The Community University Consortium for Regional Environmental Justice
 proudly announces

Workshops from the Field 2000:
Community-Based Research for Environmental
May 19th-21st, 2000
Rutgers University, Newark, NJ

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     The Community/University Consortium for Regional Environmental Justice (CUCREJ) invites you to join us for the 2^nd “Workshops from the Field: Community-Based Research for Environmental Justice” Conference at the Rutgers Law School in Newark, New Jersey from Friday, May 19^th to Sunday, May 21^st.  As the environmental justice movement has expanded in the last decade, community-based expertise, research, and campaigns have been responsible for the bulk of the movement’s successes.  Despite the proven success of community-based research, most researchers and policy-makers still fail to consider the community when identifying and addressing environmental justice problems.  Some of the methods and innovations in research developed by our communities are still to foreign to others facing the same issues.

      “Workshops from the Field” seeks to address these problems by focusing on peer training: workshops focused on specific methods used in a variety of community-based research projects that have already been implemented in environmental justice communities around the country.  Each 2-3 hour workshop will focus on two cases where community-based research has been done, providing attendees with a detailed, workshop-specific training workbook for use during the conference and afterward in your work back home.  The conference will also feature key plenaries and a poster/caucus session where researchers, communities, and local governments can highlight their capabilities and needs. 

     There are some exciting changes since our conference last year.  First, in contrast to last year’s issue-based approach, this year’s “Workshops” conference will focus on research methods as they apply to a broad range of environmental justice problems.  For example, where last year we featured a workshop on Community-Based Asthma Research, this year Asthma, as an issue, will be covered in several “methods” workshops, like Community-Based Surveying, Community-Based Exposure Monitoring, etc…

     Second, this year we are offering over 16 different workshops in 10 distinct methods tracks.  We hope that this will keep the average size of a workshop to no more than 25 people so as to ensure that the workshops achieve their goal of training participants. 

     Third, our theme this year is “Getting it Used!”, and we hope to focus on how we can move the groundbreaking research being done by communities into real community and policy change.  Last, but not least, CUCREJ has engaged in a national planning process for this year’s conference that has included every existing Environmental Justice Network in the country, and a number of other organizations committed to research in this area.  We have done this to ensure that the ideas of peer training and community-building around research represented by “Workshops from the Field” will spread throughout the country.  As a result, the next national “Workshops from the Field” conference will almost certainly be hosted in another part of the U.S. 

     The registration deadline is Monday, May 1^st, and the deadline for receipt of scholarship applications (see enclosed) is  Tuesday, April 18^th.  These deadlines are important, but to ensure that workshops are not too full conference registration this year has been limited to 250 people, so you should register today by e-mailing, faxing, or mailing the enclosed registration sheet, or visiting our web site at .  Please also make your own travel and hotel arrangements following the instructions provided in this registration packet. 

     We hope you’ll come be part of shaping our future, and we look forward to seeing you in Newark on May 19^th.  Until then keep up to date on our web site or our conference line at 973-353-1852.

Sincerely,
Cecil Corbin Mark, CUCREJ Community Director & Program Director West Harlem Environmental Action
Michel Gelobter, CUCREJ Academic Director & Assistant Professor, Graduate Department of Public Administration, Rutgers - Newark.
on behalf of the Conference Planning Committee (partial list):

Graduate Department of Public Administration, Rutgers University at Newark
Clark Atlanta Center For Environmental Justice
Deep South Center for Environmental Justice (Xavier University)
International City/County Management Association
Indigenous Environmental Network
 National Institute for Environmental Health Sciences
Northeast Environmental Justice Network
Rural Coalition
Southwest Network for Economic and Environmental Justice
Southern Organizing Committee for Economic and Social Justice
Pam Tau Lee of the Asian Pacific Environmental Network/Labor Occupational Health Program

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