CORE--Community Outreach

社区外展核心（COC）将与研究翻译核心（RTC）合作，与我们的 东芝加哥、印第安纳州和爱荷华州哥伦布章克申的咨询委员会以及学校校长 在芝加哥，通过测量空气中的多氯联苯来解决他们的环境问题， 他们的社区，这些活动与正在进行的教育计划相结合， 向广大社区传播调查结果。社区咨询委员会在 印第安纳州几年来一直认为，其社区工业源的PCS污染是 潜在的健康问题。项目4和6是这些关切的产物。的详细 在家庭、住宅、学校和拟议的储存地点周围进行的接触测量 印第安纳州港的疏浚直接解决了这些问题。虽然PCB污染 在哥伦布交界处和芝加哥的社区关注较少，这两个群体有一个长期的 曾与项目研究者合作开展哮喘相关项目，并热衷于 将其参与范围扩大到空气中多氯联苯的检测。这些社区的测量 将利用学校的资源，在现有的基础设施上发展， 芝加哥的移动的货车定期访问该市的43所学校。在执行阶段 我们将聘请社区居民协助收集数据和教育 这些方案将纳入当地学校和社区机构的现有活动。 咨询委员会将在整个项目期间定期开会，协助组织相关的 活动，充当与广大社区的联络人，并与调查人员合作， 传播项目调查结果。

The Community Outreach Core (COC) will work with the Research Translation Core (RTC), with our Advisory Boards in East Chicago, Indiana and Columbus Junction, Iowa and with school principals in Chicago to address their environmental concerns through measurements of airborne PCBs in their communities, integration of these activities with ongoing educational programs, and dissemination of the findings to the communities at large. The Community Advisory Board in Indiana has for several years felt that PCS contamination from industrial sources in its community is a potential health problem. Projects 4 and 6 are outgrowths of these concerns. The detailed exposure measurements in families, homes, schools and around the proposed storage site for the dredging of the Indiana Harbor directly address these issues. Although PCB contamination is of less concern to the communities in Columbus Junction and Chicago, both these groups have a long history of working with project investigators on asthma related projects and are enthusiastic about extending their involvement to examination of airborne PCBs. Measurements in these communities will build upon well developed existing infrastructures, utilizing the resources of the schools and mobile vans in Chicago that regularly visit 43 schools in the city. During the implementation phase of the project we will hire community residents to assist in data collection and educational programs, which will be integrated into existing activities at local schools and community agencies. The Advisory Boards will meet regularly throughout the project, assist in organizing related activities, serve as liaisons with the communities at large, and work with the investigators on dissemination of project findings.