This webinar will review details of the Community Preventive Services Task Force recommendation, share resources to help professionals encourage people be active on trails and greenways, and provide examples from the field from CDC’s Division of Nutrition, Physical Activity, and Obesity-funded state, tribal, and local communities.

Presented by:

• Kaitlin Graff, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Webinar Outline

In 2020, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) launched Active People, Healthy Nation℠, a national initiative to help 27 million Americans become more physically active by 2027. The initiative is based on evidence-based strategies recommended by the Community Preventive Services Task Force (CPSTF) to promote physical activity. In 2022, CPSTF recommended park, trail, and greenway infrastructure interventions with additional activities, such as structured programs, to increase physical activity. This presentation will review details of the CPSTF recommendation, share resources to help professionals encourage people be active on trails and greenways, and provide examples from the field from CDC’s Division of Nutrition, Physical Activity, and Obesity-funded state, tribal, and local communities.

Learning Objectives:

• Describe the CPSTF recommendation on park, trail, and greenway infrastructure interventions when combined with additional interventions to increase physical activity and the use of parks, trails, and greenways for other health and social benefits.
• Identify opportunities for professionals to partner and lead efforts to increase physical activity and use of trails and greenways through infrastructure improvements, programming, community engagement, public awareness, and addressing other access barriers.
• Increase awareness and knowledge about how Active People, Healthy Nation is working with states, communities, tribes, and national partners to provide safe places to be physically active, such as on trails and greenways.

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