The UW SBRP Community Outreach Core has a long history of working with government agencies, Tribal Nations, community groups, health professionals, and individual stakeholders to address environmental problems of concern, primarily in the state of Washington. The Community Outreach Core will continue its mission of establishing collaborative projects among the groups described above. During the next 5 years, the scope of our activities will broaden to include new Superfund sites and new collaborations. The Community Outreach Core has also had a very active program in the area of k-12 environmental health education, working with teachers and students throughout the State of Washington. The focus on k-12 education will not continue during the next 5 years. Other programs within the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, however, will continue their strong commitment to k-12 environmental health education.
The specific aims of the Community Outreach Core are to: 1) Continue and expand our collaborative projects aimed at environmental and health concerns in a) communities surrounding the Duwamish River Superfund site, b) communities surrounding the Commencement Bay Superfund site, and c) immigrant community members identified via our Environmental Justice Network in Action, 2) Develop new collaborative projects aimed at environmental and health concerns in communities surrounding the Lake Roosevelt Superfund site in Eastern Washington and 3) Expand our partnerships via a new community grants program. Our current activities related to the Duwamish River, Commencement Bay and immigrant community members (East African and Asian Pacific Islander) were developed after extensive consultation with local and state agencies and community groups. The proposed expansion of our activities to Lake Roosevelt was the result of recent conversations with the Washington State Department of Health and US EPA Region 10. The proposed grants program was developed as a result of discussions with various community organizations (Duwamish River Cleanup Coalition and Citizens for a Healthy Bay) that indicated the most acute need for their communities was local funds that could be directed at specific small projects. Our approach has always been to try to build collaborations with agencies responsible for hazardous waste cleanup and health concerns of citizens in conjunction with local community organizations. In this way, we are careful not to interfere with productive relationships aimed at addressing the goal of actively involving the community in the decision-making process.

Agency
National Institute of Health (NIH)
Institute
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS)
Type
Hazardous Substances Basic Research Grants Program (NIEHS) (P42)
Project #
5P42ES004696-21
Application #
7600510
Study Section
Special Emphasis Panel (ZES1)
Project Start
Project End
Budget Start
2008-04-01
Budget End
2009-03-31
Support Year
21
Fiscal Year
2008
Total Cost
$80,941
Indirect Cost
Name
University of Washington
Department
Type
DUNS #
605799469
City
Seattle
State
WA
Country
United States
Zip Code
98195
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