Incorporating shared use into school wellness policies helps students, parents, teachers, and other school district staff understand the important role shared use can play in increasing opportunities for physical activity and creating a healthier school environment.
Across the country, many Native American communities lack safe and affordable spaces for their children to exercise and play.
This fact sheet is a companion to At the Intersection of Active Transportation and Equity: Joining Forces to Make Communities Healthier and Fairer.
This fact sheet is a companion to Taking Back the Streets and Sidewalks: How Safe Routes to School and Community Safety Initiatives Can Overcome Violence and Crime.
This model policy focuses on one particular shared use mechanism, the “Open Use Policy.”
Guidance for parents and caregivers to teach their children (ages 4 and above) safe walking behavior.
This fact sheet is a companion to At the Intersection of Active Transportation and Equity: Joining Forces to Make Communities Healthier and Fairer.
This webinar from June 25, 2015 discusses strategies to make routes to school safe from violence and crime.
Key takeaway: Safe Routes to School initiatives can contribute to creating multi-faceted “activity-friendly” environments that provide a range of societal co-benefits; filling gaps in the evidence of co-benefits will further support the importance of active transportation to school.
Key Takeaway: Community-based participatory research activities that engage youth can help create a place-based understanding of how youths perceive their neighborhood environments and inform interventions for improvements.
The Safe Routes Ohio Network put together a series of Lunch and Learns to increase awareness around shared use in Ohio.
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Walking groups among adults can result in improved health outcomes, including blood pressure, heart rate, body fat, BMI, cholesterol, oxygen uptake, and 6-minute walk time.
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ULI’s Building Healthy Places Toolkit: Strategies for Enhancing Health in the Built Environment outlines evidence-supported opportunities for enhancing health outcomes in real estate developments.
This guide is written for those interested in planning a bicycle safety skills event for children either at school or at other community venues. It gives you a step-by-step approach to planning and initiating a bicycle safety skills event, including instructions and resources for setting up a course.
These downloadable handouts are designed for use by community groups, families, or youth to assess neighborhood safety for bicycling. They serve as an interactive engaging tool to heighten awareness and to assist with goals for increasing safety for bicycling.
This factsheet provides the most recent final bicycle fatality and injury data in relation to motor-vehicle related crashes.