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塔夫茨大学与其合作伙伴移民服务提供者集团(ISPG)作为以社区为基础的 作为医疗保健提供者，该组织和剑桥健康联盟将实施一项为期四年的三部分 马萨诸塞州萨默维尔解决移民工人职业健康风险的计划。萨默维尔，被称为 “门户”社区，因为移民人口和社区组织的多样性以及 其移民人口的显著时间变化代表了这一活动的独特实验室。例如, 该项目利用现有的针对移民的同龄人青年和成人教育培训和宣传方案。这些 ISPG(海地联盟、拉丁裔联盟和 萨默维尔社区行动局)，涉及从烟草使用到环境环境危害等一系列问题。我们 提议扩大这些成功的影响，以设计一种可持续的、以社区为基础的评估能力， 确定并减少移民人口的职业健康风险。此外，我们认为，正是这种结构 工作安排影响到诸如移民赋权和可持续发展等关键问题。 旨在减少职业伤害、疾病和死亡的影响的干预措施。因此，我们建议 启动绿色清洁合作社试点，解决女性移民工人遇到的职业风险 从事家政服务。我们项目的这一方面将利用协作的工作来更好地工作 马萨诸塞大学洛厄尔分校和巴西大学的巴西环境(蛛网)项目 波士顿的移民中心。此外，马萨诸塞州职业安全与健康联盟(MassCOSH)将 通过向这笔赠款提供职业内容、材料和培训，成为关键的合作伙伴。麻省理工学院合作伙伴关系 建立到位于马萨诸塞州多切斯特的另一个工作和环境项目的链接。我们提议的项目建立在 我们的合作伙伴(同行领导)过去的成功，并利用在附近项目中所做的投资。我们将使用 年度移民职业评估，以确定萨默维尔的需求和最佳做法，并积极寻求 将这一信息传播到其他有大量移民人口的城镇，与 马萨诸塞州环境事务执行办公室和波士顿公共卫生委员会。

Tufts University, in concert with its partners, the Immigrant Service Providers Group (ISPG) as the community-based organization and the Cambridge Health Allianceas the health care provider will implement a four-year, three-part program to address occupational health risks to immigrant workers in Somerville, MA. Somerville, known as a "gateway" community due to the diverse variety of immigrant populations and community organizations, as well as remarkable temporal shifts in its immigrant population, represents a unique laboratory for this activity. For example, this project leverages existing peer youth and adult educational training and advocacy programs for immigrants. These programs have been successfully implemented by members of the ISPG (Haitian Coalition, Latino Coalition, and the Community Action Agency of Somerville) on issues ranging from tobacco use to ambient environmental hazards. We propose to extend the impact of these successes in designinga sustainable, community-based capability to assess, characterize, and reduce occupational health risks in immigrant populations. Further, we believe that the very structure and organization of work influences such key issues such as immigrant empowerment and the sustainability of interventions aimed at lessening the impact of occupational injury, illness and mortality. As a result, we propose to launch a pilot Green Cleaning Cooperative to address occupational risks encountered by female immigrant workers engaged in domestic services. This aspect of our project will leverage the work of the Collaboration for Better Work Environment for Brazilians (COBWEB) project based at the University of Massachusetts Lowell and at the Brazilian Immigrant Center in Boston. Also, the Massachusetts Coalition for Occupational Safety and Health (MassCOSH) will be a key partner by contributingoccupational content, materials and trainingto this grant. The MassCOSH partnership establishes a link to another work and environment project based in Dorchester, MA. Our proposed project builds upon past successes of our partners (peer leadership) and leverages investments made in nearby projects. We will use an annual immigrant occupational assessment to identify needs and best practices in Somerville and actively seek to disseminate this information to other cities and towns with substantial immigrantpopulations in concert with the Massachusetts Executive Office of Environmental Affairs and the Boston Public Health Commission.