Resources & Links

Healthy Communities

• Healthy Communities Conference – view the slides presented by numerous speakers at the May 2010 conference.

• Healthy Communities Strategy, Ontario Ministry of Health Promotion - Learn more about what the provincial government is doing to create healthier communities in Ontario.

• Ontario Healthy Communities Coalition – has a variety of toolkits and manuals to help community groups work toward building healthier communities.

• Spark Together for Healthy Kids, Heart and Stroke Foundation

Built Environment

• Promoting Public Health through Smart Growth (BC)

• Victoria Transportation Policy Institute 

• Planning by Design, A Healthy Communities Handbook – produced by the Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing with the Ontario Professional Planners Institute

• Ontario Professional Planners Institute

o   Planning for Age-Friendly Communities, A Call to Action

o   Plan for Needs of Children and Youth

o   Healthy Communities, Sustainable Communities – Report & Call to Action

• Shaping Healthy Active Communities Toolkit, Heart and Stroke Foundation

• Has the suburban dream gone sour?  2005 Report Card, Heart and Stroke Foundation

• Playground Safety Fact Sheets (PDF)

Natural Environment

• Grey Sauble Conservation Authority

• Saugeen Valley Conservation Authority

Social Environment

• Bridges Out of Poverty

• A Profile of Child, Youth, Family Health in Grey and Bruce Counties Grey Bruce Children’s Alliance

• Comparing Neighbourhoods for Sustainable Features

• Age-Friendly Rural Communities 

• 40 Developmental Assets (Youth)

• Target Youth – a website create by youth for youth

• PLAY in Bruce Grey

• Tamarack – Vibrant Communities