 
The Walk! Bike! Fun! Pedestrian and Bicycle Safety Curriculum
was developed by the Bicycle Alliance of Minnesota through a contract with the
Minnesota Department of Transportation in collaboration with Blue Cross and
Blue Shield of Minnesota. With the Walk! Bike! Fun! curriculum, we will help
schools teach children life long skills to safely walk and bike in their
community.
Many children are injured each year through unsafe walking and
bicycling activities. Teaching children while they are in school to be safe on
sidewalks and roads will help reduce those injuries. The curriculum is
developed for younger elementary grades (K-3) to teach safe walking skills and
then advancing to safe bicycling skills in the upper elementary or middle
school grades (4-8).
BikeMN is conducting trainings across Minnesota for teachers
and other youth educators. You may register for the training that best
fits your schedule or location through the following:
Woodbury | Oct 1
Moorhead | Oct 15
Rochester | Oct 24
Click here for more information about the curriculum and to hose a curriculum training.
Park and recreation departments have many roles to
play in promoting public health, active living, and community development.
Increasingly, planners, park departments, and public health professionals are
working together to improve park and recreation facilities through smart
planning and creative funding streams. In this webinar, representatives from
urban park systems in Los Angeles and Miami will discuss innovations they are
making in planning parks for health, and how their approach can lead to
successes in your community. The session will offer advanced training for
professionals from planning, health, and parks and recreation. Register now!
New York City’s award-winning Active Design
Guidelines, product of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention-sponsored
program Fit Nation, offer examples and illustrations of design strategies that
promote active living. Utilizing these guidelines for architecture, urban
design, and planning can lead to increased use of active transportation,
improved social cohesion, and a healthier population. The authors of the Active
Design Guidelines will discuss its creation, share examples of implementation,
and offer suggestions for how you can begin to implement actions to promote
health in your building, block, or neighborhood. Register Now!
The Safe Routes to School National Partnership can assist your efforts
to make your community a place where kids can easily be active and
healthy. They are offering free technical assistance to successful
applicants working in underserved communities on campaigns to obtain
shared use agreements, Complete Streets policies, or other policies in
support of walking, bicycling and Safe Routes to School. Click here for more information.
Want
to encourage more walking in your community? Walk [you city] makes
wayfinding signs easy. Check out their website http://walkyourcity.org/ to add signs to
your next event or put them up for fun around your city.
Hosted in
collaboration with Active Living by Design, this webinar will highlight the
latest innovative tools that can be used to advance shared use practices.
Presenters will give an overview and introduction to the Joint Use
Calculator, ChangeLab's Open Use Policy and the National Partnership's Shared Use
Clearinghouse. Click here to register.
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