When
Where
2026 Lead Safe Report Back Resource Fair
Join the lead awareness conversation!
Free soil screening! Free lead testing for children under 6!
Your time is valuable. Get paid to participate! Food will be served!
Location: Midtown TechHive, 6815 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland 44103
Date & Time: Saturday, October 24, 2026, 10AM-4PM
Register Here! Watch a video from Mayor Justin M. Bibb
Please join the Ramírez-Andreotta Integrated Environmental Science & Health Risk Laboratory and our partner Cleveland Lead Advocates for Safe Housing (CLASH) for a Resource Fair about lead and lead safety on October 24 from 11am-4pm.
At this event, there will be opportunities to learn more about blood lead testing and blood lead levels and participate in a soil screening (see instructions below or on attached flyer). Free lead testing will be available for children under 6. Additionally, you will be invited to take a survey and participate in a listening session.
Event Agenda
10 am - 1 pm: Soil testing, Lead testing
1 pm - 4 pm: Lead resource sharing, Listening session
The data report-back website will be available to explore throughout the day.
soilSHOP comes to Cleveland
Bring a soil sample from your home garden or outdoor child play area in a 1-quart freezer bag and we will screen it for lead! See below for collection instructions. While you wait for your soils results, enjoy food and learn about environmental public health!
Collection instructions for a single soil sample:
- Step 1: Identify an area of interest for your soil sample.
- Step 2: Collect soil samples from area of interest.
- If a large area, select 5-10 random spots and collect samples.
- If a small area, randomly select 3 spots to sample.
- See table below for sampling depth per spot
- Step 3: Mix soil from all spots in a clean container.
- Step 4: Remove pebbles, rocks, and roots, and air dry. Do not use a flame or an oven to dry the soil!
- Step 5: Transfer 1 - 2 cups (~0.5lb) of the mixed soil into a clean 1-quart freezer bag.
- Note: For more than one sample, repeat steps 1-5. Rinse your container between samples. Limit of 3 sample bags/person.
| Area of Interest | Sampling Depth (inches) |
| Garden Area | Collect all soil from the surface down to 6 - 8 inches deep per spot |
| Play Area/ Non- garden Area | Collect all soil from surface down to 1 - 2 inches deep per spot |
More about the Data With a Soul Project:
Research project is titled: “Disentangling the role of culture, life stage, and information design to facilitate equity in data report back”, funded by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences. An Institutional Review Board responsible for human subjects research at The University of Arizona reviewed this research project and found it to be acceptable, according to applicable state and federal regulations and University policies designed to protect the rights and welfare of participants in research. Institutional Review Board Number: STUDY00004829. For more information, please feel free to contact: Mónica Ramírez-Andreotta by phone at 520-621-0091 or by email, mdramire@arizona.edu