Core--Community Outreach and Education Program

描述(改编自申请者)：COEP的目标是提供环境健康 提供信息和制定教育方案，以满足确定的社区需求。 中心教职员工积极参与COEP在社区论坛和教师研讨会上的演讲，协助课程开发，或参与社区咨询委员会，以反映中心S关于环境制剂作为疾病过程调节器的研究主题。外展工作跨越整个社区，从儿童到老年人，从农村居民到城市居民。除了社区咨询委员会，COEP社区外展计划还包括铅中毒预防计划、职业和卫生保健提供者外展、社区讲座、时事通讯和网站。COEP科学教育推广计划包括三个主要计划：我的环境，我的健康，我的选择？，这是一个为初中生开设的环境健康课程；Begin项目，它涉及环境健康科学中基因研究的伦理、法律和社会影响；以及生命科学学习中心，本身由五个计划组成-实验室调查，实验室技能发展计划，星期六晨报科学，暑期科学夏令营和教师研讨会。许多. 这些COEP计划是中心内的新举措，自1999年NIEHS中心拨款续签以来发展起来的。

Description (adapted from applicant): The goal of the COEP is to provide environmental health information and developing educational programs in response to identified community needs. Reflecting the Center?s research theme on environmental agents as modulators of disease processes, Center faculty are actively involved in COEP delivering presentations at community forums and teacher workshops, assisting in curriculum development, or participating in the Community Advisory Board. Outreach efforts span the entire range of the community, from children to older adults, from rural to urban residents. In addition to the Community Advisory Board, the COEP Community Outreach Initiatives include a Lead Poisoning Prevention Program, Occupational and Health Care Provider Outreach, Community Lectures, Newsletters, and Web Site. The COEP Science Education Outreach Initiatives include three main programs: ?My Environment, My Health, My Choices?, an Environmental Health Curriculum for middle and high school students; Project Begin which involves the ethical, legal, and social implications of genetic research in environmental health sciences; and the Life Sciences Learning Center, itself comprised of five programs?Laboratory Investigations, Lab Skills Development Program, Saturday Morning Science, Summer Science Camps, and Teacher Workshops. Many of these COEP programs are new initiatives within the Center, developed since the 1999 NIEHS Center grant renewal.