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Overview
The Healthy Environments Committee believes that transportation and recreational spaces are interconnected and represent the quality of the built environment! They work to bring physical activity to the Dearborn community.
Goal
Increase physical activity by ensuring that everyone, no matter where they live, has access to safe and desirable opportunities for play and active lifestyles.
Work Plan
Objectives
Create and operate Dearborn Healthy Streets program
Increase community awareness of availability and importance of physical opportunities including Walk n' Roll and other initiatives.
Improve and access transit through a multi-modal transportation plan
Healthy Environments Resources
Action Team Contact: Timothy Harrison
Action Team Meeting - 3rd Tuesday of each month
Breakout during monthly coalition meeting
Monthly Meeting Agenda
Breakout session agenda for monthly coalition meeting
Monthly Meeting Minutes
Meeting Minutes from previous month breakout session
Active Projects
Healthy Dearborn is proposing to conduct a pilot program to adapt some city streets to become “Shared Streets” to promote healthy lifestyles.
A Dearborn inter-school competition to promote walking and biking to school.
Free, fun and self-guided walks throughout Dearborn to promote literacy and physical activity using deconstructed story book pages.
Notable Achievements
Walk n' Roll
Jr. Challenge
Past Challenges
City of Dearborn
Multimodal Plan
Walk Campaign
Graham Park
Open Streets Dearborn
Bike Share
H.E.P.A. Presentation 2020
Walk n' Roll
Action Team Meeting Minutes
2020 Action Team Meeting Minutes
Google Sites
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