Two years in the making, we are excited to announce the official release of Trailnet’s Healthy, Active, & Vibrant Community Toolkit.

This comprehensive and visually compelling document presents an exciting vision for the future of our communities—a future built around quality of life, health, vibrant local economies, and the environment.

At its core, the Toolkit is focused on creating long-term solutions to address the obesity epidemic. However, we built on this core focus to provide you with a series of recommendations that not only combat obesity but at the same time create communities that foster the highest quality of life and independence for residents young, old, and in between.

The toolkit is full of useful case studies, policy recommendations, and funding resources to help you as you promote healthy and active living in your community.

Targeted information is provided for the following groups:

• Schools, Childcare, and After-Care
• Community Residents
• Design Practitioners
• Faith-Based Organizations and Institutions
• Healthcare Providers
• Local Governments & Community Organizations
• State and Federal Governments
• Workplaces

We hope the toolkit will prove to be a useful resource to you and your community.

"As a community leader, I plan to refer to the Toolkit to inform local decisions and to identify funding sources for our projects. As a visual learner, the use of images and graphics helps to capture and direct my attention to the great information contained in this document. The document is easy to navigate and the information is presented for thenovice and the professional, alike. I don’t anticipate my Toolkit will ever collect dust.”

-Dwayne James, Ferguson City Council Member

Download the Toolkit for Free
Executive Summary (pdf, 467 kb)
Full Document (pdf, 5.9 Mb)

Hardcopies of the Toolkit are available for $25 (shipping included), while supplies last. If you would like more information or to order a hardcopy, please call or email Phil Valko: 314-436-1324 x119 or phil@trailnet.org.

Funding for the Toolkit was provided in part by The Missouri Foundation for Health. The Missouri Foundation for Health is a philanthropic organization whose vision is to improve the health of the people in the communities it serves.