Building a culture of health in the green: Participatory learning and action to address air and soil quality in rural underserved communities

项目总结 环境科学与健康风险综合实验室，与多个 亚利桑那州的合作伙伴提议启动这一项目，“在绿色中建设健康文化： 参与性学习和行动，以解决服务不足的农村地区的空气和土壤质量 社区“。我们的总体目标是创建一个全国性的深度参与学习模式 科学、技术、工程、艺术和数学(STEAM)教育 作为环境健康顾问委员会成员、摄影师、科学家和设计师 在环境正义(EJ)社区。EJ社区是指受 不成比例地暴露在环境危害中，并增加了对这些危害的脆弱性。 环境正义社区中存在着根本性和关键性的挑战。 在这些空间长大的年轻人需要做好准备，以应对这些挑战和 成为结构变革的未来支柱。学生将获得所需的工具、技能和支持 (1)解释交叉性和环境数据，以及(2)传达项目结果和 建议在地方、地区和国家层面采取行动。拟议的项目以 影响亚利桑那州农村8-12年级学生健康和正义的社会和环境因素 历史或活动对环境健康构成重大危害的社区 资源提取活动。交叉性、环境健康和数据素养是 对于从科学研究的结果中得出意义来说是必不可少的。可能的结果是 建议的项目是增加对交叉性、环境 健康(特别是空气和土壤质量)，以及青年和研究人员的数据素养， 以及在EJ社区中应用这些信息以实现社会正义和健康公平。 该研究教育计划旨在利用交叉性的变革性力量和 帮助合作的EJ社区更接近实现社会正义和健康公平。 通过这种方法和严格的学习研究，这项工作的结果将提供 建立绿色健康文化所需的证据基础。

PROJECT SUMMARY The Integrated Environmental Science and Health Risk Laboratory, in collaboration with multiple Arizona partners, propose to launch the project, “Building a culture of health in the green: Participatory learning and action to address air and soil quality in rural underserved communities”. Our overall goal is to create a national deep engagement learning model of Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Math (STEAM) education that empowers students as environmental health advisory board members, photographers, scientists, and designers living in environmental justice (EJ) communities. EJ communities refers to areas affected by disproportionate exposure to environmental hazards and increased vulnerability to those hazards. There are fundamental and critical challenges that exist in environmental justice communities. Youth growing up in these spaces need the preparation to navigate through these challenges and be the future pillars of structural change. Students will acquire the tools, skills and support needed to (1) interpret intersectionality and environmental data and (2) communicate project results and recommend actions at local, regional, and national levels. The proposed project centers on the social and environmental factors that affect health and justice for 8th - 12th graders in rural Arizona communities with significant environmental health hazards posed from historical or active resource extraction activities. Intersectionality and environmental health and data literacy are essential for deriving meaning from the results of scientific inquiry. Potential outcomes for the proposed project are increased understanding and integration of intersectionality, environmental health (specifically air and soil quality), and data literacy among both youth and researchers, and the application such information to achieve social justice and health equity in EJ communities. This research education program aims to leverage intersectionality’s transformational power and help move the collaborating EJ communities closer to achieving social justice and health equity. Through the approach and rigorous learning research, the outcomes of this work will provide the evidence-base needed for building a culture of health in the green.