Community Outreach and Engagement Core

摘要-社区外展和参与的核心 社区外展和参与核心(COEC)将促进 环境卫生科学家、社区组织、环境司法专家和公共卫生 各机构为环境健康研究建立和维持多方向的伙伴关系，即 响应加州中央山谷最脆弱社区的健康需求和关切。 这一地区被认为拥有全国最具生产力的农业，在 贫困集中、环境污染、环境卫生条件差的地区。 COEC为应对这些挑战而开展的具体活动将包括：1)通过 EHS CC调查人员和最弱势群体的全面需求和机会评估 加州中央山谷的人口和地点2)社区利益相关者咨询委员会提供帮助 确保中心的活动了解这些社区的需求和关切，并确保 中心以有意义的方式主动接触社区领导人；3)多方面的培训计划建设 EHS CC科学家和社区合作伙伴的能力；4)翻译和传播过程 EHS CC结果掌握在政策制定者、公共机构人员、卫生专业人员和社区手中 领导人支持他们的健康促进战略。COEC与所有其他中心组件集成在一起。 这将通过1)行政核心的年度中心范围的务虚会来实现，COEC将在会上 监督社区利益攸关方计划的会议；2)COEC领导人和利益攸关方审查 试点项目的社区相关性；3)COEC将与职业发展 为早期调查人员和其他中心成员提供沟通技能培训的计划 以及向非技术受众介绍EHS研究成果以及授课机会 科学素养和4)COEC和社区利益相关者与综合健康 科学设施核心和曝光设施核心，参与设计和解释诊所，以 了解研究过程，并就与他们生活的相关性提供社区观点。

Abstract - Community Outreach and Engagement Core The Community Outreach and Engagement Core (COEC) will foster a culture of collaboration among environmental health scientists, community organizations, environmental justice experts and public health agencies to create and sustain multi-directional partnerships for environmental health research that is responsive to the health needs and concerns of the most vulnerable communities in California's Central Valley. This region, considered to have the most productive agricultural industry in the country, also leads the nation in areas of concentrated poverty, environmental contamination, and poor environmental health conditions. Specific COEC activities to address these challenges will include 1) partnership development through a comprehensive needs and opportunities assessment of both EHS CC investigators and the most vulnerable populations and places in California's Central Valley 2) Community Stakeholders Advisory Committee to help ensure that the Center's activities are informed by the needs and concerns of these communities and that the Center proactively engages community leaders in meaningful ways; 3) a multifaceted training program building capacity of both EHS CC scientists and community partners; 4) a translation and dissemination process to put EHS CC results in the hands of policy makers, public agency personnel, health professionals and community leaders to support their health promotion strategies. The COEC is integrated with all other Center components. This will be achieved through 1) the Administrative Core's Center-wide annual retreat in which the COEC will oversee a community stakeholder-planned session; 2) COEC leaders and stakeholders review of proposals for Pilot Projects for their community relevance; 3) the COEC will collaborate with the Career Development Program to provide early stage investigators and other Center members with training in communication skills and in presentation of EHS research results to non-technical audiences, as well as opportunities to teach science literacy and 4) The COEC and community stakeholders collaborate with the Integrative Health Sciences Facility Core and the Exposure Facility Core, to participate in the Design and Interpretation Clinics to learn about the research process and provide community perspectives on relevance to their lives.