My Home, My Health: Place-Based Public Health Resources for Rural Educators

项目摘要/摘要 拟议项目，我的家，我的健康：为农村提供基于地点的公共卫生资源 教育工作者，将通过吸引服务不足的农村青年来满足未来的生物科学劳动力需求，改善 非正式教育者的教学技能，并利用蒙大拿州国立卫生研究院的专业知识和研究- 支持的科学家。蒙大拿州立大学与三所部落学院--萨利什·库特奈 大学、黑脚社区学院和首席呆刀学院--以及蒙大拿州的研究人员 IDEA生物医学研究卓越网络(INBRE)将为INBRE网络如何 培训他们的研究人员创建与他们所服务的社区的外展工具包，以便接触到服务不足的人 青春年华。此外，该项目将利用美国国立卫生研究院资助的 美国印第安人/阿拉斯加本土临床与转化研究计划(AI/AN CTRP)。我的家，我的 Health将创建一系列动手的、基于地点的活动工具包，这些工具包将侧重于对 疾病生态学包括非生物条件相互作用的多维图景 病原体和宿主在整个生态系统内相互作用。该项目旨在实现美国国立卫生研究院的目标，即“培育一个 更好地了解生物医学、行为和临床研究及其影响 社区创建具有区域相关性的动手活动，以帮助吸引服务不足的观众 对于STEM，让青年有机会获得和实践与生物科学专业有关的STEM技能， 促进教育者的专业发展。项目团队将寻找模范人物 改进可衡量、可复制和传播的STEM学习成果的做法。这个 该项目包括INBRE部落学院的研究人员和课外项目的教育工作者在三个目标 社区：北部夏延人、黑脚人和平头人保留地。我的家，我的健康将会训练 30名INBRE研究人员(本科生、研究生和教职员工)在科学传播和 这样他们就可以帮助年轻人设计和试行试剂盒。项目组还将培训50名非正式人员 来自蒙大拿州各地的教育工作者如何使用该项目的课程，这将改善教育工作者的 内容疾病生态学知识。该项目总共将影响2260名青年、50名教育工作者和30名 职业生涯早期和成熟的研究人员。在国家环保总局拨款完成后，项目模式将 最终成为蒙大拿州INBRE未来培训的一部分，并与50名INBRE研究人员进行接触 每年夏天都会参加。INBRE将使用这些工具包并将其借给全州的教育工作者，并继续 来创造新的工具包。项目团队包括两名有色人种妇女和六名原住民 来自五个部落的美国人担任工作人员和/或顾问。

PROJECT SUMMARY/ABSTRACT The proposed project, My Home, My Health: Place-Based Public Health Resources for Rural Educators, will address future bioscience workforce needs by engaging rural underserved youth, improving the teaching skills of informal educators, and leveraging the expertise and research of Montana's NIH- supported scientists. Montana State University in partnership with three tribal colleges -- Salish Kootenai College, Blackfeet Community College, and Chief Dull Knife College -- and researchers of the Montana IDeA Network of Biomedical Research Excellence (INBRE), will build a model for how INBRE networks can train their researchers to create outreach kits with the communities they serve in order to reach underserved youth. Additionally, the project will draw upon the expertise and community contacts of the NIH-funded American Indian / Alaska Native Clinical & Translational Research Program (AI/AN CTRP). My Home, My Health will create a series of hands-on, place-based activity kits that will focus on a broad definition of disease ecology encompassing multidimensional picture of the interplay of abiotic conditions with multiple pathogens and hosts interacting within a whole ecosystem. The project addresses the NIH goal to "foster a better understanding of biomedical, behavioral, and clinical research and its implications" by engaging communities to create regionally relevant hands-on activities that will help to attract underserved audiences to STEM, give youth the opportunity to gain and practice STEM skills relevant to bioscience professions, and enhance educator professional development. The project team will be searching for exemplary practices to improve STEM learning outcomes that can be measured, replicated and disseminated. The project includes INBRE tribal college researchers and afterschool program educators in three targeted communities: The Northern Cheyenne, Blackfeet and Flathead Reservations. My Home, My Health will train 30 INBRE researchers (undergrads, graduate students, and faculty) in science communication and outreach so they can help design and pilot the kits with youth. The project team will also train 50 informal educators from around Montana in how to use the project's lessons, which will improve the educators' content knowledge of disease ecology. In total, the project will impact 2,260 youth, 50 educators and 30 early-career and established researchers. After the SEPA grant is completed, the project model will ultimately become part of Montana INBRE's future training and outreach with 50 INBRE researchers participating each summer. INBRE will use and lend out the kits to educators around the state and continue to create new kits. The project team includes two PIs that are women of color and there are six Native Americans from five tribes acting as staff and/or advisors.