Core--Community outreach/education

重要的是，教育人们为自己和家人做出个人健康选择，并在做出这些选择时应用对科学和经济原则的有效理解。同样重要的是，受过教育的人能够区分相关的健康问题，并形成关于健康促进和保健的开明的公共政策意见。然而，有各种文化和社会障碍阻碍了传统的外联和教育工作。许多族裔群体因文化、语言和规范而与世隔绝，这往往使他们与西方的健康标准不一致。社区外展和教育中心（COEC）的总体目标是确保TTURC能够接触到各民族人口，并向目标地区的服务提供者传播烟草研究的最新信息。具体而言，COEC将确定关键的结构联系和现有的服务模式和资源，以便：便利接触到TTURC所针对的族裔人口，特别是亚洲/太平洋岛民、西班牙裔/拉丁裔和青年;。向决策者、公共、私营和社区组织传播新的烟草控制研究信息，并协助这些机构将这些信息融入其服务提供中;。告知社区对烟草使用和控制的需求和意见，以帮助确定未来的TTURC项目;。确定有可能接受TTURC培训的学生，在社区从事烟草控制工作。该委员会的目标是促进接触目标人群，并传播技术、使用和康复中心的研究成果。必须指出的是，该计划建立在与洛杉矶县、加州州和环太平洋地区的各种目标社区以前和正在进行的合作的基础上。这些策略已被证明是成功的其他计划项目赠款由COEC的工作人员。

It is important that people be educate to make personal health choices for themselves and their families, and to apply a working understanding of scientific and economic principles in making these choices. It is important as well that educated people be able to discriminate relevant health issues and form enlightened public policy opinions regarding health promotion and health care. However, there are a variety of cultural and society barriers that impedes traditional outreach and education efforts. Many ethnic groups are isolated by culture, language and norms often making them at odds with Western health standards. The overall goal of the Community outreach and Education Core (COEC) is to insure TTURC has access to the various ethnic populations, and to disseminate the latest information in tobacco research to the service providers in the target areas. Specifically, the COEC will identify key structural linkages and existing service patterns and resources to: . facilitate access to the ethnic populations targeted by the TTURC, particularly Asian/Pacific Islanders, Hispanic/Latino and youth; . disseminate new tobacco control research information to policy makers, public, private and community-based organizations and assist these agencies in infusing this information into their service provision; . inform the TTURC of the communities' need and opinions concerning tobacco use and control to assist in determining future TTURC project; . identify potential students who could be trained by the TTURC to work in the community in tobacco control. The COEC objectives have been formulated to facilitate access to the target populations and disseminated the results of the TTURC research efforts. It is important to note that this plan builds upon previous and ongoing collaboration with the various targeting communities extending from Los Angeles County, the State of California and the Pacific Rim region. These strategies have proven to be successful in other program project grants by COEC staff.