Conduct an Active Living campaign such as a Safe Routes to School (SRTS) program.
Best Practice of this action
Keywords
schools
Resources
- Safe Routes to Schools:
- The MN Dept. of Transportation supports the Safe Routes to Schools program - an effort to improve walking and bicycling conditions for youth and to encourage more active lifestyles.
- Find additional resources. There is typically annual funding available for projects and education.
- Active Transportation:
- MnDOT’s Active Transportation Program offers infrastructure and planning assistance grants to local communities through an annual solicitation process. These resources can be used to create a citywide Active Transportation Plan.
- Find resources for and report Complete & Living Streets policies under BPA 11.1.
- Active Living:
- The Albert Lea Blue Zones project is about making the healthy choice the easy choice.
- The Hennepin Active Living Program has numerous planning and policy documents and other resources to help a city start an active living program in their own community.
- Rural Active Living Assessment Tools (Robert Wood Johnson Foundation: 2009).
- Prevention Minnesota, an initiative to make Minnesota a healthier place to live and work during the next decade, promotes SHIP - State Health Improvement Plan - interventions and funding through county health boards, and the MN Dept. of Health physical activity program.
- Communities for a Lifetime resources from the MN Board on Aging are available to cities to help transform the physical infrastructure of communities, including housing, mobility options and accessible public space. Report being an Age Friendly Community under BPA 12.1.
- See MN Dept. of Health active living resources.
Order Number
2
Action Type
Finite