Resources

Active Living By Design (ALBD) creates community-led change by working with local and national partners to build a culture of active living and healthy eating.

Active Living Research contributes to the prevention of childhood obesity in low-income and high-risk racial/ethnic communities by supporting research to examine how environments and policies influence active living for children and their families.

The mission of AACORN is to improve the quality, quantity, and effective translation of research to address weight related issues in African American communities.

The Alliance for a Healthier Generation is a partnership between the American Heart Association and the William J. Clinton Foundation. We have come together to create a new generation of healthy Americans by addressing one of the nation's leading public health threats

The annotated resource book for Healthy Kids Healthy Communities includes a variety of resources for communities working on physical activity and the build environment.  The guide is organized by different topic areas, some of which include: Youth Engagement, Safety and Crime, and Land Use and Transportation.  It also includes action tools and a list of organizations working the connection between physical activity and the built environment. 

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is the nation_s premier public health agency

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Commission to Build a Healthier America is a national, independent, non-partisan group of leaders that will raise visibility of the many factors that influence health, examine innovative interventions that are making a real difference at the local level and in the private sector, and identify specific, feasible steps to improve Americans' health.

Food and eating environments likely contribute to the increasing epidemic of obesity and chronic diseases, over and above individual factors such as knowledge, skills and motivation. Four broad levels of influence are outlined in this paper: individual, social environment, physical environment, and macro-level environments.

Concerns such as costs, liability and security frequently prevent after-hours recreational use of school facilities. This fact sheet from the National Policy and Legal Analysis Network (NPLAN) provides information to help city, county, and town governments utilize joint use agreements to partner with school districts and expand the availability of places to be physically active. 

Now is the best time of year to enjoy fresh produce from the farm or a garden.  It is also the season of farmers’ markets, that weekly whirl of crowds, colors, and tastes that even some low-income Americans are getting to enjoy, thanks to the generosity of foundations and the efforts of community groups, as detailed in the article posted from The Washington Post on May 27, 2009

The Community Guide is a useful resource that can help inform decision making about public health practice, policy, research and research funding.

The Healthy Eating Active Living Convergence Partnership is a collaboration of funders who have come together with the shared goal of changing policies and environments to better achieve the vision of healthy people living in healthy places.

Healthy Eating Research supports research on environmental and policy strategies to promote healthy eating among children to prevent childhood obesity, especially among the low-income and racial and ethnic populations at highest risk for obesity.