Community Outreach and Engagement Core

项目摘要-社区外展和参与核心 英国阿巴拉契亚环境科学研究中心（UK-CARES） 外联和参与核心（COEC）是：1）提高社区的认识和知识 合作伙伴关于环境健康研究正在进行的中心在整个频谱 从基础科学到社区和人口健康研究; 2）增加社区和利益相关者 参与社区参与的研究，以确定和传达环境问题，以英国- CARES调查员;以及3）增加科学传播方面的公民和学术培训的入学率， 利用社区-学术环境健康科学伙伴关系。在目标1中，我们使用多模态 外展战略（例如，社区活动、媒体宣传、社交媒体、书面材料/网站）， 让社区伙伴参与制定传播计划和文化上适当的外联活动， 消息传递方法。Aim 2使用多方向通道，研究人员可以通过这些通道收听 当地居民和社区利益攸关方组织的需求和关切。策略包括 与社区卫生联盟、环境活动家、工作组、特设工作组 社区团体和医疗机构。在目标3中，我们适应，评估和整合科学 我们的职业发展活动，并确保有效的科学传播 与社区利益相关者合作，并认可社区参与的卓越表现。UK-CARES COEC 独特的定位，领导这一努力，由于我们长期的社区参与的研究伙伴关系， 三个毗邻地区发展区的公民和社区利益相关者组织， 肯塔基州东南部：大桑迪，肯塔基州河和坎伯兰山谷。社区成员识别空气 以及采矿和水力压裂造成的水质影响。我们与五个主要的合作伙伴 社区利益相关者组织（阿巴拉契亚公民法律中心，阿巴拉契亚之声，地区卫生 教育中心、农村战略中心和水源公司）和五名社区居民建议 COEC。COEC重视阿巴拉契亚社区的复杂性和异质性 肯塔基州和他们丰富的遗产，自力更生，和骄傲的地方。COEC与 UK-CARES的组织结构对社区知情中心的决策有直接影响。的 长期目标是建立一个强大的，持续的社区学术伙伴关系，以支持有意义的 社区参与和环境健康素养，利用这些社区观点， 促进对疾病发生、进展、结局中的环境因素的新理解， 社区影响。

PROJECT SUMMARY – Community Outreach and Engagement Core The aims of the UK Center for Appalachian Research in Environmental Sciences (UK-CARES) Community Outreach and Engagement Core (COEC) are to: 1) Increase awareness and knowledge among community partners about the environmental health research being conducted at the Center across the entire spectrum from basic science to community and population health research; 2) Increase community and stakeholder participation in community-engaged research to identify and communicate environmental concerns to UK- CARES investigators; and 3) Increase enrollment in citizen and academic training in science communication to leverage community-academic environmental health science partnerships. In Aim 1, we use multi-modal outreach strategies (e.g., community events, media advocacy, social media, written materials/website) that engage community partners in developing dissemination plans and culturally appropriate outreach and messaging approaches. Aim 2 uses multi-directional channels through which researchers can listen to the needs and concerns of local residents and community stakeholder organizations. Strategies include conducting focus groups with community health coalitions, environmental activists, work groups, ad hoc community groups, and healthcare entities. In Aim 3, we adapt, evaluate, and integrate science communication workshops into our career development activities and ensure effective science communication with community stakeholders, and recognize excellence in community engagement. UK-CARES COEC is uniquely positioned to lead this effort due to our longstanding community-engaged research partnerships with citizens and community stakeholder organizations in three contiguous Area Development Districts located in southeastern Kentucky: Big Sandy, Kentucky River, and Cumberland Valley. Community members identify air and water quality impacts due to mining and fracking as critical concerns. We partner with five major community stakeholder organizations (Appalachian Citizens Law Center, Appalachian Voices, Area Health Education Centers, Center for Rural Strategies, and Headwaters, Inc.) and five community residents to advise the COEC. The COEC values the complex, heterogeneous nature of the communities of Appalachian Kentucky and their rich heritage, self-reliance, and pride of place. The COEC is tightly integrated into the organizational structure of UK-CARES with direct impact on community-informed Center decision making. The long-term goal is to create a strong, sustained community-academic partnership to support meaningful community engagement and environmental health literacy, leveraging these community perspectives to facilitate new understandings of environmental factors in disease initiation, progression, outcomes, and community impacts.