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CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Elevator doors opened to the aroma of fresh paint on the fifth floor of the Carl B. Stokes apartment building on Cleveland's East Side Wednesday afternoon.
Toward the end of a long hallway, a team of men and women -- public housing residents all -- were busy at painters' tasks. Masking baseboards. Mixing paint. Rolling out the results on a dingy wall that suddenly gleamed anew.
A dreamy look alighted upon the face of Thieann Rembert as she painted in long, practiced arcs, the moist hiss of her roller leaving a sheen that Sherwin-Williams calls bone white.
'I like to do stuff like this, make something beautiful,' she said. 'I hope to get a career out of this, actually. That's what I'm looking for.'
She might find it. The 39-year-old mother of three, who works off the books for a cleaning service, on Friday will graduate from HomeWork, a two-week house-painting class sponsored by the Cleveland-based Sherwin-Williams Co.
Rembert and 23 others will leave with certificates that attest to basic painting skills, that approve them for work on federally funded projects, and that attract the attention of contractors.
About 65 percent of HomeWork graduates soon find jobs, Sherwin-Williams reports, and many go on to lead their own painting crews and launch companies. Chander pahar bengali movie torrent file download.
The class, now in its ninth year, has shaped more than 4,000 'economically challenged' men and women into painters in 50 cities, according to the company.
Robin Holmes, the administrator of youth and adult services for the Cuyahoga Metropolitan Housing Authority, would like to train that many in Cleveland alone. She'll settle for the nearly 50 painters who will emerge from the current class and a second class planned for fall.
Sherwin-Williams, the nation's number one paint-maker, plans to run the program in 32 other cities this year, said company spokesman Mike Conway.
Holmes said it would be great if other local industry leaders followed the company's lead and offered training that could open doors to their fields. Reaction to HomeWork, she said, belies the perception that public housing residents do not want to work. The class filled rapidly and Holmes said she could fill a dozen more.
'Sometimes there are barriers that keep people from attaining a job or keeping a job,' she said. 'Training is one of those barriers.'
Two weeks is not enough time to master a craft, of course, but it's time enough to get started. That's the view of Bill Allman, a retired Sherwin-Williams paint expert who is working with the CMHA to lead the Cleveland HomeWork class.
'It's not that they become experts,' he said. 'They become a hirable skilled force.'
Across two weeks, his students spread 60 gallons of paint through eight apartment units and up and down hallways. In shifts enriched with job-readiness training, they learned to mask trim, patch walls, grout tubs, chose paint, mix paint and achieve a fine finish with a stroke they repeat sing-song, 'two over, three down.'
'I have learned a lot that I thought I knew,' said Andre Wells, 26, adding that he has long painted, just not always correctly.
'Everybody's done a little bit of painting around the house,' agreed Dion Jones, 37. 'This is professional painting. What contractors are looking for.'
He hopes they come looking for him. Single and fit, he's been unemployed since the downtown Crowne Plaza hotel, where he washed dishes, closed for renovations.
On Friday, he'll be handed a Renovation, Repair and Painting certificate from the federal Environmental Protection Agency at a 9 a.m. graduation ceremony at Woodhill Community Center, 2491 Baldwin St., then embark upon his next quest.
'I think I have the knowledge to start my own business,' he said, adding, 'I'm looking for employment first.' Software update iphone.
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City and county officials are looking for people who qualify for lead remediation grants.
(LONNIE TIMMONS III, The Plain Dealer, File, 2000)
CLEVELAND, Ohio - City and county officials have millions to spend in the next three years to make homes lead safe for children.
So far, though, the city department that distributes the grants is processing only about 30 applications.
Of those, a dozen are ready to be assigned to contractors who will remediate lead hazards, Interim Community Development Director Michael Cosgrove said during a city council hearing last week.
Cosgrove said the city hopes to finish 47 homes or apartments by the end of 2016 and then step up the process to finish about 220 homes.
Cosgrove said the program provides help, in the form of grants, to families that meet certainly income eligibility requirements. That includes both tenant and owner occupied homes, he said.
To qualify for a grant, it is NOT required that a property already be identified as a lead hazard. However, there are requirements based on the income of the homeowners or tenants and the age of children who live or spend time in the home.
Click here for a brief survey to see if you might qualify and here for the application for Cleveland's grants or call (216) 664-4021. (The information is also below in a document viewer.)
If you live in Cuyahoga County, find information here.
The Cuyahoga County Board of Health has about $3.3 million to spend to remediate lead in the following suburbs: Bratenahl, Brooklyn, Brooklyn Heights, Brook Park,Cuyahoga Heights, East Cleveland, Euclid, Fairview Park, Garfield Heights, Lakewood, Linndale, Maple Heights, Newburgh Heights, Parma,Rocky River, Shaker Hts., South Euclid and Warrensville Heights.
Working on a few hundred homes per federal grant, the city and county have helped cleaned up roughly 4,300 homes since 1993.
Roughly 187,000 homes in Cuyahoga County are thought to be potential lead hazards because they were built before 1978, when lead-based paint was banned from residential use.
However, environmental officials stress that not all homes with lead-based paint are considered hazardous. The paint becomes a problem when it isn't maintained and is allowed to flake, chip or deteriorate into lead dust that can be ingested by babies and toddlers.
Previously, Cleveland had trouble moving homes through its pipeline from application to remediation.
In 2012, the city lost $2 million in HUD funding for lead hazards because of a failure to efficiently carry out home assessment and abatement work. At the time, HUD demanded the city transfer management of the program from the Department of Public Health to the Community Development Department in order to keep a remaining $1.1 million in funding.
The city was denied a new grant in 2013, the first time Cleveland had been without lead abatement funding since 1995. When that happened, the county health department stepped in, using some of its grant money to assist Cleveland residents.
In September the city was awarded the grant it is using currently to fix homes
More than 13,700 children under 6 were screened for lead in 2014, and about 1,885 had levels higher than the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's threshold of 5 micrograms per deciliter of blood. More than 493 children had lead levels higher than 10 micrograms per deciliter, and 52 children had levels higher than 25 micrograms per deciliter.
Cleveland, however, lags in screening children for lead.
Only between 20 and 30 percent of children under 6 who should be screened each year get the blood tests.
Despite the dismal screening rates, city health officials identified more than 500 homes since 2010 that did pose a hazard to children, and not all of them have been fixed.
Housing Court Judge Ray Pianka's staff is working to refer homeowners who might benefit from the program.
Last week, the court sent letters to 15 property owners who, because of housing code violations, have to answer to court probation officers.
The letter, which can be viewed here, noted that the homes were on a list of more than 500 that identified as lead hazards by city investigators in recent years. A Plain Dealer analysis of city records revealed those homes hadn't been fixed.
City health officials also sent out information to residents and owners of 157 homes that state data showed were identified in the previous decade as associated with poisoning multiple children.
The packets, city health officials said, included information on reducing lead hazards and how to apply for the federal grants.
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Applications can be mailed to: City of Cleveland Lead Hazard Control Program, 601 Lakeside Ave, Room 302, Cleveland, OH 44114