On Thursday, February 28, while in Washington, DC, exhibiting at the Healthy Homes Conference, I had the pleasure of meeting with Jared Golden, Congressmen of the 2nd District and Angus King, US Senator from Maine, and staffers to discuss Lead Poisoning Prevention.
They were genuinely interested in the problem. They asked specific questions about the hazards, and the testing techniques. We talked about the same details that you hear when you take our classes. In fact, the majority of what we discussed would have been covered in a typical RRP class.
Of course, I cannot speak for the individuals, however as a result of the discussion I believe it would be reasonable to assume they would respond favorably to legislation and to additional funding requests for healthy homes and lead poisoning prevention.
I would encourage all of our partners, students and colleagues, not only those in Maine, to reach out to elected officials, and let them know of the problems we all see and solve every day.
By Skylar Bagdon, Principal Instructor, RRP, Lead-Edu
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