Technical Assistance

CEEJH’s mission is to train and educate impacted communities around environmental justice and health issues. Through technical assistance and authentic engagement and collaboration, communities are INpowered to address environmental injustice and environmental health disparities. 

For nearly two decades, Dr. Wilson has provided technical support to and collaborated with the West End Revitalization Association (WERA), a community-based organization located in Mebane, North Carolina. WERA focuses on addressing the lack of basic amenities and infrastructure in distressed African-American communities in Mebane and other areas in the Southeastern United States. CEEJH has collaborated with WERA on a number of projects around environmental health and environmental justice, one of which assessed the safety and adequacy of water and sewer services in three low-income African-American communities in the Mebane area. 

CEEJH provided technical assistance to Port Towns Environmental Action in Prince George’s County, MD around the health impacts of a proposed concrete batching plant, industrial traffic, and commuter traffic in Bladensburg, MD. Residents of Bladensburg are predominantly African-American and/or Latinx, and are faced with environmental hazards due to Bladensburg’s position in an industrial corridor. 

Previous technical assistance services around environmental health and environmental justice in the region include partnering with the BTB Coalition, a local community-based organization fighting for environmental justice led by Kamita Gray, in Brandywine, MD. CEEJH has performed a health impact assessment of a proposed incinerator in the region; assisted with public health workshops related to the power plants and other environmental hazards; provided testimony related to the a special exception for the fly ash landfill; and provided guidance on the submission of an administrative complaint to the US EPA Office of Civil Rights on the differential permitting of the power plants as a violation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act against state agencies.