These new resources tell the stories of state- and local-level campaign wins for active transportation funding, Safe Routes to School, Complete Streets, shared use, and environmental justice policies. 

Innovative school districts, such as the one in this case study, have opened their facilities to the community to address both students’ and the communities’ need for recreational activity spaces through shared use agreements. 

This two page document outlines strategies to increase physical activity through the shared use of recreational facilities.

Trust in an examination of community schools from a rural perspective. 

This website provides videos of success stories for joint use agreements in rural California.

This resource provides detailed information about joint use, lessons learned from case studies, and recommendations for establishing joint use.

To assist advocates and local government attorneys in assessing liability risks, the National Policy & Legal Analysis Network to Prevent Childhood Obesity (NPLAN) commissioned a 50-state survey of the laws governing liability for recreational use of school facilities during non-school hours. 

This report summarizes discussion from the convening series "Unlocking the Playground: Achieving Equity in Physical activity Spaces" in four locations in CA in 2009.

This toolkit shares what lessons learned from successful joint use agreements, offering guidelines and templates for other communities seeking to increase their own access to school recreational facilities.

This toolkit shares what lessons learnedfrom successful joint use agreements, offeringguidelines and templates for othercommunities looking to expand their accessto school recreational facilities.