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Promotes lead monitoring and education. Recommended for children ages 9 months through 6 years. Available by appointment at the Immunization Clinic.

• Provides education and information on lead risk reduction methods.

• Provides lead poisoning screening

• Provides nursing and environmental home visits for children with elevated lead levels.

Provides information about how to keep children safe from lead poisoning where they live, learn, and play.

Provides Greene County residents, businesses, industries, and institutions solid waste and recycling management information and a program for disposal and recycling of solid waste, including management of a sanitary landfill, transfer stations, recycling centers, and compost areas.

Provides financial assistance to reduce lead-based paint hazards in privately owned, residential structures throughout Onondaga County. Common repairs provided by the program include new windows, doors, and siding.

DBCH conducts inspections, monitors, and approves permits for public facilities including children's camps, food service facilities, swimming pools, sewage collection/ disposal and treatment. Investigates food borne illnesses, sewage failures, animal infestations, and animal bites. Provides technical assistance for chemical spills or other hazardous waste. Also does compliance checks on tobacco retails to enforce state and local clean air regulations.

Offers a wide variety of educational programs to area schools involving the environment. Two of the most popular programs are “Ronny Raindrop” and the “Enviroscape.”

Provides services including free home inspection for lead hazards and instruction on lead abatement for tenants, landlords, and homeowners. May also offer cleaning and painting supplies and a free lead renovator's education course along with a re-inspection. For children identified as having high blood levels, provides education, monitoring, case follow up, environmental investigation, nutrition, and developmental screening.

Provides information about how to keep children safe from lead poisoning where they live, learn, and play. Services include: Education, screening services, and information about making homes safe. This program is sponsored jointly by the Chemung County Health Department and the City of Elmira to educate parents, homeowners, and landlords.

Provides immunizations for common childhood diseases, such as the MMR (measles/mumps/rubella) and polio vaccines, for children/adolescents enrolled in elementary through high school.

Provides information about how to keep children safe from lead poisoning where they live, learn, and play. Services include: Education, screening services, and information about making homes safe.

Information about asbestos and lead removal, radon information, fish advisories, air quality, hazardous waste sites, pesticide information, public water supplies, oil or chemical spills. Information about Lead Test Kits available.

Assists with finding resources within the community to prevent, provide early detection, and effectively manage lead poisoning in children and pregnant women. Training, lectures, and additional resources available for child care providers, health care providers, and other interested community members.

Public water systems are routinely tested by both your public water system and the Nassau County Department of Health. Your local water supplier handles complaints about rusty water or odors. Other inquiries may be made to the Health Department Bureau of Water Supply at 516-227-9692 weekdays from 9:00 a.m. to 4:45 p.m. For emergencies after business hours, call 516-742-6154.

The Environmental Health Division is responsible for enforcing NYS Public Health Law and the State Sanitary Code in Schoharie County. The division provides services, guidance and education, which prevents illness, improves people's health, protects the environment and enhances the quality of life for all Schoharie County residents.

A free program dedicated to improving the quality of life for Broome County residents by reducing exposure to health and safety risks in the home. The program includes a free in-home safety assessment along with product demonstrations and free safety supplies. The program helps to identify and address concerns around indoor air quality, lead-based paint, fire hazards, slips/trips/fall prevention, pest control, and other potential hazards. There are no income requirements. This is not an enforcement program.

Provides information and tips for coping with emergency situations, such as fire, floods, storms, power failures, etc.

Provides a home safety inspection performed by Health Inspectors/Educators, followed by information and supplies to improve home safety. Home inspection visits include an assessment for indoor air quality, asthma control, carbon monoxide poisoning, fire and burn safety, lead poisoning hazards, unintentional injury, smoking cessation, and housing and property maintenance, along with information about all of the above. Following the home assessment, intervention products and services are provided according to need and interest. Free products include: smoke detectors and batteries, CO detectors, child safety products, cleaning supplies, asthma trigger management supplies, and radon test kits to qualifying families. These products are only available for households that undergo the home safety inspection.

Fulton County Public Health operates a lead testing clinic once a month at our office for those children with no insurance. The majority of children; however, receive a prescription from their family physician and have the test done at a local hospital laboratory. The tests are provided to all children age 6 months up to 6 years of age. The results are sent to Fulton County Public Health for follow-up and risk reduction education.

Committed to reducing the potential of lead exposure for all children living in Niagara County. Lead is a poison that can affect every system of the child's body. It is particularly harmful to the developing brain, sometimes causing severe developmental delays that may affect the child throughout his or her lifetime. Program goals include assurance that all children ages one and two (and up to age six if at risk) have been tested for lead poisoning, minimizing the risk of childhood lead exposure through educational home visits and environmental referral, if appropriate; providing information on proper medical evaluation and follow up; preventing lead exposure to children before they are harmed; and identifying, controlling, and/or safely removing lead hazards in the child's environment. Services provided include lead testing of uninsured children who require a test; reviewing lead test results; notifying parent or guardian of elevated test results; visiting parent or guardian at home to provide education on care of children with elevated blood lead levels; and if appropriate, referring children to the NCDOH Early Intervention Program for developmental testing.

Provides a variety of services including:

• Lead poisoning prevention education
• Lead screening for age appropriate children through referral to private physicians or directly for uninsured or under insured children
• Free lead testing for children ages 1 and 2 who otherwise could not afford to be tested.
• Case management to children with confirmed elevated lead levels and assess their environment to determine the source of lead contamination.
• Instruction to property owners of the methods/procedures to reduce or eliminate sources of lead poisoning.