Community Engagement Core: Community-University Partnerships for Environmental

项目总结(见说明)： 社区参与核心(CEC)是一个社区-大学合作伙伴关系，旨在帮助减少危险废物跨境流动的暴露，并改善圣地亚哥-提华纳市地区的环境公共健康。CEC将利用以社区为基础的参与性进程，与社区领导人接触并向他们学习如何最好地协助建设弱势社区的能力，以确定、优先处理和解决与超级基金有关的环境健康危害和问题。我们将在CEC咨询委员会的帮助下完成这项工作，该委员会由活跃在美墨边境地区的社区领袖、科学家、政府官员和几个草根环境组织组成。我们的建议有四个目标： (1)与我们的社区合作伙伴协商，根据文献、研讨会、现有的实地研究(例如，危险废物流动的源头追踪)以及我们的研究翻译核心对土壤、沉积物和水的一些测试，编制和更新提华纳-圣地亚哥边境地区的毒物调查和环境健康保护需求评估；(2)与我们的两个主要社区合作伙伴Casa Famar(圣地亚哥)和Alter Terra(提华纳)合作，推出一系列社区研讨会，题为“让科学成为问题；社区-大学参与建设更健康的社会”。这些研讨会将把社区领导人、专家和科学家聚集在一起进行双向学习体验，社区从我们的SRP了解相关的翻译科学，我们从社区了解他们的地区需求、优先事项和关注的问题，以帮助制定未来的研究方向，并探索处理超级基金有毒物质暴露的环境健康问题的解决方案。我们的社区合作伙伴确定了两个令人担忧的领域，包括：(1)由于不受控制的危险废物处置而造成的污染，以及人们自己种植食物的地区的土壤污染；(3)与我们的社区合作伙伴共同创造个人和团队为本科生和研究生设计和开展以社区为基础的服务学习项目的机会；以及(4)在洛斯劳雷斯峡谷纪录片的成功基础上，我们将与我们的社区合作伙伴共同创作一系列双语(西班牙语-英语)报告、指南和科学交流视频，这些报告、指南和科学交流视频可以作为社区赋权工具。我们的进展将在我们的外部咨询委员会的投入下，每年使用逻辑模型进行系统评估。我们将与边境社区、美国环保局、ATSDR、PEPH和NIEHS社区参与网络分享我们的进展和经验教训。

PROJECT SUMMARY (See instructions): The Community Engagement Core (CEC) is a community-university partnership to help reduce exposures to cross border flows of hazardous wastes and to improve environmental public health in the San Diego-Tijuana city-region. The CEC will utilize community-based participatory processes to engage and learn from community leaders how best to assist in building the capacity of vulnerable communities to identify, prioritize and address Superfund-related environmental health hazards and issues. We will do this with the help of a CEC advisory committee composed of community leaders, scientists, government officials and several grassroots environmental organizations active in the U.S.-Mexico border region. Our proposal has four aims: (1) In consultation with our community partners, produce and update a toxicant survey and environmental health protection needs assessment for the Tijuana-San Diego border region based on literature, workshops, existing field research (e.g., source tracking of hazardous waste flows), and some testing of soil, sediment and water by our Research Translation Core; (2) Launch a series of community workshops in partnership with Casa Familiar (San Diego) and Alter Terra (Tijuana), our two lead community-based partners, titled "Making Science Matter; Community-University Engagement for a Healthier Society." These workshops will bring community leaders, experts and scientists together in a two-way learning experience where the community learns about the relevant translational science from our SRP, and we learn from the communities their regional needs, priorities and concerns to help develop future research directions as well as explore the solutions to environmental health issues dealing with Superfund toxicant exposures. Two areas of concern identified by our community partners include the contamination taking place as a result of uncontrolled hazardous waste disposal, and soil contamination in areas where people are growing their own food; (3) Cocreate with our community partners individual and team-based opportunities for undergraduate and graduate students to design and carry out community-based service learning projects, and (4) Building on the success of the Los Laureles Canyon documentary we will co-author a series of bilingual (Spanish-English) reports, guides and science communication videos with our community partners that can serve as community empowerment tools. Our progress will be systematically evaluated using a logic model on an annual basis with input from our external advisory committee. We will share our progress and lessons learned with border communities, the U.S.EPA, ATSDR, PEPH, and the NIEHS Community Engagement network.