The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has just released the Spanish edition of the Lead Awareness in Indian Country: Keeping our Children Healthy! Curriculum (or Plan de estudios de concientización sobre el plomo in Spanish), a set of educational tools and community-based resources to reduce childhood lead exposure.  

The Biden-Harris Administration is committed to expanding access to information and protecting all communities impacted by lead exposure and other public health issues. Spanish-speaking communities and families across the United States, including Puerto Rico, can now use the Curriculum to improve their understanding of lead’s potential impacts on children’s health and encourage actions to reduce or prevent childhood lead exposure. This effort also supports EPA’s recently launched Strategy to Reduce Lead Exposure and Disparities in U.S. Communities, which commits to using outreach as one way to reduce lead exposure. By offering resources in languages other than English, EPA is making critical public health information about lead exposure accessible to more communities.  

Originally released in October 2020, the Curriculum is designed to be taught by community leaders with or without prior knowledge about lead. The Curriculum is a series of four modules that include lesson plans, worksheets, key messages, presentation slides and kids’ activity sheets with a focus on meaningful community engagement. EPA collaborated with the National Tribal Toxics Council and the National EPA-Tribal Science Council to develop the Curriculum in partnership with more than 200 tribal representatives from approximately 80 tribal governments and organizations. 

Since the Curriculum’s release, EPA has hosted several virtual and in-person Train-the-Trainer and Understanding Lead sessions in English and Spanish for more than 1,100 individuals with the goal of empowering community leaders to use and modify the Curriculum to educate their communities. As part of the Agency’s second annual lead training and outreach initiative, which launched in September 2022, EPA is leading trainings in English and Spanish for community leaders in seven communities across the U.S. and its territories, as well as online, using the Curriculum to increase awareness of the dangers of childhood lead exposure and promote preventative actions. 

Access the Lead Awareness Curriculum in English and Spanish.  

For other Spanish resources related to lead, visit EPA’s plomo web area.