About
- This is a public health framework.
- The "3 keys" of this framework are meant to guide public health actions.
- These public health actions should reduce stress and build resilience in communities faced with environmental contamination.
How to use
The 3 Keys Framework suggests an iterative process to reduce community stress and psychosocial issues and build resilience. Communities have different practical, informational, social, and emotional needs and assets. It is a part of public health responses to environmental contamination. It is not a specific intervention.
- The three main objectives build in intensity and complexity. Recognize is the most basic way to help a community deal with psychosocial issues in the face of contamination. Partner is a more demanding, long-term process.
- Each of these objectives can be addressed independently, but they function best when employed together.
- The 3 Keys should be adapted to meet the needs and goals of a community in its unique situation.
Full Report: 3 Keys for Addressing Community Stress in Environmental Contamination
Main objectives
The 3 main objectives are Recognize, Prepare, and Partner.
Primary objective: Understand that all public health efforts become part of the community's "secondary impact" experience.
Secondary objectives
- Legitimize the stress experience.
- Communicate risk effectively.
Primary objective: Understand the unique ways in which chronic environmental contamination has impacted and continues to impact this community.
Secondary objectives
- Learn about the community and its needs before addressing stress.
- Build lasting relationships and interventions.
- Be aware of chronic stress, conflict, and retraumatization.
Primary objective: Engage with the community to assess needs and develop, implement, and maintain long-term interventions and resilience mechanisms.
Secondary objectives
- Work with community leaders and build community groups.
- Provide informal outreach and support settings.