Good afternoon,
Rep Neeley, Mr. Tawwab, Jaime G (United Way), Eileen T, Director of School Nursing, Toni Larocco and
Mark Valaceck and | met this morning at Flint City Superintendent’s office. Regardless of half-life of lead
and potential for “false reassurance” which has been a concern of most of us, primary the providers, the
Superintendent does want an event which will include parental education followed by testing if wanted,
at one of his schools sites.
GCHD agrees that there are children that need to be tested, regardless of the Flint River episode, and
working with the schools is a great way to reach those children and educate and test as needed. All are
comfortable with the following plan:
o November 12" there will be a “Lead Awareness Event” (title still being worked on) being
held by the Schools in partnership with GCHD. This will be held north of the city at
Northwester school, where parents of children 0-5 will be targeted and asked to come
for a lead awareness education event and testing if needed. There will be WIC, SNAP,
Home Depot, cooking demos, etc. They do want Wes Priem’s program to be there to
talk about abatement as well if they can make it (| know they will be there at the Burton
GCHD one on the 5").
© One thing | may have been wrong on in the past: Adults who present for testing to
GCHD, the Nov 5 or Nov 12" events will be asked to get their testing with their primary
provider; this is in line with our prioritization for children 0-5. The Superintendent and
Rep Neeley agree on this prioritization.
o Rep Neeley interested in MDHHS reaching out to two radio stations to spread any
messages out about lead (he gave me the contact info, and the Mayor emphasized last
week about the usefulness of Channel 12.
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Eeken V. Wells, MB, MPH, FACPI
Chief Mretifeal Breeutine
Mititigan Department ef Health anid Hurtin Serviees
201 Tewreehd St, 5" Fleer CVE
Lansing, Ml 48918
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