Healthy Community Planning Toolbox

Created by the Tacoma-Pierce County Health Department, this Healthy Community Planning Toolbox is designed to help planners create healthy communities by integrating health in planning documents. Each community can “right-size” or customize tools to fit their unique community context—needs, aspirations, health priorities, disparities and existing resources. It contains two types of tools: process tools and policy tools. Process tools offer a set of health lens to build healthy and sustainable places under each task/step of the planning process. The policy intervention tools provide samples policies to achieve healthy community outcomes in six priority areas—physical activity, healthy food, safety and injury, placemaking, access to opportunity and natural environment. Logic models are introduced to assist planners identify the right set of tools to yield the intended physical, social and mental health outcomes.

Access the toolbox and associated tools at: http://www.tpchd.org/environment/planning-healthy-communities/healthy-community-planning-toolbox