Core E: Community Outreach Core

社区外展核心促进环境健康和司法外展和教育， 罗得岛是一个人口稠密的小州，长期以来一直受到工业活动的影响。其程序 通过在多个层面上与各种 选区，包括社区组织、州和联邦政府机构， EPA，ATSDR和RI环境管理部，以及我们和其他大学。核心 追求四个具体目标。1)我们将继续在环境健康和正义方面密切合作 与我们的社区合作伙伴组织（环境邻里）一起开展教育和推广活动 蒂弗顿意识委员会、伍纳斯夸塔基特河流域理事会和环境正义 罗得岛联盟）以及其他社区团体解决学校选址等问题， 棕地外联核心将继续帮助发展这些组织的能力， 倡导对现有有毒废物场地进行补救，并防止未来的污染。2)我们将 将我们为期4周的课后环境健康教育模块扩展到美国的初中和高中， 6伍纳斯夸塔基特河流域城镇，并推出课后/晚上社区环境 青少年和成人学院，提供广泛的环境健康和正义的免费课程 问题. 3)我们将继续与6个市政府，2个州机构，3个环保局办公室， 2个州的立法者制定关于补救和再利用的全面环境立法， 加强现有立法，如ECHO污染地区住房贷款计划，并促进 学校选址的替代模式。4)我们将把我们的工作传达给更广泛的布朗社区， 还促进和扩大教师，本科生和研究生的意识和参与， 社区环境健康和正义问题。我们将继续促进我们的社区 合作伙伴对课程的贡献，并与学生和教师分享他们的经验， 鼓励学生与我们的合作伙伴一起参与研究项目。核心领导人菲尔博士 布朗，致力于他的职业生涯相结合的学术奖学金，社区服务，教学， 指导，帮助社区组织在他们的运动，环境健康和正义。

The Community Outreach Core promotes environmental health and justice outreach and education across Rhode Island, a small, densely populated state burdened by a long history of industrial activity. Its program complements the SBRP's focus on a state-based approach by working on multiple levels with a variety of constituencies, including community-based organizations, state and federal government agencies such as EPA, ATSDR, and Rl Department of Environmental Management, and our and other universities. The Core pursues four specific aims. 1) We will continue to work closely on environmental health and justice education and outreach with our community-based partner organizations (Environmental Neighborhood Awareness Committee of Tiverton.Woonasquatucket River Watershed Council, and Environmental Justice League of Rhode Island) as well as with other community groups addressing issue such as school siting on brownfields. The Outreach Core will continue to help develop the capacity of these organizations to advocate for remediation of existing toxic waste sites and the prevention of future contamination. 2) We will expand our 4-week after-school environmental health education module into middle and high schools in the 6 Woonasquatucket River watershed towns, and launch an after-school/evening Community Environmental College for teenagers and adults, offering free classes on a wide range of environmental health and justice issues. 3) We will continue to work with 6 municipal governments, 2 state agencies, 3 EPA offices, and legislators in 2 states to develop comprehensive environmental legislation on remediation and reuse, strengthen existing legislation such as the ECHO home loan program for contaminated areas, and promote alternative models for school siting. 4) We will communicate our work to the broader Brown community, and also promote and broaden faculty, undergraduate, and graduate student awareness of and involvement in community environmental health and justice issues. We will continue to both promote our community partners' contributions to courses and sharing of their experiences with students and faculty as well as encourage students to work with our partners on participatory research projects. The Core leader, Dr. Phil Brown, has dedicated his career to combining academic scholarship, community service, teaching, and mentorship that helps community organizations in their campaigns for environmental health and justice.