Active Living by Design featured in a Special Supplement of the American Journal of Preventive Medicine

The American Journal of Preventive Medicine (AJPM) has just published a supplement to their December 2009 issue that is devoted to the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Active Living by Design (ALbD) grant program and community partnerships.

This special issue focuses on the ALbD national program and community action model, as well as the lessons learned from 15 ALbD grantee communities. The issue also features commentary from experts in the field.

The practice-based special issue describes community partnerships representing a range of lead agencies (e.g., planning departments, community development agencies) with emphasis on increasing physical activity in special populations (e.g., African Americans, Latinos, Native Americans, older adults, children, employees). There are examples of the process of planning and implementing comprehensive approaches to increase community levels of physical activity, including how to engage partners, secure resources, increase community participation, design policy and environment interventions, increase political or community support, address challenges or minimize barriers, and keep the momentum going over time.

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) established the ALbD national grant program in 2001. After a review of more than 900 hundred proposals, ALbD formed partnerships with 25 community organizations. Each ALbD partnership received five years of funding.

Active Living by Design featured in a Special Supplement of the American Journal of Preventive Medicine

  1. 1. The Active Living by Design National Program
  2. 2. Bike, Walk, and Wheel
  3. 3. Project U-Turn
  4. 4. Promoting and Developing a Trail Network Across Suburban, Rural, and Urban Communities
  5. 5. Building the Base
  6. 6. Leveraging Neighborhood-Scale Change for Policy and Program Reform in Buffalo, New York
  7. 7. Active Living Logan Square
  8. 8. ACTIVE Louisville
  9. 9. Slavic Village
  10. 10. Get Active Orlando
  11. 11. Active Seattle
  12. 12. Achieving Built-Environment and Active Living Goals Through Music City Moves
  13. 13. Partnership Moves Community Toward Complete Streets
  14. 14. Activate Omaha
  15. 15. From Partnership to Policy
  16. 16. Establishing Best Practices for Changing the Built Environment to Promote Physical Activity
  17. 17. Implications of Active Living by Design for Broad Adoption, Successful Implementation, and Long-Term Sustainability
  18. 18. Active Living by Design as a Political Project
  19. 19. Active Living by Design

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