Healthy Communities: Reports, Evaluations, and Toolkits
Report, Website
Ten Principles for Building Healthy Places

This report sets out 10 principles that can be used to approach building healthy communities. The principles in the report will help people live longer, more productive lives, re­duce unhealthy lifestyles, help improve a community’s competitive advantages, and allow developers, investors, local governments, and citizens to prosper.

Report
Physical Activity Supports Academic Achievement

This easy-to-read special report, released in 2013, is a roadmap for parents, educators, school administrators, and school volunteers to create healthier school environments so the children in their lives are better positioned to learn.

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, Evaluation
Active Schools Neighborhood Checklist

The aim of the Active School Neighborhood Checklist (ASNC) is to provide decision makers with a quantitative tool for evaluating the potential long-term health impacts of candidate school sites on the children who will attend them. 

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.

Report, Case Study
Measuring Sprawl 2014

Released in 2014 by Smart Growth America, Measuring Sprawl 2014 examines how some places in the United States are sprawling out and some places are building in compact, connected ways. 

Report, Case Study
The Built Environment and Health

In this monograph, the Prevention Institute has profiled eleven projects in predominantlylow-income communities where local residents mobilized public and private resources to makechanges in their physical environments to improve the health and quality of life for their citizens.

Report
Windfall for All

Transform created this report to highlight data that examines the full economic impact of transportation policies.