Funding Opportunity: Improving Active Transportation

The SD Department of Health is pleased to announce the 10th year of a technical assistance opportunity for South Dakota communities on conducting active transportation assessments that can jumpstart improvements to the built environment, enhancing walkability and bike-ability. Active transportation integrates physical activity into daily routines such as walking or biking to destinations such as work, grocery stores or parks. Creating activity-friendly routes to everyday destinations is an evidenced-based strategy to increase physical activity in communities. Previously selected communities include Huron, Mitchell, Salem, Volga, Ft. Pierre, Crooks, Burke, Tripp, Sioux Falls, Harrisburg, Sturgis, and Mission. One SD community, or two communities as a joint inter-community application, will have the opportunity to work collectively with South Dakota State University Landscape Architect (SDSU-LA) students under the direction of Professor Donald Burger during their spring City Planning course. SDSU-LA will conduct community engagement sessions, on-site assessments of the built environment, analyze their findings and present a final set of realistic recommendations to the stakeholders of the selected community. The full description and application can be found at HealthySD under the Funding Opportunities tab at the top of the page, or on Good&Healthy South Dakota.