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The Healthy, Active & Vibrant Community Toolkit is a resource to provide key community decision-makers with innovative ideas, policy suggestions and healthy community and living resources that can be implemented to improve the health of their communities.
Trailnet believes the following recommendations, if implemented in a way that is sensitive to the social and physical character and context of your community, will strengthen social bonds, increase sense of safety, help define your community’s identity, attract new local businesses and, of course, lead to healthier individuals.
The Healthy, Active & Vibrant Community Toolkit consists of eight sets of recommendations that have been tailored to key decision-making individuals and institutions in an effort to encourage a healthy, active lifestyle.
The Toolkit Includes Recommendations For:
- Schools, Childcare and After-Care
- Community Residents
- Design Practitioners
- Faith-Based Organizations and Institutions
- Healthcare Providers
- Local Governments and Community Organizations
- State and Federal Governments
- Workplaces
Mini-articles, resources and real world case studies accompany the recommendations to provide additional ideas and inspiration for your efforts. Trailnet hopes that you find this Toolkit useful, and encourages you to reach outside of your discipline to engage other key leaders in your community to work together towards the creation of a healthy, active, and vibrant community that supports resident health from cradle to cane.
"As a community leader, I plan to refer to the Toolkit to inform local decisions and to identify funding sources for 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 the novice and the professional, alike. I don’t anticipate my Toolkit will ever collect dust.”
-Dwayne James, Ferguson City Council Member
Hardcopies of the Toolkit are available for $35 (shipping included), while supplies last. If you would like more information or to order a hardcopy, please call or email Rhonda Smythe: 314-436-1324 x125 or rhonda@trailnet.org.
Funding for the Toolkit was provided in part by The Missouri Foundation for Health.