Community Outreach Core

爱荷华州超级基金基础研究方案社区外展核心的使命是解决社区对危险化学品，特别是多氯联苯的来源、补救和人类影响的关切，并提高从初中到成人的科学素养。为了完成这一使命，制定了广泛的目标和具体的目标， 促进COC人员，社区咨询委员会和我们在印第安纳州东芝加哥，爱荷华州哥伦布路口和伊利诺伊州芝加哥的合作学校之间的协调活动。东芝加哥的社区咨询委员会（CAB）认为，该地区工业来源的多氯联苯污染是一个潜在的社区健康问题。详细PCB的传播 在个人、家庭、学校和即将建造的密闭处置设施附近进行的测量将使CAB能够有意义地吸引居民。多氯联苯污染目前对哥伦布交界处和芝加哥的居民来说并不重要，但这些社区的CAB成员和学校官员很高兴能参与COC， 促进科学素养。在合作伙伴的参与下，COC将开发一个空气中多氯联苯：来源，补救和人类影响科学教育模块，用于我们的合作学校和其他地方的教室。此外，COC将开发一个PCB可持续性案例研究，该研究将针对大学一年级普通教育课程的教师 和大学。案例研究方法是一种有效且有据可查的教学工具，PCB可持续性案例研究将通过电子走廊和其他互联网教学资源门户广泛传播。最后，COC将寻求参与密西西比河社区，可能与潜在的疏浚多氯联苯负载沉积物的航行目的。让更多的社区参与进来将提供一种手段，将COC的影响力扩大到我们目前的合作伙伴名单之外，并确定开发的宣传材料是否在更广泛的范围内（也许是全国范围内）适用。

The mission of the lowa Superfund Basic Research Program, Community Outreach Core (COC) is to address community concerns related to the sources, remediations and human impacts of hazardous chemicals, particularly PCBs, and to improve scientific literacy from the junior high to the adult level. To meet this mission, broad aims and specific objectives have been developed to facilitate coordinated activities between the COC personnel, the Community Advisory Boards and our partner schools in East Chicago, Indiana, Columbus Junction, lowa and Chicago, Illinois. The Community Advisory Board (CAB) in East Chicago feels that PCB contamination from industrial sources in the area is a potential community health issue. The dissemination of detailed PCB measurements in individuals, homes, schools and near the location of the soon to be constructed Confined Disposal Facility will empower the CAB to engage residents meaningfully. PCB contamination is currently of little concern to residents in Columbus Junction and Chicago, but CAB members and school officials in these communities are excited to be involved with the COC as a means to promote scientific literacy. With partner involvement, the COC will develop an Airborne PCB: Sources, Remediations, and Human Impacts science education module to be used in the classrooms of our partner schools and elsewhere. Additionally, the COC will develop a PCB Sustainability Case Study that will target teachers of first-year general education classes at colleges and universities. The case study method is an effective and well documented pedagogical tool and the PCB Sustainability Case Study will be widely distributed via the Electronic Hallway and by other internet teaching resource portals. Lastly, the COC will seek to engage Mississippi River communities that may be concerned with potential dredging of PCB-laden sediments for navigational purposes. Engaging additional communities will provide a means to expand the influence of the COC beyond our current partner list and determine if developed outreach materials have applicability on a wider, perhaps national, scale.