CDC’s Division of Community Health (DCH) is pleased to announce the following webinar in our series:

 

Implementing Comprehensive Healthy Community Design Plans

Wednesday, June 17, 2015

2:00-3:30 pm Eastern

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Description

The purpose of this webinar is to advise awardees on how to establish and implement equitable, comprehensive healthy community design plans that incorporate best practices in land use and development, multi-modal transportation networks, and site designs, with a goal of encouraging physically active travel and access to healthy food choices. The webinar will address the value of formally planning for healthy designs as well as explore the range of planning options - from city-wide comprehensive plans to more specific efforts such as a trails and open space, Safe Routes to School, or Complete Streets implementation plans. Presenters will share how their coalitions, community leaders, municipal and regional agencies, and other stakeholders work together to implement their plans.

Learning Objectives

By the end of this webinar, attendees are expected to be able to:

• Identify at least one core principle of healthy community design.
• Determine the most useful approach in advancing healthy design in their own community.
• Provide key decision makers with at least one reason for the importance of implementing healthier community design in plans, ordinances, and routine practice.

 

Presenters

• Mark Fenton, Adjunct Associate Professor, Tufts University
• Leslie Meehan, Director of Healthy Communities, Nashville, Tennessee
• Laura Garrett, Community Initiatives Lead, Columbus Regional Health/REACH Healthy Communities, Columbus, Indiana

 

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