Community Engagement Core

项目总结 社区参与核心(CEC)的目的是确保通过 全球多种环境应激源暴露与健康影响差异研究中心 生命历程是由受影响最大的个人和社区提供信息、回应并最终服务的 环境健康差距。我们将与两个社区组织合作开展这项工作 切尔西和马萨诸塞州波士顿的居民。中央协调委员会的活动将实现其两个总体目标： (1)通过与中心调查人员、社区组织合作，加强环境健康素养 与我们目标社区的个别成员建立相互理解的科学研究 每日暴露于室内和室外空气污染，并结合非化学应激源在 邻里环境和家庭内部，促成环境健康差距，并确定 干预和预防的机会；以及(2)促进社区之间的沟通 利益相关者和中心调查人员，包括为社区合作伙伴提供设计培训， 开展、解释、评估和传播研究及相关产品 超越与我们中心关系最密切的健康状况迥异的社区。CEC的活动包括 重点完成：目标1：为招募的社区居民设计、实施和评估培训 通过与项目2调查人员和CEC合作伙伴合作，参与项目2的研究 为切尔西和多切斯特的居民制定适当和有效的招聘战略。我们还将设计 并评估对社区调查人员在我们的研究目标、方法和家庭基础上的培训 环境监测，将为未来以家庭为基础的环境监测研究提供信息。目标2， 评估和告知项目1和3化学和非化学应激源结构，将通过以下方式完成 切尔西和多切斯特正式的利益相关者焦点小组，候选人在此期间构建压力源 由项目3调查人员确定的将与社区成员的压力源关注的问题进行比较。我们会 还组织社区会议，分享切尔西和多切斯特的累积风险模型结果 创新和吸引人的沟通方法，也将被评估为风险沟通 文学。最后，目标3将侧重于开发适合文化的教育材料， 翻译项目1-3和中心试点项目的目标和结果，以改善环境健康 识字，同时降低马萨诸塞州切尔西和多尔切斯特人口及其以外的风险。这将是 与中心调查人员和CEC合作伙伴密切合作，制定适当的材料 将中心研究的目标和结果传达给利益相关者，包括与 项目1(CARDIA研究和儿童健康观察网站)利用了四项队列研究。

PROJECT SUMMARY The purpose of the Community Engagement Core (CEC) is to ensure that the research conducted via the Center for Disparities in Exposure and Health Effects of Multiple Environmental Stressors Across the Life Course is informed by, responsive to, and ultimately serves individuals and communities most affected by environmental health disparities. We will do this in partnership with two community organizations serving residents in Chelsea and Boston, Massachusetts. Activities of the CEC will carry out its two overarching goals: (1) Strengthen environmental health literacy by working with Center investigators, community organizations and individual members of our target communities to create a mutual understanding of how scientific research on daily exposure to indoor and outdoor air pollution, combined with non-chemical stressors in the neighborhood environment and within the home, contribute to environmental health disparities, and identify opportunities for intervention and prevention; and (2) Facilitate communication between and among community stakeholders and Center investigators, including for the purpose of training community partners in the design, conduct, interpretation, evaluation and dissemination of research, and the associated products, within and beyond the health-disparate communities most closely affiliated with our Center. Activities of the CEC are focused on accomplishing: Aim 1: Design, implement and evaluate trainings for community residents recruited to participate in Project 2 research by working with Project 2 investigators and CEC partners to develop appropriate and effective recruitment strategies for residents of Chelsea and Dorchester. We will also design and evaluate trainings for community investigators on our research aims, methods and in home-based environmental monitoring which will inform future home-based environmental monitoring studies. Aim 2, evaluate and inform Project 1 and 3 chemical and non-chemical stressor constructs, will be accomplished via formal stakeholder focus groups in Chelsea and Dorchester during which candidate stressor constructs identified by Project 3 investigators will be compared with stressor concerns of community members. We will also organize community sessions to share results of cumulative risk models in Chelsea and Dorchester using innovative and engaging communication methods which will also be evaluated for the risk communication literature. Finally, Aim 3 will focus on the development of culturally appropriate educational materials that translate the aims and findings of Projects 1-3, and Center pilot programs, to improve environmental health literacy while reducing risk in and beyond the populations of Chelsea and Dorchester, Massachusetts. This will involve close collaboration with Center investigators and CEC partners to develop materials that appropriately communicate the aims and findings of Center studies to stakeholders, including partners associated with the four cohort studies being leveraged in Project 1 (the CARDIA study and Children’s Health Watch sites).