Reports and Publications
Reports
2024
Flint Registry 2023 Annual Report
Flint Registry
It has been almost ten years since the Flint water crisis began in April of 2014. In this year’s annual report, we reflect on the work of the Flint Registry to support recovery from the water crisis. We share the stories of those who have participated and how those stories have impacted other communities around the country. We also present data on the top health concerns affecting families and how the Flint Registry is improving the health of the Flint community.
2023
Flint Lead Free 2023 Report: Data Trends & Multi-Sector Collaboration
By Mona Hanna-Attisha, Jenny LaChance, and Lydia Starrs
Flint Registry
With a mission of eliminating lead exposure, Flint Lead Free is a data-driven and multi-sector group identifying the burden of environmental lead exposure and eliminating lead exposure disparities.
2022
Legal Handbook for Establishing a Public Health Registry
By Colleen Healy Boufides, Jennifer Bernstein, Denise Chrysler, and Peter D. Jacobson
Regents of the University of Michigan
After Flint residents were exposed to lead during the Flint water crisis, the community came together to create the Flint Registry to monitor community health, connect people to services, and promote an understanding of how the water crisis affected the community. A team of community members and experts had to solve complex operational and legal issues to establish the Flint Registry. This legal handbook examines the process of establishing and operating a community-based non-governmental environmental exposure registry. The authors share lessons learned to guide other communities wishing to establish non-governmental public health registries.
Flint Registry Inaugural Report: 2017-2021
Flint Registry
Entering its fifth year of work, the Flint Registry is proud to present a report on its first four years of service. As of July 31, 2021, 16,076 people enrolled in the Flint Registry. Nearly 70% of those enrolled are adults. The oldest Flint Registry participant is 104 years old and the youngest is two years old. The Flint Registry made over 91,000 phone calls, sent 272,000 mailings, and hosted 441 community events in its first four years of programming.
2021
Flint Lead Free: Data Trends & Multi-Sector Collaboration 2021 Report
By Mona Hanna-Attisha, Jenny LaChance, and Lydia Starrs
Flint Registry
Flint Lead Free serves as a clearinghouse of lead-related programming, education, and training for a variety of audiences such as residents, outreach workers, home visitors, construction workers, and Flint Registry staff. The program’s primary prevention and data-driven focus seeks to identify lead risks and service gaps, strategically align resources, and determine cost-effectiveness, return on investment, and translatability of local lead elimination.
2018
Flint Lead Free: 2017 Report
Flint Registry
Flint Lead Free serves as a clearinghouse of lead-related programming, education, and training for a variety of audiences such as residents, outreach workers, home visitors, construction workers, and Flint Registry staff. The program’s primary prevention and data-driven focus seeks to identify lead risks and service gaps, strategically align resources, and determine cost-effectiveness, return on investment, and translatability of local lead elimination. This report highlights lead-related trends emphasizing primary prevention efforts underway in the City of Flint.
Publications
2023
Child Mental Health Status in Flint, Michigan: A Worsening Health Inequity, 2018-2022
By Jacqueline Dannis, Sarah Jenuwine, Nicole Jones, Jenny LaChance, and Mona Hanna-Attisha
American Journal of Public Health
To determine the burden of mental health disorders among children enrolled in Michigan’s Flint Registry in the context of a local public health crisis and a nationally declared pediatric mental health crisis.
2022
Parent Report of Child Behaviour: Findings from the Flint Registry Cohort
By Nicole Jones, Jacqueline Dannis, Lauren O’Connell, Jenny LaChance, Kaja LeWinn, and Mona Hanna-Attisha
Paediatric & Perinatal Epidemiology
When enrolling in the Flint Registry, parents complete a survey that helps identify children with potential behavioral and developmental concerns so they can be referred to diagnostic services. This study describes parent-reported behavioral outcomes of children (ages 2–17) who enrolled in the Flint Registry between December 2018 and December 2020. Although many children were identified as potentially at risk for behavior problems, the Flint Registry supports families by referring them to services that can help reduce the burden of such concerns.
2019
The Flint Water Crisis: A Coordinated Public Health Emergency Response and Recovery Initiative
By Perri Zeitz Ruckart, Adrienne S. Ettinger, Mona Hanna-Attisha, Nicole Jones, Stephanie I. Davis, and Patrick N. Breysse
Journal of Public Health Management and Practice
This practice report describes the emergency response to the Flint water crisis and highlights long-term recovery efforts, including the Flint Registry.