1,500 kids in Cleveland are being poisoned a year, some in ‘lead safe’ homes
WEWS: Robert Fischer, the Grace Longwell Coyle Professor in Civil Society and director of the Center on Poverty and Community Development at the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences, emphasized the long-term impacts of lead poisoning on children, explaining that his research highlights the urgent need for comprehensive solutions in Cleveland. “We saw those lead-poisoned kids…show up more frequently in child welfare services, juvenile justice, homeless services, and adult jail,” he said.
