Roadmap to Improving Food and Physical Activity Environments

Tips and Tools from the Healthy Eating, Active Communities Program

This guide is designed to help coalitions working to build healthier communities, where people have access to healthy foods, and where being physically active can become a way of life for everyone. It is for coalition leaders and members that are new to this work, as well as those who are applying their experience to a new arena or are working with new partners. Though there are many ways to make change happen in communities, there are a number of steps that many successful projects have in common. The Roadmap explains these steps, and applies them to working to improve food and physical activity environments in five sectors. It also helps coalitions find some of the many tools and materials that are becoming available to support this work, without becoming overwhelmed by the very process of choosing tools.