Overview
Our older communities and rural areas have harbored a silent menace for decades: lead in old painted houses and apartment buildings, inside and out. Lead poisoning can have lifelong effects, so we committed more than $6 million to launch and sustain the Lead-Free Mohawk Valley coalition. Our coalition partners, led by the HomeOwnershipCenter, are making progress. And from an initial focus on lead, the effort now embraces healthier housing for all.
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In 2016, The Community Foundation partnered with more than two dozen organizations to launch the Lead-Free Mohawk Valley (LFMV) coalition. The investment over the next decade will focus on the reduction of lead hazards and expand testing and community awareness of the problem.
Lead-Free Mohawk Valley Coalition partners signs a compact with the Green & Health Homes Initiative (GHHI), establishing Utica-Oneida County as one of 26 designated GHHI sites in the nation.
The Community Foundation reaffirmed its commitment to reduce childhood lead poisoning announcing it will invest $5 million to support Lead-Free MV Coalition’s work.
In April, The Lead-Free MV Coalition marked the one-year anniversary of its inception with an event that highlighted the past year’s accomplishments and opportunities ahead.