These webinars, part of the Plan4Health Series, are intended to help you increase your knowledge about issues at the intersection of health and planning, as well as inspire you to make sustainable and equitable changes within your community!
- AARP’s Livability Index: Learn about AARP’s Public Policy Institute’s Livability Index, which measures quality of life across a number of dimensions, including transportation, community participation, and environmental conditions
- Active Living Index: An interactive tool, the Active Living Index is designed to help determine opportunities for activity and healthy living within a community
- Creating Story Maps: Story maps, a feature of ArcGIS, allow for the creator to combine various forms of multimedia content, in order to create an in-depth look at communities
- Health Impact Assessment with Urban Land Institute: Learn about HIAs, as well as the latest research concerning how to apply this tool to communities and the built environment
- Introduction to Wayfinding: Wayfinding is not just the ability to get somewhere, but the entirety of people’s location orientation, and how they navigate between spaces and the built environment
- Landscape Performance for Healthy Communities: What is the value in general of landscapes for communities, and specifically for sustainable landscaping? Increase your knowledge with this interactive tool
- Toolkit for Rural Communities: Rural communities face a number of challenges not applicable to more metropolitan areas. Learn how to increase quality of life for all rural residents through health initiatives, improvement of the built environment, and promotion of sustainability