Core F: Community Outreach Core

核心 F：社区外展核心

• 批准号: 8097853
• 负责人: Margaret A Reams
• 金额: $ 6.51万
• 依托单位: LOUISIANA STATE UNIV A&M COL BATON ROUGE
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-08-15 至 2016-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8097853
• 关键词: Address; Adoption; Affect; Air; Award; Behavior; Chronic; Communities; Community Outreach; Consumption; Country; County; Data; Diffuse; Dimensions; Documentation; Educational Materials; Educational workshop; Effectiveness; Environment; Environmental Exposure; Environmental Pollution; Evaluation; Exposure to; Face; Fishes; Free Radicals; Future; Goals; Guidelines; Hazardous Substances; Health; Human; Knowledge; Language; Learning; Louisiana; Measures; Mentors; Mission; Names; Neighborhoods; Online Systems; Participant; Pre-Post Tests; Public Health; Public Participation; Reporting; Research; Research Personnel; Resources; Risk; Route; Services; Site; Soil; Source; Superfund; Surveys; System; Testing; Travel; Work; Writing; graduate student; ground water; hazard; innovation; interest; meetings; member; outreach; outreach program; particle; pollutant; public education; resilience; risk mitigation; risk perception; social capital; superfund site; ultrafine particle; web site

The goal of the Community Outreach Core is to work with residents and local environmental leaders facing potential exposure to contaminants from Superfund sites, as well as more diffused and cumulative exposure risks associated with a variety of industrial activities. The Outreach efforts aim to enhance public health and overall community resilience to environmental pollution. The specific aims address three fundamental dimensions of community resilience: stakeholders' access to scientific information about hazards; social capital building through stronger networks among community groups; and the capacity of residents to develop adaptive strategies when possible to reduce future risk exposure. The team will work with the Louisiana Environmental Action Network (LEAN), a public-interest organization with over 100 affiliated groups, to reach leaders and members of grassroots environmental organizations. Initial efforts (years one and two) will focus on the heavily industrialized North Baton Rouge community, named by the EPA as the highest-ranked parish/county in Louisiana for chronic human health risk and the 24th highest-ranked county in the country (EPA/RSEI 2008). Residents face potential exposure to air-borne pollutants, contaminants in soil and ground water, and even issues concerning fish consumption. The team will identify residents' concerns and risk perceptions and will facilitate systematic interaction between the community stakeholders and researchers within the Center. The information will be presented at workshops with community leaders/residents and will be posted on the LSU Center's website. During the third and fourth years, the team will expand their efforts to include additional grassroots environmental organizations that are members of LEAN. They will conduct systematic evaluations to determine the overall effectiveness of the outreach efforts. These will include pre-and post-tests of workshop participants to gauge changes in knowledge levels concerning exposure routes, risk-mitigation strategies, regulatory guidelines, and opportunities for public participation in decisions affecting local environmental conditions. Tallies of numbers of participating groups will be a direct measure of the extensiveness and network- strengthening effects of the Core.

社区外展核心的目的是与居民和当地环境领导人合作，面临超级基金站点的潜在暴露于污染物的可能性，以及与各种工业活动相关的更扩散和累积的暴露风险。外展工作旨在增强公共卫生和社区对环境污染的整体韧性。具体目的介绍了社区弹性的三个基本维度：利益相关者访问有关危害的科学信息；通过社区群体之间更强大的网络建设社会资本；以及居民在可能的情况下制定自适应策略的能力，以减少未来的风险敞口。该团队将与拥有100多个关联团体的公共利益组织路易斯安那环境行动网络（LEAN）合作，以吸引领导者和基层环境组织的成员。最初的努力（第一年和二年）将集中在北部工业化的北巴吞鲁日社区，以EPA为命名为路易斯安那州的最高教区/县，因为它是长期的人类健康风险和该国第24位最高的县（EPA） /RSEI 2008）。居民面临可能接触空气污染物，土壤和地下水中的污染物，甚至有关鱼类消耗的问题。该团队将确定居民的关注和风险看法，并促进中心内部利益相关者和研究人员之间的系统互动。该信息将与社区领导者/居民在研讨会上介绍，并将发布在LSU中心的网站上。在第三年和第四年，团队将扩大他们的努力，包括其他基层环境组织 瘦。他们将进行系统评估，以确定外展工作的总体有效性。这些将包括研讨会参与者的测试前和后测试，以衡量有关曝光途径，降低风险策略，监管指南的知识水平的变化，以及公众参与影响当地环境条件的决策的机会。大量参与组的数量将直接衡量核心的扩展和网络加强效应。