Evaluation

The National Center for Safe Routes to School has developed evaluation resources that include the Student In-Class Travel Tally and the Parent Survey. The Parent Survey has a nice feature, which gives local Safe Routes to School programs the ability to collect Parent Survey responses online in both English and Spanish. This online Parent Survey option is a free service that streamlines the data collection and submission processes, and saves local programs administrative time and money. It is offered in addition to the National Center’s free service of processing hard copies of the English and Spanish Parent Surveys. Several state SRTS programs encourage or require applicants to provide the results of these surveys as part of the application process. We encourage you to use these evaluation resources. For more information on collecting local Safe Routes to School data, visit www.saferoutesinfo.org/data.

The Health Impact Project, a collaboration of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and The Pew Charitable Trusts, recently launched a new Web feature to document the rapidly expanding health impact assessment (HIA) work around the country. HIA is a flexible, data-driven tool that identifies the health benefits and consequences of new policies and develops practical strategies to minimize any adverse effects, ensuring the best possible health outcomes. Health Impact Project invites users to submit info on HIAs across the U.S.