Community Engagement Core: Community-University Partnerships for Environmental

社区参与核心：社区与大学的环境合作伙伴关系

• 批准号: 8833290
• 负责人: Keith Pezzoli
• 金额: $ 15.13万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 至 2016-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8833290
• 关键词: Action Research; Address; Advisory Committees; Area; Border Crossings; Cities; Collaborations; Communication; Communities; Consultations; Databases; Detection; Educational workshop; Environmental Health; Environmental Risk Factor; Equipment and supply inventories; Exposure to; Food; General Population; Government Officials; Hazardous Waste; Health; Health Hazards; Health protection; Home environment; Individual; Instruction; Internet; Knowledge; Lead; Learning; Link; Literature; Logic; Low income; Maps; Mexico; Modeling; Multimedia; National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences; Needs Assessment; Personal Satisfaction; Plant Roots; Process; Public Health; Refuse Disposal; Reporting; Research; Research Project Grants; Resource Sharing; Risk; Science; Scientist; Series; Signal Recognition Particle; Societies; Soil; Solutions; Source; Students; Superfund; Surveys; Testing; Toxicant exposure; Translational Research; Tribes; Universities; Update; Water; base; bilingualism; community based service; design; empowerment; experience; global health; graduate student; improved; meetings; programs; response; scale up; success; tool; toxicant; undergraduate student

PROJECT SUMMARY (See instructions): The Community Engagement Core (CEC) is a community-university partnership to help reduce exposures to cross border flows of hazardous wastes and to improve environmental public health in the San Diego-Tijuana city-region. The CEC will utilize community-based participatory processes to engage and learn from community leaders how best to assist in building the capacity of vulnerable communities to identify, prioritize and address Superfund-related environmental health hazards and issues. We will do this with the help of a CEC advisory committee composed of community leaders, scientists, government officials and several grassroots environmental organizations active in the U.S.-Mexico border region. Our proposal has four aims: (1) In consultation with our community partners, produce and update a toxicant survey and environmental health protection needs assessment for the Tijuana-San Diego border region based on literature, workshops, existing field research (e.g., source tracking of hazardous waste flows), and some testing of soil, sediment and water by our Research Translation Core; (2) Launch a series of community workshops in partnership with Casa Familiar (San Diego) and Alter Terra (Tijuana), our two lead community-based partners, titled "Making Science Matter; Community-University Engagement for a Healthier Society." These workshops will bring community leaders, experts and scientists together in a two-way learning experience where the community learns about the relevant translational science from our SRP, and we learn from the communities their regional needs, priorities and concerns to help develop future research directions as well as explore the solutions to environmental health issues dealing with Superfund toxicant exposures. Two areas of concern identified by our community partners include the contamination taking place as a result of uncontrolled hazardous waste disposal, and soil contamination in areas where people are growing their own food; (3) Cocreate with our community partners individual and team-based opportunities for undergraduate and graduate students to design and carry out community-based service learning projects, and (4) Building on the success of the Los Laureles Canyon documentary we will co-author a series of bilingual (Spanish-English) reports, guides and science communication videos with our community partners that can serve as community empowerment tools. Our progress will be systematically evaluated using a logic model on an annual basis with input from our external advisory committee. We will share our progress and lessons learned with border communities, the U.S.EPA, ATSDR, PEPH, and the NIEHS Community Engagement network.

项目摘要（参见说明）： 社区参与核心 (CEC) 是社区与大学的合作伙伴关系，旨在帮助减少危险废物跨境流动的风险，并改善圣地亚哥-蒂华纳城市地区的环境公共卫生。 CEC 将利用基于社区的参与流程来吸引社区领袖并向他们学习如何最好地协助弱势社区建立能力，以识别、优先考虑和解决与超级基金相关的环境健康危害和问题。我们将在 CEC 咨询委员会的帮助下做到这一点，该委员会由社区领袖、科学家、政府官员和活跃在美墨边境地区的几个基层环保组织组成。我们的建议有四个目标： (1) 与我们的社区合作伙伴协商，根据文献、研讨会、现有实地研究（例如，危险废物流的来源跟踪），为蒂华纳-圣地亚哥边境地区制定和更新有毒物质调查和环境健康保护需求评估，通过我们的研究翻译核心对土壤、沉积物和水进行一些测试； (2) 与我们的两个主要社区合作伙伴 Casa Familiar（圣地亚哥）和 Alter Terra（蒂华纳）合作发起一系列社区研讨会，题为“让科学变得重要；社区大学参与，打造更健康的社会”。这些研讨会将社区领袖、专家和科学家聚集在一起，提供双向学习体验，社区从我们的 SRP 中了解相关转化科学，我们从社区了解他们的区域需求、优先事项和关注点，以帮助制定未来的研究方向以及探索处理超级基金有毒物质暴露的环境健康问题的解决方案。我们的社区合作伙伴确定了两个值得关注的领域，包括由于不受控制的危险废物处置而发生的污染，以及人们自己种植食物的地区的土壤污染； (3) 与我们的社区合作伙伴共同创造个人和团队机会，为本科生和研究生设计和开展基于社区的服务学习项目，以及 (4) 在洛斯劳雷莱斯峡谷纪录片成功的基础上，我们将共同创作与我们的社区合作伙伴一起提供的一系列双语（西班牙语-英语）报告、指南和科学传播视频，可以作为社区赋权工具。我们将根据外部咨询委员会的意见，每年使用逻辑模型对我们的进展进行系统评估。我们将与边境社区、U.S.EPA、ATSDR、PEPH 和 NIEHS 社区参与网络分享我们的进展和经验教训。