MCN is pleased to announce a new lead poisoning initiative in partnership with Texas Tech University, Texas State University, and Motivation Education & Training, Inc. Funded by the EPA, this effort will concentrate on lead poisoning prevention and reduction through outreach and training of clinicians and labor specialists.

This initiative will focus on the estimated 320,000 mobile workers and their families who live along the Texas-Mexico border and other families who move from community-to-community in search of work. These mobile workers are disconnected from their communities where they reside, and as a result are less likely to receive or have received information about lead risk provided by local governments and community organizations.

MCN, Texas Tech University, Texas State University and Motivation Education & Training will work on lead outreach, education and training by intercepting individuals as they travel to and from their destination communities. This intercept strategy will focus on the most vulnerable individuals living in farm labor and public housing, those living in low-income neighborhoods, and those living in impoverished colonias along the US-Mexico border.