events, please contact Amber Sturdivant at (202) 478-2441 or amber.sturdivant@...

 

 

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District Department of the Environment
51 N Street, NE
Washington, DC 20002
(202) 535-2600
green.dc.gov