On Thursday, November 18^th from 3pm-4pm CT the Houston Health Department is hosting a free webinar presented by the Safe Routes Partnership:

On Thursday, October 28^th from 3pm-4pm CT the Houston Health Department is hosting a free webinar presented by the Safe Routes Partnership:

Starting and Growing a Strong Safe Routes to School Program

Thursday, October 28^th, 3pm-4pm CT

This report examines how the increased use of navigation systems is directing drivers into sensitive street zones, shifting traffic patterns and behaviors, creating a culture of health that's threatening active transportation, children’s health & safety, and the vitality of streets surrounding our parks, schools, and other community hubs.

Infrastructure for walking and biking can be seriously expensive. This fact sheet tells the story of two cities’ approach to paying for parks and connections to green space: general obligation bonds. 

Use this guide and template to create your own evaluation table to outline your project goals, objectives and metrics.

This resource focuses specifically on funding infrastructure (physical improvements), but some of these funding resources can also pay for non-construction phases that make infrastructure possible like conducting traffic studies and installing drainage to manage storm water.

This factsheet offers evaluation techniques for all phases of safe routes efforts as well as how and when they can be most useful so that you can incorporate evaluation from the beginning, rather than solely at the end.

This fact sheet invites non-profit organizations, community-based organizations (CBOs), and advocates to think through multiple perspectives on how unhoused people resting, living, and gathering in parks affects overall park access and use compassionately and practically.

This factsheet offers an overview of how active transportation and parks and recreation are typically funded. 

This factsheet offers strategies to move existing funding toward improving safe and equitable park access and the partnerships that can help facilitate both funding and implementation.

On Wednesday, November 17^th 3-4pm Eastern, the Safe Routes Partnership is hosting a free webinar:

Safe Routes Back to School 2021 Zoom Session

November 17, 2021, 3-4pm Eastern

Parks advocates and Safe Routes to School practitioners alike can use this fact sheet for ideas on tying Safe Routes to Parks activities into their Walk to School Day events and keeping up the momentum beyond October.

On Thursday, October 14th at 3:00 PM Eastern/12:00 PM Pacific Safe Routes Partnership is hosting a free one-hour webinar:

Key takeaways:

• Riding a bicycle is a concrete way for children to participate in climate action. Participation in an everyday activity that makes a difference is ‘constructive hope’.

• Children who live in low-traffic neighborhoods are more likely to engage in activities like walking and biking, leading to more social interaction, exposure to nature, and outdoor play; all of which create feelings of connection to the environment. Active transportation is a way for children to feel invested in protecting this connection.
• Children who live in high-traffic neighborhoods spend more time indoors, have fewer opportunities to make friends, and experience independent social connections. They are less likely to walk or bike due to traffic concerns. This contributes to negative feelings about their neighborhoods.
• A common objection to children biking is based on unsafe roads. Streets are built for cars. Traffic is intimidating and poses risk, leading to perceptions of unsafety. Yet injury rates do not reflect this perception as a reality.
• The many gains of children bicycling outweigh the risk of injury. Active transportation also aids in the development of self-esteem, independence, self-efficacy, and spatial navigation skills.