Healthy Communities Reports

Steps to a Walkable Community compilesmultidisciplinary tactics that readers can assemble into customstrategies designed for their community’s circumstances. 

This document provides guidance for implementing and evaluating Complete Streets.

This resource provides school board members with information on local wellness and physical activity resources, sample policies, case studies and fact sheets.

Steps to a Walkable Community compilesmultidisciplinary tactics that readers can assemble into customstrategies designed for their community’s circumstances. 

This report describes the expert panel process that was used to identify 24 recommended strategies for obesity prevention and a suggested measurement for each strategy that communities can use to assess performance and track progress over time. 

This guide is designed to help schools respond the the special nutrition concerns of low-income students in their wellness policies, including through increasing physical activity and recreational opportunities.

Many of the ideas presented are simple, but have immense potential to improve the overall success, health and well-being of our City’s students. This Active Design Toolkit for Schools provides ideas and resources to incorporate active design into your school. 

This guide provides information about LEED-ND (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design for Neighborhood Development) standards and how they can support neighborhood sustainability. 

Released in 2014 by Smart Growth America, Measuring Sprawl 2014 examines how some places in the United States are sprawling out and some places are building in compact, connected ways. 

In this monograph, the Prevention Institute has profiled eleven projects in predominantlylow-income communities where local residents mobilized public and private resources to makechanges in their physical environments to improve the health and quality of life for their citizens.