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Flourishing Safe Routes to School projects see remarkable changes in the way students and parents choose to travel to and from school. These projects succeed by including each of the “Five E’s” of Safe Routes to School to ensure that their project is a well-rounded, multi-prong and time-tested approach to getting more students walking and bicycling.

ChangeLab Solutions, in collaboration with CA4Health, created an illustrated roadmap of the 13 policy options that can help make Safe Routes to School a permanent part of our communities. For additional information, download the accompanying brochure that breaks down the policy options even further.

The Safe Routes to School Policy Workbook is designed to help school board members, administrators, families of students, and community members create and implement policies that support active transportation and Safe Routes to School programs. The workbook will walk you through a series of policy options to help you build your own customized Safe Routes to School policy, which you can download and use in your community.

The Safe Routes to School National Partnership is a nonprofit organization that improves quality of life for kids and communities by promoting healthy living, safe infrastructure, and physical activity, starting with bicycling and walking to school and beyond. We advance policy change; catalyze support with a network of more than 750 partner organizations, as well as schools, policy makers, and grassroots supporters; and we share our deep expertise at national, state and local levels with those helping propel our mission.

The state report cards in this report make it easyto understand at a glance how states are doing in their support of walking, bicycling, and active kids and communities – where each state is doing well, and where there is room for improvement.