Community Engagement Core

社区参与核心(CEC)摘要 加尔维斯顿湾/休斯顿航道(GB/HSC)地区沿线社区的居民 由于各种环境和环境因素，暴露在危险物质中的风险过大 人为灾难。除了物质和环境的脆弱性外，这里的许多居民 这些社区在社会上也很脆弱。社区参与可以在自适应的 社区的能力--能够采取主动行为的人力、财力、政治和社会资源 以及地方计划和政策的综合力量--以及灾后的应对和变化。一个 参与式社区具有更强的应变能力，能够更好地预测未来的威胁，并为 从不良事件中恢复。德克萨斯农工大学超级基金研究中心专注于 开发、应用和翻译一套全面的工具和模型，以帮助缓解 在环境紧急情况下暴露于危险物质对人类健康的影响- 相关污染事件。相应地，社区参与核心(CEC)将开发、测试和 实施一系列数据驱动的社区参与项目，重点是通过以下方式培养当地的复原力 灾害研究应对活动。CEC的工作将基于当地驱动的需求，并立足于 接触科学和多学科环境健康研究。CEC正在密切合作 有大量的当地组织、规划者、其他利益相关者和居民。具体来说，我们将 追求四个社区参与目标：1)让社区成员参与，以确定 影响并可以改善社区的环境条件，以便主动规划和管理未来 与紧急污染有关的环境风险；2)发展以合作、参与为基础的 旨在减少在环境紧急情况下暴露的干预措施；3)培养和实施公民 社区参与的科学工具，以减少危险物质的数量和毒性；以及4) 通过建立检测、评估和评估的能力，在社区中建立长期的复原力 有害物质对人类健康的担忧。在每个目标下提出的活动是一致的 利用现有的、有良好记录的利益攸关方优先事项，并在之前与社区合作伙伴完成的工作基础上再接再厉。 此外，中央协调委员会的预防/干预活动特别支持超级基金的第四项任务，即 包括“减少有害物质的量和毒性的基本生物、化学和物理方法” 物质“，通过制定循证战略和强调邻里尺度 提供绿色基础设施，以提高复原力并减轻危险和污染影响。CEC 将让社区合作伙伴参与整个活动周期，从研究设计到数据收集、开发 复原力战略，将调查结果传达给所有利益攸关方，并协助执行。

Community Engagement Core (CEC) ABSTRACT The residents of communities located along the Galveston Bay/Houston Ship Channel (GB/HSC) region have been shown to have excess risk of exposures to hazardous substances as a result of various environmental and anthropogenic disasters. In addition to the physical and environmental vulnerabilities, many of the residents of these communities are also socially vulnerable. Community engagement can provide a link between the adaptive capacities of a community—the human, financial, political, and social resources that enable proactive behavior and the combined strength of local plans and policies—and its responses and changes after disasters. An engaged community has greater resilience and is better able to anticipate future threats and prepare for and recover from adverse events. The Texas A&M University Superfund Research Center is focused on development, application, and translation of a comprehensive set of tools and models that will aid in mitigating the human health consequences of exposures to hazardous substances during environmental emergency- related contamination events. Accordingly, the Community Engagement Core (CEC) will develop, test and implement a set of data-driven community engagement projects focused on fostering local resilience through disaster research response activities. Work in the CEC will be based on locally-driven needs and grounded in exposure science and multidisciplinary environmental health research. The CEC is working in close partnership with a large number of local organizations, planners, other stakeholders, and residents. Specifically, we will pursue four community engagement aims: 1) Engage community members to determine the factors that influence and can improve environmental conditions for communities to proactively plan and manage future environmental risk related to emergency contamination; 2) Develop collaborative, participatory-based interventions aimed at reducing exposure during environmental emergencies; 3) Develop and implement citizen science tools for community engagement to reduce the amount and toxicity of hazardous substances; and 4) Build long-term resilience in the communities by creating capacity for detection, assessment, and evaluation of the human health concerns from hazardous substances. The activities proposed under each Aim are aligned with existing, and well-documented, stakeholder priorities and build on prior work done with community partners. Further, the prevention/intervention activities in the CEC specifically support Superfund’s fourth mandate which includes "basic biological, chemical, and physical methods to reduce the amount and toxicity of hazardous substances” through the development of evidence-based strategies and an emphasis on neighborhood-scaled green infrastructure provisions to increase resilience and mitigate hazard and contamination impacts. The CEC will involve community partners in the entire cycle of activities, from study design, to data collection, developing resilience strategies, communication of the findings to all stakeholders, and assistance with implementation.