Community Engagement Core

社区参与核心：项目总结/摘要 社区参与核心（CEC）支持南加州环境健康的使命 科学中心（SCEHSC）通过社区合作伙伴的参与， 确定和解决南加州（CA）环境对人类健康影响的过程。的 CEC是与社区接触的国家领导者和典范，特别是那些 主要是拉丁裔、亚洲/太平洋岛民和非洲裔美国人，他们生活在经济困难之中， 社会和环境差异造成的不成比例的不利健康后果。CEC的主要目标 受众包括社区，主要通过社区组织，以及 决策者和卫生专业人员应对：（a）与交通有关的空气污染及其对健康的影响， 它直接从SCEHSC的关键研究结果发展而来，研究结果显示空气污染是南加州的一个问题。 主要的环境卫生问题;（B）对货物运输设施的健康影响的关注， 包括海港、铁路站场和内陆仓库;以及（c）更广泛的健康和新出现的空气质量 土地使用决定引起的问题，例如将工业区设在住宅和学校附近， 多民族的景观。在过去的24年里，中央选举委员会制定了一个成功的模式，听取 社区组织和决策者参与解决环境问题 与南加州交通和货物流动有关的健康差异。在当前周期，我们建立在 这种方法整合了新的方法来培训居民和卫生专业人员参与空气 监测，与多个利益相关者合作，评估和减少社区的有毒空气排放 规模，并扩大我们的参与计划，以解决各地工业设施日益增长的问题， 本地区我们利用传统和非传统的通信技术，如数字故事地图， 社交媒体和信息图表，以更新利益相关者对当前科学的了解，并吸引社区的力量 减轻EH负担。在下一个周期，我们的目标是：1）促进一个多方向的沟通结构， 促进互动，分享SCEHSC的研究成果和参与模式与地方/区域/国家 观众，并增加SCEHSC调查人员对社区关注的理解， 社区顾问; 2）从环境健康差异中建立社区组织的能力 应对环境健康负担，并通过社区解决这些负担 科学和公共政策; 3）通过利用SCEHSC向当地和国家受众传播研究成果 创新的沟通方法，为预期的目标定制印刷和网络材料和资源， 受众，并通过社交媒体扩大我们的影响力，以及4）通过以下方式评估CEC活动的成功 逻辑模型以及形成性和总结性评价。

COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT CORE: PROJECT SUMMARY/ABSTRACT The Community Engagement Core (CEC) supports the mission of the Southern California Environmental Health Sciences Center (SCEHSC) through engagement of community partners in a collaborative multidirectional process to identify and address the effects of the environment on human health in Southern California (CA). The CEC serves as a national leader in and model for engagement with communities—especially those which consist primarily of Latinx, Asian/Pacific Islander and African-Americans living under economic hardship and facing disproportionate adverse health outcomes from social and environmental disparities. The CEC primary target audiences include communities, primarily reached through community-based organizations, together with policymakers and health professionals to address: (a) transportation-related air pollution and impacts on health, which has evolved directly from key SCEHSC research findings showing air pollution to be one of Southern CA’s leading environmental health issues; (b) concerns about health impacts from goods movement facilities, including marine ports, railyards and inland warehouses; and (c) broader health and emerging air quality concerns arising from land-use decisions such as locating industries adjacent to homes and schools across the multiethnic landscape. Over the past 24 years, the CEC has developed a successful model to listen to the community and engage community-based organizations and decision-makers in addressing environmental health disparities related to traffic and goods movement in Southern CA. During the current cycle, we built on this approach to integrate novel methods to train residents and health professionals in participatory air monitoring, to collaborate with multiple stakeholders to assess and reduce toxic air emissions at a neighborhood scale, and to expand our engagement program to address growing concerns around industrial facilities across the region. We leverage traditional and nontraditional communications techniques such as digital StoryMaps, social media, and infographics to update stakeholders on current science and engage the power of communities to reduce EH burdens. In this next cycle we aim to: 1) Facilitate a multidirectional communication structure that fosters interaction, share SCEHSC research findings and engagement models with local/regional/national audiences, and increase SCEHSC investigators’ understanding of community concerns with guidance from our community advisors; 2) Build capacity of community organizations from environmental health disparity populations to respond to environmental health burdens and to address those burdens through community science and public policy; 3) Disseminate SCEHSC research findings to local & national audiences by utilizing innovative communication methods, tailoring print and web-based materials and resources for intended audiences, and amplifying our reach through social media, and 4) Evaluate the success of CEC activities through logic models and formative and summative evaluations.