Community Engagement Core

社区参与核心（CEC）摘要 位于沿着加尔维斯顿湾/休斯顿船舶通道（GB/HSC）地区的社区的居民 由于各种环境因素， 人为灾害。除了身体和环境的脆弱性外， 这些社区也是社会弱势群体。社区的参与可以在适应性 社区的能力-使积极行为得以实现的人力、财力、政治和社会资源 以及当地计划和政策的综合力量，以及灾后的反应和变化。一个 参与的社区具有更强的复原力，能够更好地预测未来的威胁， 从不良事件中恢复。德克萨斯A&M大学超级基金研究中心专注于 开发、应用和翻译一套全面的工具和模型，以帮助减轻 在环境紧急情况下接触危险物质对人类健康的后果- 相关污染事件。因此，社区参与核心（CEC）将开发，测试和 实施一套以数据为驱动的社区参与项目，重点是通过以下方式促进地方复原力： 灾害研究应对活动。中央选举委员会的工作将以当地需求为基础， 暴露科学和多学科环境健康研究。中央选举委员会正在密切合作 与大量的当地组织、规划者、其他利益相关者和居民一起。具体来说，我们将 追求四个社区参与目标：1）让社区成员参与确定 影响并改善环境条件，使社区能够积极规划和管理未来 与紧急污染有关的环境风险; 2）开发协作，基于参与的 旨在减少环境紧急情况期间接触的干预措施; 3）制定和实施公民 用于社区参与的科学工具，以减少危险物质的数量和毒性;以及4） 通过建立检测、评估和评价能力， 有害物质对人类健康的影响。在每个目标下提议的活动是一致的 与现有的、有充分记录的利益攸关方优先事项相结合，并以先前与社区合作伙伴一起完成的工作为基础。 此外，中央应急中心的预防/干预活动特别支持超级基金的第四项任务， 包括“基本的生物、化学和物理方法，以减少有害物质的数量和毒性， 通过制定以证据为基础的战略和强调社区规模， 提供绿色基础设施，以提高复原力并减轻危害和污染影响。中央选举委员会 将让社区合作伙伴参与整个活动周期，从研究设计到数据收集， 复原力战略，向所有利益攸关方通报调查结果，并协助执行。

Community Engagement Core (CEC) ABSTRACT The residents of communities located along the Galveston Bay/Houston Ship Channel (GB/HSC) region have been shown to have excess risk of exposures to hazardous substances as a result of various environmental and anthropogenic disasters. In addition to the physical and environmental vulnerabilities, many of the residents of these communities are also socially vulnerable. Community engagement can provide a link between the adaptive capacities of a community—the human, financial, political, and social resources that enable proactive behavior and the combined strength of local plans and policies—and its responses and changes after disasters. An engaged community has greater resilience and is better able to anticipate future threats and prepare for and recover from adverse events. The Texas A&M University Superfund Research Center is focused on development, application, and translation of a comprehensive set of tools and models that will aid in mitigating the human health consequences of exposures to hazardous substances during environmental emergency- related contamination events. Accordingly, the Community Engagement Core (CEC) will develop, test and implement a set of data-driven community engagement projects focused on fostering local resilience through disaster research response activities. Work in the CEC will be based on locally-driven needs and grounded in exposure science and multidisciplinary environmental health research. The CEC is working in close partnership with a large number of local organizations, planners, other stakeholders, and residents. Specifically, we will pursue four community engagement aims: 1) Engage community members to determine the factors that influence and can improve environmental conditions for communities to proactively plan and manage future environmental risk related to emergency contamination; 2) Develop collaborative, participatory-based interventions aimed at reducing exposure during environmental emergencies; 3) Develop and implement citizen science tools for community engagement to reduce the amount and toxicity of hazardous substances; and 4) Build long-term resilience in the communities by creating capacity for detection, assessment, and evaluation of the human health concerns from hazardous substances. The activities proposed under each Aim are aligned with existing, and well-documented, stakeholder priorities and build on prior work done with community partners. Further, the prevention/intervention activities in the CEC specifically support Superfund’s fourth mandate which includes "basic biological, chemical, and physical methods to reduce the amount and toxicity of hazardous substances” through the development of evidence-based strategies and an emphasis on neighborhood-scaled green infrastructure provisions to increase resilience and mitigate hazard and contamination impacts. The CEC will involve community partners in the entire cycle of activities, from study design, to data collection, developing resilience strategies, communication of the findings to all stakeholders, and assistance with implementation.