Active Living Leadership

Basic facts on creating environments that encourage physical activity, including policy development resources. Also includes a calculator for communities and businesses to calculate what costs are associated with physical inactivity in their community or business.

Grant opportunity

The National Park and Recreation Association (NPRA) will fund 10 community public park and recreation agencies at $30,000 each to focus and advance chronic disease prevention locally.  Applications are due Jan. 9. Learn more. 

Community Wellness Planning

Where you live can affect how active you are and what you eat. Are there safe places to walk and play? Are high quality foods available at a reasonable cost? "Strides to a Healthier Community" was developed to help South Dakota communities create healthy environments and policies.

• Examples of Community Policy and Environmental Changes
• Strategies to Promote Nutrition and Physical Activity Change
• Inventories
  • Community Policy and Environmental Inventory
  • Community Workgroup Inventory
• Vending

To download the entire Strides to a Healthier Community document, click here. Strides to a Healthier Worksite is also available, click here.

Community Wellness Tool Kit: The Strides to a Healthier Community Wellness Challenge Took Kit promotes the benefits of a healthy lifestyle in South Dakota. The tool kit includes an overview of a wellness challenge a step by step guide to setting up the wellness challenge whether it is a steps, minutes, or 5 A Day challenge. Included in the tool kit are a variety of supplemental materials including registration forms, calendars, advertisements and sample challenge resources.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Nutrition and Physical Activity, and Active Community Environments:

Active Community Environments (ACEs)

A CDC-sponsored initiative to promote walking, bicycling, and the development of accessible recreation facilities.

Walkable Communities

Provides information to help communities of all sizes become more walkable and pedestrian friendly. Provides information on workshops, training, and presentations.