Community Outreach and Engagement:

Stakeholder Advisory Board

Recommendations on Future Directions

  1. Develop a dialogue and a framework for communication between Health and Environmental Protection agencies, and with Planning, Real Estate, Economic Development and other organizations
  2. Advocate improvements in the permitting process.  Facilitate incorporation of health considerations into the regulatory process, accounting for health impacts on the potentially affected community?
  3. Develop an inventory of environmental and health exposure data for target communities; enhance cooperative use of these data by both Environmental Protection and Health agencies
  4. Promote community environmental health assessments that can be used for permitting, zoning, planning, and other land use decisions with public health consequences
  5. Continue COEC partnerships with communities and attendance at community meetings; provide information and choices to communities, without following a predetermined agenda
    1. Address past and present problems as economic development of communities occurs; promote examination of long and short-term consequences of economic improvement, consider case studies
    2. Focus on the health of the community, which has residents of different ages, races, health issues, and vulnerabilities as opposed to just a single disease
  6. Provide information to networks of people; promote educational dialogues
    1. Develop conferences that include communities, regulators, and other agencies, such as a conference on the permitting and zoning process
    2. Hold regional conferences with Federal, State, and municipal officials, as well as the Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission (DVRPC), businesses, and the community; on pertinent topics
  7. Work to increase the number of health professionals knowledgeable about community environmental health issues

 

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