Community Engagement Core (CEC)

社区参与核心 (CEC)

• 批准号: 10341188
• 负责人: Margaret A Reams
• 金额: $ 11.83万
• 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 2025-01-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10341188
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Project Summary/Abstract: Community Engagement Core (CEC) Roughly 53 million people live within 3 miles of a Superfund remediation site. Research on environmental contaminants from these sites indicates that environmentally persistent free radical (EPFR) concentrations range to an order of magnitude in concentration above those in surrounding uncontaminated areas. These EPFRs have been shown to form during thermal treatment (TT) of Superfund sites and other hazardous wastes. Our data demonstrate that EPFRs adversely impact cardiovascular, respiratory, and metabolic health. The overall goal of the Community Engagement Core (CEC) is to build an innovative and responsive, bidirectional community engagement program to develop solutions to reduce exposure and enhance the health and safety of communities near Superfund sites and other sites where hazardous materials undergo TT. The CEC directly addresses SRP Mandate #4 (i.e., methods to reduce the amount and toxicity of hazardous substances). In addition to a new environmental health literacy project, we have designed the LSU Clean Air Research Engagement for Superfund Communities (LaCARES). We will work with two communities: Colfax, LA, home to a TT facility for Superfund and other hazardous wastes, and the Superfund community of Alsen, LA where TT of hazardous wastes was conducted. Residents of these communities also face environmental justice (EJ) challenges. We will develop a Community Based Participatory Research (CBPR) program in close collaboration with Projects 3 and 4. The CEC, SRP researchers, and trainees will work to increase understanding of EPFRs and develop prevention/intervention strategies in partnership with the communities. We will develop a new interactive air-quality website and mobile phone app (LouiSA—Louisiana State University Superfund Research Center Air Quality). Through this app, residents will be able to record, upload, and share their observations concerning air quality, odors, and physical symptoms that they experience. The residents’ observations will be reported by the app, which will eventually incorporate measurements from the monitors deployed in Project 3. The community-based monitoring (consisting of input from residents about where to deploy air monitors and uploading of results and individual observations of air quality) will serve to validate smaller, inexpensive monitoring kits being developed by Project 4 to be deployed by the residents through the CEC. We will work collaboratively with residents to identify actions they may take that mitigate exposure risks, such as limiting outdoor activities, running air conditioners, and including more antioxidant nutrients in their diets. Finally, the CEC will help residents prepare comments for meetings with regulators so that they may participate more effectively in collective decisions about the treatment of hazardous materials in their communities. These collaborative activities—selecting locations to be monitored, recording observations, and selecting mitigation strategies—will help enhance the health resilience of these communities, and could be applied to other EJ localities.

项目摘要/摘要：社区参与核心 (CEC) 大约 5300 万人居住在超级基金环境修复地点 3 英里范围内。 来自这些地点的污染物表明环境持久性自由基（EPFR）浓度 其浓度比周围未污染地区高出一个数量级。 EPFR 已被证明是在超级基金场地和其他危险场所的热处理 (TT) 过程中形成的 我们的数据表明 EPFR 对心血管、呼吸和代谢健康产生不利影响。 社区参与核心 (CEC) 的总体目标是建立一个创新、响应迅速、 双向社区参与计划，旨在制定减少接触和增强健康的解决方案 以及超级基金地点和危险材料接受 TT 的其他地点附近社区的安全。 CEC 直接处理 SRP 指令#4（即减少危险物质数量和毒性的方法） 除了新的环境健康素养项目外，我们还设计了路易斯安那州立大学清洁空气项目。 超级基金社区研究参与 (LaCARES) 我们将与两个社区合作：Colfax、 洛杉矶是超级基金和其他危险废物 TT 设施的所在地，也是阿尔森超级基金社区的所在地， 进行危险废物 TT 的洛杉矶 这些社区的居民也面临着环境问题。 我们将密切开发基于社区的参与性研究（CBPR）计划。 与项目 3 和 4 的合作。CEC、SRP 研究人员和学员将努力增加 了解 EPFR 并与社区合作制定预防/干预策略。 我们将开发一个新的交互式空气质量网站和手机应用程序（LouiSA——路易斯安那州 大学超级基金研究中心空气质量）通过这个应用程序，居民将能够记录、上传、 并分享他们对空气质量、气味和身体症状的观察结果。 该应用程序将报告居民的观察结果，该应用程序最终将纳入来自 项目 3 中部署的监测员。基于社区的监测（包括居民关于 在哪里部署空气监测器并上传结果和空气质量的个人观察结果）将有助于 验证由项目 4 开发并由居民部署的更小、更便宜的监控套件 我们将通过 CEC 与居民合作，确定他们可以采取的缓解措施。 暴露风险，例如限制户外活动、运行空调以及摄入更多抗氧化剂 最后，CEC 将帮助居民准备与监管机构会议的意见，以便 他们可以更有效地参与有关危险材料处理的集体决策 他们的社区。这些协作活动——选择要监测的位置、记录观察结果、 并选择缓解策略——将有助于增强这些社区的健康复原力，并且可以 适用于其他 EJ 地区。