Table 2. Description of five STRENGTH components.

Also shows rating for ability to engage with residents, and conflict burden among partners (the ratio of destructive to constructive conflict). All components contribute to the online community information and training resource (CITR).

“Group name” or component project – topic focus	Activities	Participants - Roles	Outcomes	ability to engage residents	conflict burden*
Research-focused, action-oriented components
1) “Toxics-Watch” – toxic substance risks	1.1) household testing	REC – community outreach and education, mobilization, selection of tests and protocol design, testing and follow-up. Clark - selection of tests and protocol design, testing and follow-up. Residents – participation in testing of their homes.	Database of results, protocol, training of participants, information for CITR, reported in this journal article.	planning – very low execution - moderate	planning – high execution - moderate
	1.2) PM monitoring walks a. Community walks Supplementary walks	REC – community outreach and education, mobilization, logistics Clark – equipment, maps, education 6 Residents - monitoring, local knowledge, results dialogue	Database of results, protocol, training of participants, information for CITR, reported in this journal article.	a. moderate b. low	a. low b. high
2) “Health Outreach Working Group” - health concerns and needs	listening sessions with youth, and Latino, Vietnamese, African immigrant residents	FHCW – community outreach and mobilization, logistics. REC – helping run sessions and log information Clark - helping run sessions and log information	Information from youth, and Latino, Vietnamese, African immigrant residents, report, information for CITR.	moderate	moderate
3) Surveys – vulnerability information 3.1) Household survey 3.2) Asthma prevalence in schoolchildren	3.1) gather data from a random sample of residents	Clark – survey design, outreach, data gathering, processing REC/FHCW/WYC – feedback on results	Database of 80 homes, journal article manuscript, information for CITR. 3 MA theses.	moderate	high
	3.2) gather data from a random sample of children	FHCW – co-design and execution Clark - co-design and execution	Report, 1 MA thesis, information for CITR.	moderate	very low
Action-focused, research-informed components
4) “Trash clean-up” – street trash and illegal dumping	bulk waste clean-up days	6 Residents – planning of activity, execution REC - community outreach and mobilization, logistics, facilitation. Clark – outreach support	Training to plan activities, two bulk-waste clean-up days, information for CITR.	high	very low
5) “Youth ‘A’ Team” – capacity building	basketball court rehab., neighborhood profiling, relevance of climate-change issue locally	8 Teens – design and execution of activities WYC – host of activities Clark – facilitation of activities	Information for CITR, 2 MA theses on youth empowerment.	high	moderate

Key: REC – Regional Environmental Council; FHCW – Family Health Center of Worcester; WYC – Worcester Youth Center; Clark – Clark University; CITR – community information and training resource (online): see NeighborhoodSTRENGTH.org

^*ratio of destructive to constructive conflict: low is desirable; high is undesirable