Hearts n’ Parks Community Mobilization Guide

Developed by the NHLBI and the National Recreation and Park Association, this community mobilization guide is designed to help local community, park, and recreation agencies promote heart-healthy lifestyle and changes such as increased physical activity and heart-healthy eating among children and adults. The guide provides background information and materials, techniques for creating and delivering heart-healthy activities to participants, tools and strategies for reaching targeted groups, forming partnerships, and working with the media, as well as assessment tools to measure program performance. It includes many reproducibles on heart-healthy eating and physical activity to use with different audiences.