Community Engagement Core

社区参与核心：项目摘要/摘要 社区参与核心(CEC)支持南加州环境健康中心的使命 科学中心(SCEHSC)通过社区合作伙伴参与多方向协作 确定和解决环境对南加州(CA)人类健康影响的进程。这个 CEC是与社区接触的全国领导者和典范--特别是那些由 主要是拉丁裔、亚洲/太平洋岛民和非洲裔美国人生活在经济困难之下，面临着 社会和环境差异造成的不成比例的不良健康后果。CEC的主要目标是 受众包括主要通过基于社区的组织接触到的社区，以及 政策制定者和卫生专业人员应解决：(A)与运输有关的空气污染及其对健康的影响， 这是从SCEHSC的关键研究结果直接演变而来的，这些研究结果表明空气污染是南加州的 主要的环境健康问题；(B)对货物运输设施对健康的影响的关切， 包括海运港口、铁路站场和内陆仓库；以及(C)更广泛的健康和新出现的空气质量 土地使用决策引发的担忧，如在全国各地选址毗邻住宅和学校的工业 多民族景观。在过去的24年里，CEC开发了一种成功的模式来听取 社区并让社区组织和决策者参与解决环境问题 与加州南部交通和货物流动有关的健康差距。在当前的周期中，我们建立在 这一方法整合了在参与式空气中培训住院医生和卫生专业人员的新方法 监测，与多个利益相关者合作，评估和减少社区的有毒空气排放 规模，并扩大我们的接洽计划，以解决围绕工业设施的日益增长的担忧 该地区。我们利用传统和非传统通信技术，如数字StoryMaps、 社交媒体和信息图表，以更新利益相关者关于当前科学的信息并参与社区的力量 以减轻高血压患者的负担。在下一个周期中，我们的目标是：1)促进多方向通信结构 促进互动，与地方/地区/国家分享SCEHSC的研究成果和参与模式 观众，并在我们的指导下增加SCEHSC调查人员对社区关切的理解 社区顾问；2)从环境健康差距出发建设社区组织的能力 人口应对环境健康负担并通过社区解决这些负担 科学和公共政策；3)向地方和国家受众传播SCEHSC的研究成果 创新的沟通方法，为目标客户量身定做印刷和网络材料和资源 受众，并通过社交媒体扩大我们的影响力，以及4)通过以下方式评估CEC活动的成功 逻辑模型和形成性和总结性评价。

COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT CORE: PROJECT SUMMARY/ABSTRACT The Community Engagement Core (CEC) supports the mission of the Southern California Environmental Health Sciences Center (SCEHSC) through engagement of community partners in a collaborative multidirectional process to identify and address the effects of the environment on human health in Southern California (CA). The CEC serves as a national leader in and model for engagement with communities—especially those which consist primarily of Latinx, Asian/Pacific Islander and African-Americans living under economic hardship and facing disproportionate adverse health outcomes from social and environmental disparities. The CEC primary target audiences include communities, primarily reached through community-based organizations, together with policymakers and health professionals to address: (a) transportation-related air pollution and impacts on health, which has evolved directly from key SCEHSC research findings showing air pollution to be one of Southern CA’s leading environmental health issues; (b) concerns about health impacts from goods movement facilities, including marine ports, railyards and inland warehouses; and (c) broader health and emerging air quality concerns arising from land-use decisions such as locating industries adjacent to homes and schools across the multiethnic landscape. Over the past 24 years, the CEC has developed a successful model to listen to the community and engage community-based organizations and decision-makers in addressing environmental health disparities related to traffic and goods movement in Southern CA. During the current cycle, we built on this approach to integrate novel methods to train residents and health professionals in participatory air monitoring, to collaborate with multiple stakeholders to assess and reduce toxic air emissions at a neighborhood scale, and to expand our engagement program to address growing concerns around industrial facilities across the region. We leverage traditional and nontraditional communications techniques such as digital StoryMaps, social media, and infographics to update stakeholders on current science and engage the power of communities to reduce EH burdens. In this next cycle we aim to: 1) Facilitate a multidirectional communication structure that fosters interaction, share SCEHSC research findings and engagement models with local/regional/national audiences, and increase SCEHSC investigators’ understanding of community concerns with guidance from our community advisors; 2) Build capacity of community organizations from environmental health disparity populations to respond to environmental health burdens and to address those burdens through community science and public policy; 3) Disseminate SCEHSC research findings to local & national audiences by utilizing innovative communication methods, tailoring print and web-based materials and resources for intended audiences, and amplifying our reach through social media, and 4) Evaluate the success of CEC activities through logic models and formative and summative evaluations.