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Education, Outreach & PR <br />Providing orientations and educational sessions with new businesses and board members along with <br />informational presentations to community members is a critical element of the program. By ensuring full <br />understanding of the scope and purpose of the program, businesses are more likely to comply with the <br />mandate of the program. <br />1.Maintain content on the Toxics Board and Toxics Program’s webpages.4 <br />2.Provide an orientation of the Toxics Program for new Toxics Board members, <br />manufacturing business representatives, environmental justice and advocacy <br />representatives and interested members of the public.4 <br />3.Build and maintain good working relationships between the Toxics Program Manager and <br />Toxics Board members, the manufacturing business community, the environmental justice <br />and advocacy community and other program stakeholders. 4 <br />4.Conduct public education and outreach efforts to increase transparency, understanding and <br />awareness of the program; including issue news releases to keep the media and community <br />informed; collaborate with the University of Oregon and Oregon State University, and to <br />provide graduate students with internship opportunities; hold ongoing informational work <br />sessions to give businesses and the community opportunities to learn and ask questions <br />about the program, and provide feedback; Monitor the Toxics Board’s email box, and <br />facilitate responses accordingly. 4 <br />5.Add a rating system (such as HMIS) to the Toxics Program website in FY21 to improve public <br />and industry hazard understanding. <br />Estimated Education, Outreach, & PR Total = 17% <br />4 <br /> Necessary to support charter amendment <br />3 | Page <br /> <br />