Active Community Environments

Active Community Environments (ACEs) are places where people of all ages and abilities can easily enjoy walking, bicycling, and other forms of recreation.  ACEs are healthy places to live!

ACEs is a health initiative sponsored by the US Centers for Disease Control (CDC) to help Americans improve their health by increasing physical activity.  ACEs are also being recommended by the US Surgeon General, President Bush, and other health and fitness organizations.  To learn more about ACEs, explore the website information below:

Active Community Environments: (ACEs)

• ACEs Public Health Program (Centers for Disease Control)

• ACEs Overhead/Handout (Ron Jones-PDF)

"All truly great thoughts are conceived while walking."
--Nietzsche

ACEs-Related Physical Activity Programs: GET MOVING!

• ActionForHealthKids.Org (National Healthy School Environment Program)

• CANFIT.Org (CA Adolescent Nutrition & Fitness Program) 

• Fitness.Gov (President's Council on Physical Fitness & Sports)

• HealthierUS.Gov (New U.S. Health Initiative!)

• HealthTeacher.Com (Awesome Health & Fitness Teaching Guide!)

• JustMove.Org (American Heart Association)

• National Coalition for Promoting Physical Activity

• Nutrition & Physical Activity Programs (Centers for Disease Control)

• PE4Life.Com (Physical Education Advocacy Group)

• PE Central

• PEP-Personal Energy Program (Centers for Disease Control Worksite Health)

• PHAT-Promoting Physical Activities Together (CA Adolescent Nutrition & Fitness Program) 

• Physical Activity & Nutrition Programs (CA Dept. of Health Services)

• Physical Education & Activity (CA Department of Education's School Health Connections)

• Planning & Designing Physically Active Communities

• Public Health & Activity Programs (Centers for Disease Control) 

• Ready. Set. It's Everywhere You Go! (CDC Physical Activity Campaign)

• Shape Up America! (by Former US Surgeon General C. Everett Koop)

• SPARK (Sports, Play, & Active Recreation for Kids K-6 Program by the SDSU Foundation)

• Take Action! (California's new Worksite Health Program)

"The essence of decay is inactivity."
--Jack La Lanne, Fitness Pioneer

Physical Activity Advocacy Organizations:

• American Alliance for Health, PE, Recreation, & Dance (AAHPERD)

• CA Association for Health, PE, Recreation, & Dance (CAHPERD)

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(Updated 11.23.07)

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