The tool kit is designed for:

• Public health practitioners
• Policy makers
• Community partners

to make it easier for residents to be physically active and choose healthy foods.

The Healthy Communities Tool Kit offers key lessons and resources used in communities in Washington State as they mobilized their communities to make policy and environmental changes.

Bringing community members together to begin this work is described in:

 Healthy Communities Tool Kit 1: Developing an Action Plan.

Implementing the action plans and the tools used in evaluating are described in:

 Healthy Communities Tool Kit 2: Implementing and Evaluating Success.  Each of the six chapters includes lessons learned from the communities, sample tools, and resources:

1. Implementing Your Action Plan

2.  Engaging Your Community & New Partners

3.  Collaborative Leadership

4.  Best Practices: Policy & Environmental Change

5.  Sustaining the Work

6.  Evaluating Success (external site)
   
   For more information about the Healthy Communities Tool Kit email Ruth Abad.

This publication was supported by CDC Cooperative Agreement Number U58/DP001491. Its contents are solely the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official views of the CDC.