The program works on the Healthy Homes initiative to raise awareness of environmental health risks in homes such as lead-based paint, mold, carbon monoxide, pesticides, and hazardous household products through one-on-one family education, realtor and landlord education. To reduce or eliminate environmental hazards in the home, the program refers families to local health and housing programs to fix their hazards.
The Miami-Dade County Health Department has received approximately 250 reports of elevated blood lead levels annually from 2000 to 2011. One of the most important objectives of the CDC funded program, since its inception in 1999, has been to increase primary prevention activities and lead screening among children at high risk to lead poisoning. In following and modifying the CDC recommendations for targeted screening of children for lead poisoning, the Miami-Dade County Healthy Homes and Lead Poisoning Prevention Program CLPPP has issued screening guidelines for primary care physicians.