VERB Make it Up - a program to keep kids interested and motivated to be physically active

Exercise is Medicine information

Active living by design - increasing physical activity and healthy eating through community design

Resources from South Dakota's community needs assessment training

South Dakota Game, Fish and Parks Fitness Passport Challenge - get outdoors in South Dakota parks

Healthy People 2020

Healthy Kids, Healthy Communities

Recommended community strategies and measurements to prevent obesity

You're It. Get Fit! President's Challenge

Community recreational trails in SD - the Health Department has funded trailhead markers and signs across the state to promote local trails and encourage increased physical activity

Community Health Assessment aNd Group Evaulation (CHANGE) Tool and Action Guide - data collection tool for community leaders

Communities

America WALKS: Making America a Great Place to Walk

America Walks is the national voice for a walkable America by promoting walkable communities.  America Walks also provides assistance with advocacy, coalition building, education and outreach, and technical resources. 

South Dakota Fruit and Vegetable Survey

The Department of Health worked with South Dakota State University to survey fruit and vegetable producers, as well as grocers, across the state to learn more about why our state has some of the lowest consumption of fruits and vegetables.  Click on the links below to read the summaries or go to Online Resources to read the full reports.

• Summary of Grocer Survey
• Summary of Producer Survey

Data for Communities The County Health Rankings website provides information, data and a snapshot of a county's health as a starting point for investigating ways to improve health. The 2011 America’s Health Rankings is intended to stimulate action by individuals, elected officials, health professionals, employers, educators and communities to improve the health of the U.S.

How Healthy is Your Concession Stand?

CLICK HERE and invest in healthier options for concessions at youth sporting events.

The new Healthy SD Concessions Model Policy is your guide to serving healthier items - outlining foods and beverages that are green-light good and those red-light items that should be avoided. You'll find tips and strategies to help you overcome common barriers, put a plan in place, and you can request FREE marketing materials to help promote your healthier selections!

• Pierre's Capital Area Soccer Association has success with model policy
• Spearfish Recreation and Aquatics Centers has success with healthy concessions

Join America's More Matters pledge to fight obesity

Walkable Communities, Inc.- information and resources

Strides to a Healthier Worksite

ACHIEVE Communities - (Action Communities for Health, Innovation, and Environmental Change) develop and implement population-based strategies to help prevent or manage risk factors for heart disease, stroke, diabetes, cancer, obesity and arthritis

Let's Move - a comprehensive initiative, launched by the First lady and dedicated to solving the problem of obesity within a generation, so that children born today will up healthier and able to pursue their dreams. Communities play a big part in this initiative. Learn more:

• Learn the facts: raising healthier kids

• Eat healthy: food and nutrition 

• Get active: physical activity 

• Take action: simple steps to success 

• Join us! Let’s move together 

Bringing Health Information to the Community (National Network of Libraries of Medicine)

5P Strategies and Tactics - a comprehensive approach to increasing physical activity in a community. Learn more.