Roadshow Grantee: Citizens for a Healthy and Safe Environment (CHASE)

This community group is participating in the HERCULES Roadshow and Community Grant Program.

Phase 1: Exposome Roadshow Workshop

CHASE is an organization based in Stonecrest, GA, a newer municipality east of Atlanta in Dekalb County.  

Residents of Stonecrest, brought together by CHASE, have numerous concerns about development in their newer city. While they feel that their community is beautiful, green, and conveniently located, they also feel that their is a lack of information, communication, and support from their elected officials. They applied to the Roadshow Program in order to build the capacity of community residents to creatively build and sustain their own community.

This group met twice with Emory HERCULES in October and November 2025 to share their environmental health concerns, learn about the exposome, and identify an environmental health priority. As a result, residents selected information impacting their community as their environmental health priority, especially with regards to transparent communication about community resources and development that affect the community’s health and environment.