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This page contains a collection of planning webinars (online workshops). To ease navigation, the items are organized into topics and include short descriptions and hyperlinks to the source.
Accessibility | Aging Population | Bikability | Green Building | Healthy Cities | Health Equity | Healthy Food Access | Healthy Homes | Integrated Practice | Land Use Planning | Safe Routes to School | Schools, School Sitings and Joint Use Agreements | Street Design and Complete Streets | Transportation Planning and Active Transportation | Walkability and Pedestrian Safety
Accessibility
- Accessibility Standards: “The Basics”
- Accessible Schools The 2010 ADA Accessibility Standards and the Architectural Barriers Act (ABA) Accessibility Standard apply to many types of schools in the public and private sectors, including primary, secondary, trade schools and colleges and universities . This session will provide an overview of requirements in the ADA and ABA standards for newly constructed and altered school facilities and their related elements and spaces such as student laboratories, assembly seating, assistive listening systems, and much more.
- Accessible Hospitals and Other Health Care Facilities Section 223 of the 2010 ADA Accessibility Standard and the Architectural Barriers Act Accessibility Standard includes scoping provisions for medical care and long term care facilities. This includes hospitals, rehabilitation facilities, psychiatric facilities and detoxification Facilities. Learn more about patient rooms scoping for both medical and long term care and along with some of the special technical that apply to parking at specialized facilities, alarm systems and toilet rooms in intensive care units.
- Accessible Residential Facilities Many questions arise about accessible residential facilities. This session will focus on untangling the web of laws that address access to housing, including the Architectural Barriers Act, the Americans with Disabilities Act, the Fair Housing Act, and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act. Presenters will explain how the design requirements of these laws apply and review requirements in the ADA and ABA Accessibility Guidelines for residential dwelling units.
- Accessible Retail Stores and Spaces Retail stores and spaces may be located in variety of settings ranging from shopping malls and strip malls to spaces within airports, stadiums, government buildings and many other venues. Elements and spaces associated with retail environments, such as accessible routes, parking, checkout aisles, sales and service counters, queues and waiting lines, are all a part of the 2010 ADA Accessibility Standards. This session will review in detail requirements in the standards for these elements and spaces.
- Accessible Sidewalks and Street Crossings The Board is developing new guidelines for public rights-of-way that will address various issues, including access for blind pedestrians at street crossings, wheelchair access to on-street parking, and various constraints posed by space limitations, roadway design practices, slope, and terrain. This session will discuss the most recent draft and provide an update on the status of this rulemaking.
- Special Session — “Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on Accessibility Guidelines for Public Rights of Way”
- Vehicle Guidelines Update The Board originally issued its ADA Accessibility Guidelines for transportation vehicles in 1991. New technologies and vehicles have been introduced into public transportation. This session will review proposed updates to the ADA guidelines for buses and vans. Subsequent rulemaking will be undertaken to update requirements for rail cars and other types of vehicles covered by the guidelines.
- 2010 ADA Standards for Accessible Design
- Complying with the Americans with Disabilities Act within Safe Routes to School Presented by Lois Thibault, US Access Board.
- Creating Aging-Friendly Communities The Environmental and Policy Change for Healthy Aging Conference Series, from the CDC Healthy Aging Research Network and Creating Aging-Friendly Communities, provides four online modules. Each module includes online recorded presentations, interactive discussion areas, resources and tools that cover key concepts for the module topic.
- NACTO Urban Bikeway Design Guide
- Cycle Zone Analysis - Explore a new tool developed in Portland, Oregon for analyzing cycling conditions and learn how to apply it in your community
- PEDSAFE - BIKESAFE Learn about PBIC’s free, expert, online system to help you address bicycle and pedestrian safety and mobility issues.
- Ciclovías for Sunday Parkways How to make a street closing event work in your community, with examples from NYC, Miami, and Chicago.
- Bicycle Master Plans with Peter Lagerwey A step-by-step guide to creating a great bicycle master plan with Seattle’s expert, Peter Lagerwey.
- Level of Service for Bicycle and Pedestrian Transportation An introduction to bicycle and pedestrian Level of Service (LOS) models.
- Shared Lane Markings/Sharrows In-depth information about the uses, applications, and installation of sharrows.
- Greening the Neighborhood: An Introduction to LEED-ND This is the first course in a series of six courses to prepare for the LEED Neighborhood Development (LEED-ND) exam.
- GeoDesign Using CommunityViz: Buildout and Visualization In this course, you'll learn how the CommunityViz extension of ArcGIS can guide the design, and assess the impact, of a project.
- Designing and Planning for Healthy Cities The Security and Sustainability Forum hosted a conversation between three thought leaders in public health and urban planning and design — UCLA Professor Richard Jackson, co-author of Urban Sprawl and Public Health and co-editor of Making Healthy Places; and Tim Beatley of the University of Virginia and author of Biophilic Cities and Blue Urbanism plus several other books on urban and environmental planning.
- Strengthening Communities with Neighborhood Data Efforts to address the problems of distressed urban neighborhoods stretch back to the 1800s, but until relatively recently, data played little role in forming policy solutions. Published by the Urban Institute with support from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the new book Strengthening Communities with Neighborhood Data documents how government and nonprofit institutions have used information about neighborhood conditions to change the way we think about community and local governance in America. Erika Poethig, Urban Institute fellow and director of urban policy initiatives, moderated a discussion with the authors.
- A Road MAPP to Health Equity From the University of Virginia Master of Public Health Program in collaboration with the Virginia Department of Health, and the Virginia Public Health Association, “Mobilizing for Action through Planning and Partnerships (MAPP) is a community-driven strategic planning process for improving community health. Facilitated by public health leaders, this framework helps communities apply strategic thinking to prioritize public health issues and identify resources to address them. MAPP is not an agency-focused assessment process; rather, it is an interactive process that can improve the efficiency, effectiveness, and ultimately the performance of local public health systems.”
- Urban Food Systems: Planning Productions Facilities This course provides an in-depth explanation of the land-use and public health considerations for urban agriculture production facilities.
- Healthy Urban Food Systems: Planning Retail Facilities This course introduces how to integrate information from legal and public health perspectives to help create healthy food systems.
- Essentials for Healthy Homes Practitioners Training Course The training will help you understand the connection between health and housing and how to take a holistic approach to identify and resolve problems that threaten the health and well-being of residents. The training complements hazard-specific training in lead-based paint, radon, mold, pests, and asbestos. It identifies root causes of health problems in a home and links them to seven principles of healthy housing: keep it dry; keep it clean; keep it pest-free; keep it ventilated; keep it safe, keep It contaminant-free; and keep it maintained. Course participants will have a better understanding of how to collaborate to make healthy homes a reality in their community.
- Planning and Public Health: An Inflection Point for Integrated Practice-Place-Making for the Production of Public Health, from Advancing Health Equity: From Theory to Practice, the University of Virginia, Virginia Department of Health, and the Virginia Public Health Association. The webinar reviews the 2011 County Health Rankings, address the multiple factors that affect public health and outline how participants can begin to take action to improve health within local communities.
- “Healthy People, Healthy Places” Webinar Series (Convergence Partnership) An archive of past webinar Power Point presentations whose subjects include: “Talking about Healthy People in Healthy Places: Linking Values to Policy and Environmental Changes,” “The Art and Science of Evaluation: Sound Methods for Assessing Policy and Environmental Change,” and “Successful Partnerships: Strategies for Multi-Sector and Cross-Field Collaborations.”
- Land Use Planning for Public Health: The Role of Local Boards of Health in Community Design and Development, from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- The DIY Form-Based Code: Publishing and Expanding In this fourth course of the DIY Form-Based Code series, learn to publish your form-based code by using SketchUp and InDesign.
- Active, Healthy and Ready to Learn: Evidence for SRTS and Children’s Health In this webinar, we will hear from two experts in the public health field who have studied how programs such as SRTS can directly impact the health of children and their readiness to learn.
- Connecting Safe Routes to School and Health This webinar, presented by Arthur Wendel, M.D., M.P.H., Healthy Community Design Initiative, The National Center for Environmental Health, CDC, discusses how SRTS could provide a host of health benefits.
- Engineering Treatments and Strategies for Safe Routes to School, Part I Presented by: David Parisi, PE, TE, Parisi Associates Transportation Consulting and Michael Cynecki, PE, Traffic Engineering Supervisor for the Phoenix Street Transportation Department.
- Engineering Treatments and Strategies for Safe Routes to School, Part II Presented by: David Parisi, PE, TE, Parisi Associates Transportation Consulting and Michael Cynecki, PE, Traffic Engineering Supervisor for the Phoenix Street Transportation Department.
- Ensuring Your Safe Routes to School Program Includes Children with Disabilities This webinar addresses strategies on how to work with children with disabilities, what kinds of instruction they need, and practical advice on involving students, their parents and special education professionals
- Environmental Measures for Safe Routes to School: Understanding the Basics of Air Pollution In this webinar, Pat Childers, of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency walks us through a basic introduction to the different sources and types of air pollution and how they relate to Safe Routes to School.
- Great Ways to Include Bicycling in Your SRTS Program Your walking program has taken off, but how can you get more kids to bike to school?
- Pump Down the Volume: SRTS and Traffic Reduction Join us to explore the problem of traffic congestion as it relates to SRTS and then focus on two programs that have had success in reducing congestion and measuring traffic reductions.
- Promoting and Selling SRTS: National Resources to Give You a Head Start This 60-minute webinar will showcase many of the resources available to help individuals and organizations build their case for SRTS.
- Safe Routes to School in rural communities Presented by Cookie Leffler, State SRTS Coordinator, Mississippi Department of Transportation
- Top Ten SRTS Engineering Treatments for Improving Walking/Bicycling At many schools, some basic physical improvements are needed to provide a more safe and desirable environment for walking and bicycling. But which engineering treatments provide the greatest impact for Safe Routes to School.
- Ways to Involve Law Enforcement in Safe Routes to School Overview of why it is important to seek law enforcement involvement in Safe Routes to School programs and how to best involve officers in SRTS efforts
- Complying with the Americans with Disabilities Act within Safe Routes to School Presented by Lois Thibault, US Access Board.
Schools, School Sitings and Joint Use Agreements
- Location, Location, Location: New Guidance for Locating Schools in a Healthy, Sustainable Way During this webinar, our panel will discuss the U.S. EPA’s first-ever federal guidelines for locating school facilities and the model school siting policies for school districts developed by Public Health Law & Policy.
- Making New Places for Play: Joint Use Agreements Between Schools and Parks With limited and sometimes diminishing resources, communities across the nation are challenged to provide children and adults with opportunities for physical activity.
- Making New Places for Play: Joint Use Agreements Between Schools and Parks With limited and sometimes diminishing resources, communities across the nation are challenged to provide children and adults with opportunities for physical activity.
- The Real Cost of School Siting Presented by Matthew Dalbey, US EPA & Renee Kuhlman, National Trust for Historic Preservation.
Street Design and Complete Streets
Transportation Planning and Active Transportation
- A Primer for the California Public Health Community on Regional Transportation Planning and Sustainable Communities Strategies, from TransForm in collaboration with the California Department of Public Health
- Promoting Active Transportation: An Opportunity for Public Health, from Safe Routes to School National Partnership and the American Public Health Association
Walkability and Pedestrian Safety
- What Does It Take To Get Drivers To Yield: Engineering Measures That Work Engineering experts share their extensive knowledge and understanding of pedestrian safety and traffic control devices to address these questions.
- PEDSAFE - BIKESAFE (2.18.09) – Learn about PBIC’s free, expert, online system to help you address bicycle and pedestrian safety and mobility issues.
- Turning Walk to School Day into a Year-Round Pedestrian Program Presented by Sonja Atkins, Coordinator, Safe Kids Greater Sacrament
- Accessible Sidewalks and Street Crossings The Board is developing new guidelines for public rights-of-way that will address various issues, including access for blind pedestrians at street crossings, wheelchair access to on-street parking, and various constraints posed by space limitations, roadway design practices, slope, and terrain. This session will discuss the most recent draft and provide an update on the status of this rulemaking.
- Making Tough Choices Easier: How to Prioritize Pedestrian Infrastructure Need How do communities decide which infrastructure projects around schools will have the greatest impact? This webinar will help professionals prioritize projects and show how this prioritization process has been applied in two communities.