Core D: Outreach Core

美国-墨西哥边境地区正受到日益严重的环境健康危机的困扰，原因是环境基础设施不足，危险废物处置不受控制，以及采矿和金属加工过程中普遍暴露于重金属。外联核心组织在解决影响边界地区居民的环境健康问题方面有着悠久的传统。过去的外联核心资金被用来利用250万美元的财政支持来发起和管理美国-墨西哥环境科学和毒理学双国中心(两国中心)。外联核心的首要目标是 使边境地区代表性不足的社区成员成为认识和解决对人类健康的有害环境污染风险的积极参与者。目标是他们将成为在其社区实施解决方案的积极合作伙伴。更新计划的具体目标将采用赋予社区利益攸关方权力的新办法，并继续沿用过去外联工作中最成功的办法。竞争更新面临的新挑战如下： 目的1)对墨西哥妇女健康倡导者(推动者)进行环境毒理学方面的培训，以便在她们在当地社区建立网络时扩大宣传努力； 目的2)促进社区利益相关者和超级基金项目研究人员之间基于社区的参与式研究机会； 目标3)指导计划，以培养未来专业的环境健康倡导者 前一个计划中最成功的任务继续如下： 目的4)通过双语讲习班/会议、面向社区的出版物和广播向区域社区利益攸关方提供信息； 目的5)通过提供专业讲习班、双语教材和利用研究生奖学金资金，增加边境地区的人力资本； 目标6)两国中心的行政支助和协调。

The US-Mexico Border region is plagued by a growing environmental health crisis resulting from inadequate environmental infrastructure, uncontrolled disposal of hazardous waste and widespread exposures to heavy metals from mining and metal processing. The Outreach Core has a long tradition of working on environmental health issues impacting residents of the Border region. Past Outreach Core funding has been used to leverage $2.5 M in financial support to initiate and administer the US-Mexico Binational Center for Environmental Sciences and Toxicology (Binational Center). The overarching goal of the Outreach Core is to empower underrepresented community members of the Border region to become active participants in recognizing and resolving hazardous environmental contamination risks to human health. The objective is that they will become active partners in the implementation of solutions in their communities. The specific aims planned for the renewal will introduce new approaches of empowering community stakeholders as well as continue with the most successful approaches from the past outreach efforts. The new challenges for the competitive renewal are as follows: Aim 1) Training of Mexican women health advocates (promotoras) in environmental toxicology in order to multiply outreach efforts as they network in their local neighborhoods; Aim 2) Facilitate community-based-participatory-research opportunities between community stakeholders and superfund project researchers; Aim 3) Mentoring programs to cultivate future professional environmental health advocates The continuation of the most successful tasks from the previous program is as follows: Aim 4) Informing regional community stakeholders through bilingual workshops/meetings, community oriented publications and radio broadcasts; Aim 5) Increase human capital in the Border region by providing professional workshops, bilingual educational materials and leveraging funds for graduate fellowships; Aim 6) Administrative support and coordination of the Binational Center.