Community and Worksite

Ideas for Physical Activity Promotion in Communities, Schools and Worksites

Active Living Research, An Active Living Program supported by The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, provides and funds research to identify environmental factors and policies that influence physical activity. For more information and reports, see:

Designing for Active Recreation
Designing for Active Transportation
Designing to Reduce Childhood Obesity

Community Task Force on Increasing Physical Activity
This Report on Recommendations of the Task Force on Community Preventive Services from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention features input from numerous medical and healthcare sources around the country concerning increasing physical activity as a way to improve community health. Recommendations include both public and private suggestions.

ENACT: Environmental Nutrition and Activity Community Strategies, from the Strategic Alliance for Healthy Food and Activity Environments. Includes assessment and strategies to improve school, community and worksite environments.

Guidelines for School and Community Programs to Promote Lifelong Physical Activity
Among Young People
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Healthy Community Design: Success Stories from State and Local Leaders
This report highlights the work of officials who support changes in community design that provide more opportunities for people to get routine physical activity.

Healthy Places, Healthy People: Promoting Public Health & Physical Activity through Community Design
Report of an experts meeting held in November 2000 in Washington to exchange information, identify barriers and formulate possible strategies for reintegrating physical activity into community design.

Healthy Schools for Healthy Kids
Report of an investigation sponsored by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation on physical activity and healthy eating policies and programs in schools nationwide.

Healthy Workforce 2010: An Essential Health Promotion Sourcebook for Employers, Large and Small
Partnership for Prevention. Strategies and rationale for investing in worksite health promotion.

Hearts N' Parks
A national, community-based program supported by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute and the National Recreation and Park Association. It is designed to help park and recreation agencies encourage heart-healthy lifestyles in their communities.

Kids Walk-to-School
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has developed Kids Walk-to-School, a guide that encourages individuals and organizations to work together to identify and create safe walking routes to school.

Leading by Example: CEO’s on the Business Case for Worksite Health Promotion
Partnership for Prevention. The Leading by Example initiative is designed to leverage the workplace to improve health by promoting greater business involvement in health promotion and disease prevention.

Model Local School Wellness Policies on Physical Activity and Nutrition
National Alliance for Nutrition and Activity

Physical Fitness and Activity in Schools
American Academy of Pediatrics

Walkability Checklist – How walkable is your community?
Pedestrian and Bicycle Information Center, Partnership for a Walkable America, U.S. Dept. of Transportation, and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.