The Outreach Core supports community groups in a variety of ways, in order to provide up to date environmental health information and access to Southwest Environmental Health researchers for presentations, information, and to answer questions of concern to groups and individuals. Examples include:

• Membership on the Unified Community Action Board of the TCE Superfund Cleanup site in Tucson, supporting them in their desire to teach local high school students about the TCE (trichloroethylene) contamination and cleanup with an interdisciplinary curriculum http://coep.pharmacy.arizona.edu/tce/index.html
• Providing a number of environmental health presentations to senior citizens at the Oasis Center, which sponsors classes and lectures aimed at the rapidly growing elder population through the Mature Learners program.
• Advisor, concerning community outreach, to the Joint Air Toxics Assessment Project (JATAP), which monitors air quality in South Phoenix and several American Indian communities in the Phoenix valley.
• Information Walks at community events
• Presentations to small and large community meetings

Public Activities

The Asthma and Allergies Information Walk located at http://coep.pharmacy.arizona.edu/hope2/aa_hops.html, the goal of this activity is to promote science learning, to young people and to the general public, using a stations approach. Used to teach about asthma and allergies at the University of Arizona Saturday Academy in 2005 Was presented by students of Catalina Health Magnet High School to over 1000 students at the annual Health Fair of their school in 2006.

The Greater Community

• At Tucson’s citywide FunFest the COEC reaches 250 students and adults each year using an educational and entertaining activity, Lemons and Onions, based on ToxRAP. http://coep.pharmacy.arizona.edu/curriculum/lemons_onions/index.html.
• The Asthma and Allergies Museum Walk was also presented to the public in May of 2006 at the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum.

The COEC does presentations at Oasis - a local senior center

• A senior center that sponsors classes and lectures aimed at the rapidly growing elder population through the Mature Learners program.
• Each semester the COEC provides information and education in this venue.
• The fall 2006 lecture was “Asthma and Allergies in Southern Arizona”,
• Other topics have been, “An Introduction to Environmental Health”, “Chemicals and Human Health”, and “Toxic Substances in our Homes.”

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