Including measures of distance and time can improve risk comparisons of travel modes and may show that bicycling is not as hazardous as commonly thought.

KEY TAKEAWAY:

• Schools can promote daily physical activity, which has benefits for health and academic success.

A school-community kitchen presents a new kind of social contract: a public school kitchen, used by both the school and the community as a resource for educational, vocational, and production purposes. 

Learn about engaging policymakers in Safe Routes to School.

A toolkit for planning site visits and member meetings to build congressional champions for Safe Routes to School.

Participants learn the ins and outs of the 2012 transportation law, MAP-21.

This toolkit shares what we have learned from successful agreements, offering guidelines and templates for other communities looking to expand their access to school recreational facilities.

This webinar provides a cost-benefit analysis on Safe Routes to School.

This short video provides a brief overview of the importance of joint-use agreements to increase access to physical activity opportunities in Los Angeles County. 

This presentation provides an overview of Arkansas Dept. of Education joint use program. Moving from the joint use program, funding, priorities and legislation to support joint use agreements.

Sometimes pictures are more effective than words. This inforgraphic is designed to address the role of communities in increasing access to physical activity opportunities.

This webinar is a follow-up to the webinar Federal Funding for Transportation 101. This provides a 201-level overview on transportation finance to support Safe Routes to School programs.

This study investigates the effect of a school-based intervention called Travelling Green (TG) on children's walking to and from school and total daily physical activity.

This memorandum of understanding is between Compton Unified School District and the L.A. County Department of Public Works. 

Improving people’s access to recreation areas such schools and parks through joint use agreements can also increase opportunities for physical activity.

The Kentucky Cancer Consortium contracted with Kentucky Youth Advocates to obtain baseline data about shared use of school facilities with community agencies during non-school hours in Kentucky.

This webinar provides a 101-level introduction to federal funding.

This webinar by PreventObesity.net introduces the concepts of shared use and offers a pratical gude to implementing shared use agreements.

KEY TAKEAWAYS:

Only ¼ of US youth ages 12-15 met national physical activity guidelines in 2012, and levels of physical activity differ by gender and weight status.

Regular physical activity promotes important health benefits and reduces risk for obesity.