Virginia Healthy Communities Project

The Virginia Department of Health works to promote and encourage communities across the Commonwealth to make healthy changes in the places and organizations that touch people’s lives every day—schools, work sites, health care sites, and other community settings.  By doing so, Virginia can begin to turn the tide on the national epidemic of chronic diseases – diabetes, heart disease, cancer.

Resources

1. Action Communities for Health, Innovation, and EnVironmental ChangE (ACHIEVE): www.achievecommunities.org
2. Safe Routes to School: www.saferoutesinfo.org/
3. The Virginia Foundation for Healthy Youth (VFHY): www.healthyyouthva.org
4. Prevention Institute: www.preventioninstitute.org/
5. Complete Streets (Planning Advisory Service Report 559):www.planning.org/apastore/Search/Default.aspx?p=4060
6. U.S. Food Environment Atlas: www.ers.usda.gov/FoodAtlas/
7. New Report: Bicycling and Walking in the U.S.: 2010 Benchmarking Report:www.peoplepoweredmovement.org/site/index.php/site/memberservices/C529
8. Smoke Free Outdoors
   • www.smokefreecouncils.com.au/Smoke
   • www.njgasp.org/Outdoor%20bans%20white%20paper.pdf
   • www.smoke-free.ca/factsheets/pdf/Smokefreepatios-final.pdf
9. The County Health Rankings: www.countyhealthrankings.org
10. State Data on Child Health: www.childhealthdata.org/content/Default.aspx
11. Community Common: www.communitycommons.org

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