Community Engagement Core

社区参与核心摘要 社区参与核心（CEC）是成功传播调查结果的核心。 环境健康差异MADRES中心（“MADRES中心”）的研究项目，并 结合社区知识，可能是信息的研究过程。CEC将作为 MADRES中心与相关利益攸关方之间的桥梁，包括那些关注消除 肥胖症的种族/民族差异，重点是幼儿和孕妇。主要合作伙伴包括 关注儿童健康、青年领导力发展和环境正义的非营利组织， 以及县卫生局四个选定的目标地区-博伊尔高地，商业城， 城市露台和东洛杉矶-都被选为他们显着的环境健康差异。 中央教育委员会将制定一项适合文化的传播计划，以分享科学知识，包括 通过使用社交媒体和视觉信息图表（“信息图表”），针对这四个 洛杉矶的社区。CEC还将为孕妇、新妈妈和 地区居民关注影响0-5岁儿童的问题，以加强他们的环境卫生 围绕环境健康差异和可能影响其健康或儿童健康的污染物进行扫盲 他们的孩子CEC将为青年开展创新培训工作，以提高青年环境健康 利用社区绘图，了解环境污染物对其社区的影响 关于社区研究的练习和培训，供参与者探索有关其社区的数据 以及周围的建筑环境。最后，CEC将确定可能的社区干预措施 未来的合作伙伴。对于我们的一些活动，我们计划使用前测试和后测试。这些将是 匿名，并将使我们能够看到知识的变化之前和之后，我们的培训课程， 工作坊.

COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT CORE ABSTRACT The Community Engagement Core (CEC) is central to the successful dissemination of findings from the research projects in this MADRES Center for Environmental Health Disparities (“MADRES Center”), and to incorporating community knowledge that may be informative for the research process. The CEC will serve as a bridge between the MADRES Center and relevant stakeholders, including those concerned about eliminating racial/ethnic disparities in obesity, focused on young children and pregnant women. Key partners include nonprofit organizations focused on children's health, youth leadership development, and environmental justice, as well as the County health department. The four selected target areas—Boyle Heights, City of Commerce, City Terrace and East Los Angeles—were all chosen for their significant environmental health disparities. The CEC will develop a culturally-appropriate dissemination plan for sharing scientific knowledge, including through the use of social media and visually informative graphics (“infographics”), targeted to these four communities in Los Angeles. The CEC will also develop programs for pregnant women, new mothers, and area residents concerned about issues affecting 0-5 age children to strengthen their environmental health literacy around environmental health disparities and contaminants that may impact their health or the health of their babies. The CEC will develop innovative training efforts for youth to raise youth environmental health literacy about the impacts of environmental contaminants in their communities, using community mapping exercises and trainings on community-based research for participants to explore data about their community and the surrounding built environment. Finally, the CEC will identify possible interventions with the community partners for future implementation. For some of our activities we plan to use pre-and post-tests. These will be anonymous and will allow us to see changes in knowledge before and after our training sessions and workshops.