Governor David A. Paterson and First Lady Michelle Paige Paterson today announced the release of the Healthy Kids, Healthy New York After-School Initiative guidelines and toolkit that will help fight childhood obesity in New York’s schools by providing after-school programs with model guidelines. Th...

The School Health Index is a self-assessment and planning tool that schools can use to improve their health and safety policies and programs. Now there are specific questions that relate to Safe Routes to School. Please visit the New York State Partnership for Walk Our Children to School site for...

John Norquist, the former Mayor of Milwaukee, told us that the way to build great places is to create walkable places; that the properties on Buffalo's waterfront near the inner harbor will dramatically increase in value if the Thruway was removed and replaced with an at-grade boulevard...

Designed for professionals who need physical activity information for their work, the centre's web site now has a new look and new ways to access information. Find out about our services, publications, and research, and access links to resources from other organizations. Use the new Advanced Sea...

Barriers to Children Walking to or From School—United States, 2004 MMWR. 2005;54:949-952 Walking for transportation is part of an active lifestyle that is associated with decreased risks for heart disease, diabetes, hypertension, and colon cancer and an increased sense of well being.1 However...

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New Strategic Plan Will Shape Our Future The entire PE4life staff has been engaged this summer in a planning exercise that will have far-reaching effects upon the organization. Earlier this year, key executives from the Greater Kansas City Community Foundation (GKCCF), one of the nation's premie...

A study published Tuesday online in the British Medical Journal finds that children who walk to and from school are more physically active throughout the day than their peers who walk to school only one way or use motorized transportation, HealthDay reports. For the study, researchers at the Univers...

Funding for Safe Routes to School will be distributed to states in proportion to the number of primary and secondary school students in the state with no state receiving less then $1 million annually. These resources will allow communities to fix hazards an slow traffic on roads, pathways or trai...

State legislators continue to focus their efforts on encouraging and/or enhancing the nutrition and physical education efforts of state public school systems in efforts to curb the rising prevalence of overweight and obese children. To date, 43 of the 50 states, as highlighted in the map below, have...