Healthy Communities Reports

Healthy Communities: Reports, Evaluations, and Toolkits
Toolkit, Video, Laws and Policies
Bicycle and Pedestrian Safety Law Enforcement Training

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has developed videos and training resources on bicyle and pedestrian safety for law enforcement. 

Report
State Network Policy Successes

In 2010 and 2011, the 20 state networks engaged more than 600 partner organizations and agencies in policy priorities based upon the following policy categories:

Report, Case Study
The Second Wave:

This report describes the strategies, partners, successes and lessons learned from the Safe Routes to School state network project in 20 states during 2010.

Toolkit
Schools, Money, Education, Health and Equity

GIS mapping examples of poor siting decisions are used to help the reader understand the importance of making better school site decisions using a collaborative, data informed, objective process. 

Toolkit
Active School Neighborhood Checklist (ASNC) Assessment Tool Guidebook

Arizona Department of Health Services partnered with the Arizona Department of Transportation SafeRoutes to School Program to develop a tool that generates a score which represents the walkability,bikeability, and safety of the school (existing or proposed) location.

Report
Guide to the Bay Area's Transportation Improvement Program

This guide explains how the public and interested stakeholders can get involved in the San Francisco Bay Area’s transportation project development process. Specifically, we focus on the Transportation Improvement Program or TIP, which is compiled and approved by the Metropolitan Transportation Commission.

Report, Case Study
Places, Spaces & People – Part II

The Boyle Heights/East Los Angeles (BHELA) Community Health Assessment explores the nexusbetween the built environment, public policy, and urban planning in an effort to determine theirimpact on the health and wellbeing of residents in Boyle Heights and East Los Angeles

Report
Putting Business to Work for Health:

This guide looks at how local government incentives can help improve community health. It explains a variety of different types of incentives that promote access to healthy food and physical activity space, and outlines the steps involved in developing and carrying out these policies and programs.

Toolkit, Report
Roadmap to Improving Food and Physical Activity Environments

This document provides a list of resources, steps and processes for creating healthy food and physical activity environments.

Toolkit, Report, Case Study
Building Healthy Communities

According to CSBA’s research with school governance teams in California, schoolboard members recognize the link between student health and academicachievement, but when faced with a multitude of competing priorities and limitedresources, are hard pressed to make wellness a high priority in the district/COE.