Community Engagement Core

社区参与核心

• 批准号: 10700827
• 负责人: Thomas Lyke Thompson
• 金额: $ 13.7万
• 依托单位: WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2022-09-08 至 2027-06-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10700827
• 关键词: Address; Advocate; Area; Assessment tool; Awareness; Benzene; Carbon; Cities; Collaborations; Communication; Communities; Community Health Education; Dedications; Development; Devices; Education; Education and Outreach; Effectiveness; Environmental Hazards; Environmental Health; Exposure to; Feedback; Focus Groups; Future; Gases; Hazard Identification; Hazardous Substances; Health; Health Hazards; Home; Housing; Human; Industrialization; Infant; Intervention; Knowledge; Leadership; Logic; Maternal Health; Measures; Michigan; Mission; Modeling; Neighborhoods; Newsletter; Outcome; Outcome Measure; Output; Participant; Persons; Phase; Poverty; Premature Birth; Prevalence; Prevention; Process; Property; Public Health; Public Policy; Reporting; Research; Research Personnel; Resources; Risk; Risk Assessment; Signal Recognition Particle; Soil; Source; Superfund; Surveys; Techniques; Tetrachloroethylene; Toluene; Training; Trichloroethylene; Volatilization; Work; Xylene; arm; citizen science; community center; community engagement; community organizations; empowerment; environmental justice; ethylbenzene; ground water; hazard; improved; innovation; member; offspring; outreach; prevent; process improvement; recruit; two way texting; vapor; vapor intrusion; volatile organic compound; volunteer; wasting

Summary/Abstract: Across Michigan, there is growing concern about very volatile, volatile, and semi-volatile organic compounds (henceforth collectively referred to as VOCs). These hazardous substances are carbon- based compounds that readily or less readily transition to the vapor or gas phase, including: trichloroethylene, tetrachloroethylene, benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene, and xylene. VOCs contaminate shallow soils and groundwater of post-industrial cities at Superfund, residential, commercial, and industrial properties, leading to exposures via vapor intrusion. The Center for Leadership in Environmental Awareness and Research (CLEAR) is dedicated to understanding and mitigating this serious environmental health problem. The Community Engagement Core (CEC) is CLEAR’s arm for community engagement and education. The CEC will facilitate a community-centered process to protect human health and inform public policy. The CEC will direct its efforts across Detroit—a city with a legacy of toxic waste in its industrial areas and neighborhoods, an older housing stock, and a poverty rate of 39.4 percent. These factors make Detroit residents vulnerable to VOC exposure through vapor intrusion into homes. The CEC will engage community members in efforts to identify potential sources of VOC exposure, and prevent and reduce VOC exposure, with a focus on reducing infant-maternal health risks. The CEC aims to: (1) Engage community leaders who are a part of the Community Advisory Board to leverage networks and enhance the effectiveness of the CEC; (2) Use multiple mechanisms for bidirectional community engagement in CLEAR by including residents in focus groups, community forums, surveys, and two-way text messaging communications; (3) Include Detroit residents as citizen scientists in assessing the risks of VOCs in their homes, help them to understand these hazards, address their concerns and engage them in specific activities to reduce VOCs in their homes; (4) Include residents in constructing a process for reporting the findings of home assessments and the development of an agenda for intervention and prevention in Detroit. The CEC will advance knowledge of VOCs in the local community through research and outreach, including home assessments to measure VOCs in homes. The CEC will provide information about potential sources of VOCs and equip community members with knowledge of strategies to reduce the amount of VOC in homes, in accordance with the SRP’s fourth mandate. The CEC will engage residents and leaders in bidirectional communication to assess the community’s priorities concerning environmental hazards. Further, the CEC will mobilize CLEAR researchers, community members and local organizations to address identified hazards.

摘要/摘要：整个密歇根州，人们对非常挥发性，波动和半挥发性的关注日益担忧 有机化合物（此后统称为VOC）。这些危险物质是碳 - 基于容易或不容易过渡到蒸气或气相的化合物，包括：三氯乙烯， 四氯乙烯，苯，甲苯，乙烯和二甲苯。 VOC污染了浅土壤和 超级基金，居民，商业和工业物业的后工业城市的地下水，导致 通过蒸气侵入暴露。环境意识与研究领导中心（清晰） 致力于理解和缓解这一严重的环境健康问题。社区 参与核心（CEC）是Clear的社区参与和教育的手臂。 CEC将有助于 以社区为中心的过程来保护人类健康并为公共政策提供信息。 CEC将指导其努力 整个底特律 - 一个在其工业区和社区中有有毒废物的遗产的城市，一个较旧的住房 股票，贫困率为39.4％。这些因素使底特律居民容易受到VOC暴露的影响 通过蒸气侵入房屋。 CEC将吸引社区成员努力确定潜力 VOC暴露的来源，预防和减少VOC暴露，重点是减少婴儿母亲 健康风险。 CEC的目的是：（1）与社区咨询的一部分互动 董事会以利用网络并提高CEC的有效性； （2）使用多种机制 通过将居民包括在焦点小组中，社区，社区的双向社区参与 论坛，调查和双向文本消息传递通信； （3）包括底特律居民作为公民 科学家在评估房屋中VOC的风险时，帮助他们了解这些危害， 解决他们的关注点，并参与特定的活动，以减少房屋中的VOC； （4） 包括居民构建报告房屋评估结果的过程和 开发底特律干预和预防的Agernda。 CEC将通过研究和宣传来提高当地社区中VOC的了解，包括 家庭评估以测量房屋中的VOC。 CEC将提供有关潜在来源的信息 VOC和社区成员了解减少房屋中VOC量的策略知识， 因此，具有SRP的第四项任务。 CEC将与居民和领导人进行双向 沟通以评估社区有关环境危害的优先事项。此外，CEC将 动员清晰的研究人员，社区成员和地方组织解决已确定的危害。