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Evaluating the Impact of Safe Routes to School Infrastructure on Active Commuting and Child Physical Activity in Central Texas Schools

Gentles C, Emamian A, Salvo D, Hoelscher DH. Safe Routes to School Infrastructure Improvement and Child Health. Healthier Texas Summit 2025.
Topic(s): Safe TRavel Environments Evaluation in Texas Schoo
Content Type: Resource
Association between Parental Perceptions and Active Commuting to School in Children-TEXPOP

5/14/2025 - Swinney, K.; Zhang, Y.; Ganzar, L.A.; Perez, A.; Salvo, D.; Bentley, S.; Hoelscher, D.M. Association between Parental Perceptions and Active Commuting to School in Children. TEXPOP 2025
Topic(s): Safe TRavel Environments Evaluation in Texas Schoo
Content Type: Resource
Evaluating the Impact of the Safe Routes to School Infrastructure on Active Commuting in Central Texas Schools

Hoelscher, D. (Presenter); Zhang, Y.; Ganzar, L.A.; Lanza, K.; Salvo, D.; Bentley, S.; Pérez, A. Evaluating the Impact of the Safe Routes to School Infrastructure on Active Commuting in Central Texas Schools. Active Living Conference 2025.
Topic(s): Safe TRavel Environments Evaluation in Texas Schoo
Content Type: Resource
Methods for Developing and Assessing Reliability of a Micro-Scale, Built Environment Audit Tool for Research and Evaluation of Active Commuting to School. Active Living Conference 2025

Ganzar, L.A., DrPH, MPH; Burford, K., PhD; Salvo, D., PhD; Spoon, C.; Sallis, J.F., PhD; Hoelscher, D.M., PhD, RDN, LD, CNS, FISBNPA. Methods for Developing and Assessing Reliability of a Micro-Scale, Built Environment Audit Tool for Research and Evaluation of Active Commuting to School. Active Living Conference 2025.
Topic(s): Safe TRavel Environments Evaluation in Texas Schoo
Content Type: Resource
Examination of Neighborhood and Perceived Traffic-Related Safety Factors Associated with Active Commuting to School in a Large Urban City

Burford, K.; Salvo, D.; Kohl, H.; Ganzar, L.A.; Bauer, C.; Resendiz, E.; Zhang, Y.; Hoelscher, D. Examination of Neighborhood and Perceived Traffic-Related Safety Factors Associated with Active Commuting to School in a Large Urban City. (2025) Active Living Conference.
Topic(s): Safe TRavel Environments Evaluation in Texas Schoo
Content Type: Resource
Association between Parental Perceptions and Active Commuting to School in Children

03/2025 - Swinney, K.; Zhang, Y.; Ganzar, L.A.; Perez, A.; Salvo, D.; Bentley, S.; Hoelscher, D.M. Association between Parental Perceptions and Active Commuting to School in Children. TEXPOP 2025.
Topic(s): Safe TRavel Environments Evaluation in Texas Schoo
Content Type: Resource
Measuring weather in active living research: Agreement between objective and perceived weather conditions from the national Safe Routes to School tally

3/27/2024 - As extreme weather becomes more frequent and intense, reliable and validated weather measures are needed to evaluate the effects of climate change on children's physical activity (PA), including active commuting to and from school (ACS).
Topic(s): Safe TRavel Environments Evaluation in Texas Schoo
Content Type: Resource
Can We Re-Engineer Utilitarian Physical Activity Back into Our Lives? Challenges from Natural Experiments Evaluating the Effects of Urban Planning or Infrastructure Changes on Active Travel

5/20/2024 - Moderator: Deanna M. Hoelscher, PhD, RDN, LD, FISBNPA Michael & Susan Dell Center for Healthy Living
Topic(s): Safe TRavel Environments Evaluation in Texas Schoo
Content Type: Resource
Evaluating the Impact of Safe Routes to School Infrastructure on Active Travel in Central Texas Schools: Findings from the STREETS Study

9/9/2024 - Novel method for integrating accelerometry, GPS, and GIS data
Topic(s): Safe TRavel Environments Evaluation in Texas Schoo
Content Type: Resource
Exploring the transformative impact of substantial funding and strategic collaborations on Safe Routes infrastructure in Austin, Texas

9/30/2024 - Learn about the allocation, prioritization, and implementation processes for a comprehensive SRTS infrastructure project
Topic(s): Safe TRavel Environments Evaluation in Texas Schoo
Content Type: Resource
Safe Streets for Everyone? Equity Implications of Municipal Policies on Safe Routes to School Implementation

4/1/2024 - To provide community perspectives on barriers and facilitators for implementation
Topic(s): Safe TRavel Environments Evaluation in Texas Schoo
Content Type: Resource
National Nutrition Month 2015 Flyer

Flyer with activities hosted by the MSD Center during NNM 2015.
Topic(s): Nutrition
Content Type: Resource
TATAMS Parental Consent Form - English

Flyer with activities hosted by the MSD Center during NNM 2015.
Topic(s): Tobacco and Alcohol Abuse E-cigarettes TATAMS
Content Type: Resource
TATAMS Parental Consent Form - Spanish

Flyer with activities hosted by the MSD Center during NNM 2015.
Topic(s): Tobacco and Alcohol Abuse E-cigarettes TATAMS
Content Type: Resource
Physically Active Learning Summit flyer

PAL Summit flyer
Topic(s): Physical Activity
Content Type: Resource
Wilco Wellness Alliance Meeting Presentation

Texas Mother-Friendly Worksite Technical Assistance and Support Program (TMFW-TASP) Presentation at Wilco Wellness Alliance Meeting
Topic(s): Family and Child Health TMFW
Content Type: Resource
Child Obesity in Texas infographic (One-Page Printable)

9/1/14 - Child obesity rates and statistics on obesity-related health behaviors from the 2009-2011 SPAN Survey.
Topic(s): Nutrition SPAN Survey Obesity
Content Type: Resource
Healthy Meeting Guide

3/1/18 - This fact sheet gives tips on how you can have healthy and active meetings at your business or organization.
Topic(s): Nutrition Food Access
Content Type: Resource
Integrating Physical Activity Every Day in Every Way (PDF)

5/1/12 - Physical activity is key to maintaining a healthy weight. The way that environments where we live, work, learn, and play are designed and built— for example, whether there are sidewalks or bike lanes—influences how physically active we are. Source: Institute of Medicine
Topic(s): Physical Activity Obesity
Content Type: Resource
Activating Employers (PDF)

5/1/12 - Employed adults spend a quarter of their lives at the workplace, making it an ideal setting for promoting healthy eating and active living. Obesity is increasing employer costs, economic and otherwise. Because employers bear direct medical and indirect productivity costs of obesity, they can benefit from promoting and increasing physical activity, healthy eating, breastfeeding, and overall well-being in the workplace. Source: Institute of Medicine
Topic(s): Family and Child Health Nutrition Physical Activity Obesity
Content Type: Resource
2008 Physical Activity Guidelines for Americans

1/1/08 - The Federal Government has issued its first-ever Physical Activity Guidelines for Americans. They describe the types and amounts of physical activity that offer substantial health benefits to Americans.
Topic(s): Physical Activity Health Policy Obesity
Content Type: Resource
The Grocery Gap: Who Has Access to Healthy Food and Why it Matters (2010)

5/1/10 - The report from the Food Trust presents a comprehensive review of studies of Health Equity and Place and its impacts — 132 studies conducted in the United States in the past 20 years.
Topic(s): Nutrition Food Access Obesity
Content Type: Resource
Creando Una Cultura De Caminar Y Andar En Bicicleta

7/11/17 - Esta infografía describe la importancia de los eventos de "Calles abiertas" para promover la actividad física de la comunidad con andar en bicicleta y caminar.
Topic(s): Spanish Physical Activity
Content Type: Resource
Better Together Part 1: Pregnancy & Fetal Development

Duration: 1.5 hours; Target Audience: Community Health Workers; Describe fetal development during a healthy pregnancy, identify the function of a placenta, identify different tests and exams used to assess festal development, and describe the most common birth defects.
Topic(s): Family and Child Health Maternal and Child Health (MCH) Training Program
Content Type: Resource
Developmental Delays: Fine & Gross Motor Skills

Duration: 1.5 hours; Target Audience: Community Health Workers; Certifications: 1.5 DSHS Certified CEUs for Community Health Workers; Define fine and gross motor skills, Identify typical fine and gross motor skill milestones, and list strategies for in-home parent led interventions to improve motor skills.
Topic(s): Family and Child Health Maternal and Child Health (MCH) Training Program
Content Type: Resource
Nutrition and Exercise for Mental Wellness

Duration: 1.0 hours; Target Audience: Community Health Workers; Certifications: 1.0 DSHS Certified CEUs for Community Health Workers; Define good physical and mental health, identify how your physical health affects your mental health, identify how nutrition plays a role for your mental wellness, identify good nutrition for your mental and physical wellness, and understand more how physical activity plays a role for your mental wellness.
Topic(s): Family and Child Health Nutrition Maternal and Child Health (MCH) Training Program
Content Type: Resource
Overview of Mental Wellness

Duration: 2.0 hours; Target Audience: Community Health Workers; Certifications: 2.0 DSHS Certified CEUs for Community Health Workers; This course provides a broad overview of mental wellness. Course content includes defining mental wellness and understanding the different aspects of mental wellness. This course also describes how to cope with poor mental wellness by highlighting several coping techniques.
Topic(s): Family and Child Health Maternal and Child Health (MCH) Training Program
Content Type: Resource
Better Together Part 2: Behaviors that Affect Pregnancy

Duration: 1.0 hours; Target Audience: Community Health Workers; Certifications: DSHS Certified CEUs pending; There are several behaviors that affect the health of the baby during a pregnancy. In this module, we will discuss the behaviors that harm the baby and negatively affect the pregnancy, including smoking, alcohol consumption, and use of drugs and medicines.
Topic(s): Family and Child Health Maternal and Child Health (MCH) Training Program
Content Type: Resource
Better Together Part 3: Social Support in Prenatal Care

Duration: 2.0 hours; Target Audience: Community Health Workers or Support Group Leaders; Certifications: 2.0 DSHS Certified CEUs for Community Health Workers; This course is aimed at increasing awareness of the various benefits of social support groups for both mothers and their offspring. In great detail, this training explains the benefits of social support groups and equips the learner with the skills to create and maintain his or her own social support group.
Topic(s): Family and Child Health Maternal and Child Health (MCH) Training Program
Content Type: Resource
Safe Sleep

Duration: 1.5 hours; Target Audience: Community Health Workers; Certifications: DSHS Certified CEUs pending; Understand the proper guidelines for safe sleep, outline best practices to improve compliance of parents and caregivers to safe sleep guidelines, state how to reduce perceived barriers to safe sleep, and identify safe sleep environments and potential hazards.
Topic(s): Family and Child Health Maternal and Child Health (MCH) Training Program
Content Type: Resource
Addressing Infant Mortality: Preconception Health

Duration: 1.5 hours; Target Audience: Community Health Workers; Certifications: 1.5 DSHS Certified CEUs for Community Health Workers; Explore ways that women's preconception health affects their risk for complications and infant death. Practice counseling women on how to make a life plan.
Topic(s): Family and Child Health Maternal and Child Health (MCH) Training Program
Content Type: Resource
Community Engagement and Cultural Competence

Duration: 1.5 hours; Target Audience: Community Health Workers & Program Implementers; Certifications: 1.5 DSHS Certified CEUs for Community Health Workers; Explore how cultural competency is needed in healthcare and how to improve cultural competency of your organization. Design an approach to increase cultural competency in a community setting. Develop a plan for increasing community involvement in your program.
Topic(s): Family and Child Health Maternal and Child Health (MCH) Training Program
Content Type: Resource
Delivery and the First Hour

Duration: 1 hour; Target Audience: Community Health Workers; Certifications: 1.0 DSHS Certified CEUs for Community Health Workers; Describe a birth plan, explain the rights of childbearing women, explore the roles of a birth partner, and explain 3 evidence-based practices for the first hour after an infant is born: skin-to-skin contact, delayed cord clamping, and delayed bathing.
Topic(s): Family and Child Health Maternal and Child Health (MCH) Training Program
Content Type: Resource
Gestational Diabetes Mellitus

Duration: 1 hour; Target Audience: Community Health Workers; Certifications: 1.0 DSHS Certified CEUs for Community Health Workers; Identify factors that affect the onset of gestational diabetes, causes of the disease, the effect on mother and baby, and how best to prevent and manage it.
Topic(s): Family and Child Health Maternal and Child Health (MCH) Training Program
Content Type: Resource
Program Planning

Duration: 3 hours; Target Audience: Public Health Program Managers; An introduction to program planning tools, this training includes: the ecological model, creating a logic model, and evidence-based program planning as 3 distinct units. We will walk you through steps to make an evidence-based program plan.
Topic(s): Family and Child Health Maternal and Child Health (MCH) Training Program
Content Type: Resource
Community Health Improvement Plan: Austin/Travis County

8/1/2018 - Where and how we live, work, play, and learn affects our health. Understanding how these factors influence health is critical for developing the best strategies to address them. To accomplish these goals, our community is undergoing a comprehensive community health planning effort to measurably improve the health of Austin/Travis County residents. This effort is led by Austin Pubic Health in collaboration with multiple organizations including UTHealth School of Public Health in Austin.
Topic(s): Community Development Health Policy
Content Type: Resource
Together We Thrive: Austin/Travis County Community Health Plan

12/1/2012 - Health is affected by where and how we live, work, play, and learn. Understanding these factors and how they influence health is critical to efforts aimed to improve the health of the community. Identifying the health issues of an area and their larger context and then developing a plan to address them are key steps in the larger health planning process. To accomplish these goals, Austin/Travis County Health and Human Services in collaboration with multiple organizations including UTHealth School of Public Health.
Topic(s): Community Development Health Policy
Content Type: Resource
Evaluation of the Austin/Travis County Community Health Assessment and Community Health Improvement Plan

10/25/2016 - In 2011, Austin/Travis County (ATC) Health and Human Services launched the CHA/CHIP, a collaborative, 5-year community health assessment (CHA) and planning initiative (CHIP) aimed at identifying and prioritizing key health needs of residents in Austin/Travis County and developing and implementing a community-wide health improvement plan of action. In an effort to further document and evaluate the process, progress, and lessons learned of this first cycle, researchers at the Michael & Susan Dell Center for Healthy Living based at the UTHealth School of Public Health in Austin were contracted to conduct a posthoc stakeholder evaluation of the ATC CHA/CHIP (2011-2016).
Topic(s): Community Development Health Policy
Content Type: Resource
Community Leadership

Duration: 1 hour; Target Audience: Community Health Workers; Certifications: 1 DSHS Certified CEU for Community Health Workers; Reflect on your leadership skills, watch videos about leadership, read about characteristics of effective leaders, and most importantly, think about how you would apply these leadership principles in your work.
Topic(s): Family and Child Health Maternal and Child Health (MCH) Training Program
Content Type: Resource
Nutrition: 6 to 24 Months

Duration: 1.5 hours; Target Audience: Community Health Workers; Certifications: 1.5 DSHS Certified CEUs for Community Health Workers; Identify nutrition guidelines at different stages of growth from 6 to 24 months, describe the differences between store bought and homemade baby food, and state strategies for making meal planning easier for families with small children.
Topic(s): Family and Child Health Nutrition Maternal and Child Health (MCH) Training Program
Content Type: Resource
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