The Lead Group Inc

The Lead Education and Abatement Design Group (LEAD) is a not-for-profit community organisation which develops and provides information and referrals on lead poisoning and lead contamination prevention and management. Our goal is Working to eliminate lead poisoning globally and to protect the environment from lead in all its uses: past, current and new uses. We aim to achieve this in three main ways: 1.Through information and referrals on our website including self-help e-groups and Question and Answer 2.Input into government policy on lead abatement and the elimination of lead in products and processes 3.Advice and advocacy nationally and globally.(The new name of our advisory service reflects the global nature of the service.) What We Do: •Telephone advice for parents and carers of lead poisoned children. •Awareness raising about the problems of lead in lead mining, smelting, manufacturing and urban communities, especially inner-city areas. •Lead Safe World Project •Volcano Art Prize environmental health lead safety art, photo, film competition •Helped foster the development of a ceiling dust removal industry in Sydney and other major Australian cities and lead affected rural areas, whilst encouraging the lead abatement industry, especially manufacturers of lead substitute products with export potential. •Developed a comprehensive library (possibly the largest public resource of this kind, in the world) covering all aspects of lead. •Web-published numerous factsheets, databases of referrals and library items, and LEAD Action News, a quarterly newsletter containing all the latest on lead issues. •Organised a self-help e-group Plumbism and Autism Network (PAN) for groups of parents with lead-affected children and a dozen other e-groups •Developed networks of people working on lead issues, in order to maintain the best referral database on lead in Australia.