{"id":412,"date":"2025-10-23T15:38:34","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T15:38:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region-one-insights\/?p=412"},"modified":"2025-10-23T15:38:34","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T15:38:34","slug":"national-lead-poisoning-prevention-week-october-19-25-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region-one-insights\/national-lead-poisoning-prevention-week-october-19-25-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"National Lead Poisoning Prevention Week October 19-25, 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>Children\u2019s Health Month ends with National Lead Poisoning Prevention Week. <br \/>Lead poisoning continues to be a persistent issue in children\u2019s health. There are several resources available to share with your communities about sources of lead exposure and prevention efforts. Here are a few to get you started.<br \/><br \/>The CDC has information on lead exposure on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/lead-prevention\/prevention\/index.html\">Preventing Childhood Lead Poisoning<\/a> page.<br \/><br \/>The <a href=\"https:\/\/cehn.org\/eco-healthy-child-care-ehcc\/\">Eco-Healthy Child Care<\/a> Protecting Children from Lead Exposures in Childcare <a href=\"https:\/\/cehn.org\/ehcc-leadtoolkit\/\">toolkit<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/cehn.org\/concerns-with-exposure-to-lead-in-the-environment\/\">factsheet<\/a> which covers sources of lead, prevention and remediation strategies.\u00a0\u00a0<br \/><br \/>The NNLM Reading Club collection on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nnlm.gov\/reading-club\/topic\/257\">Environmental Health<\/a> covers information about lead exposure in children. This page includes informational resources along with book recommendations and discussion guides.<\/p>\r\n<p>Although, childhood lead exposure continues to be a significant public health concern in the United States, there are resources available to equip communities to address it.<\/p>\r\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-415\" src=\"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region-one-insights\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2025\/10\/ChildrensHealthMonthOctEPACDC-298x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"298\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region-one-insights\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2025\/10\/ChildrensHealthMonthOctEPACDC-298x300.jpg 298w, https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region-one-insights\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2025\/10\/ChildrensHealthMonthOctEPACDC-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region-one-insights\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2025\/10\/ChildrensHealthMonthOctEPACDC.jpg 590w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 298px) 100vw, 298px\" \/><\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Children\u2019s Health Month ends with National Lead Poisoning Prevention Week. Lead poisoning continues to be a persistent issue in children\u2019s health. There are several resources available to share with your communities about sources of lead exposure and prevention efforts. Here are a few to get you started. The CDC has information on lead exposure on&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region-one-insights\/national-lead-poisoning-prevention-week-october-19-25-2025\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1171,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region-one-insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region-one-insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region-one-insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region-one-insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1171"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region-one-insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=412"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region-one-insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":416,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region-one-insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412\/revisions\/416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region-one-insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region-one-insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region-one-insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}