Active Living Council of San Antonio Updates Active Living Plan

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The Active Living Council (ALC) of San Antonio was formed in 2010 with funding from the Communities Putting Prevention to Work grant. The ALC developed and promoted the Active Living Plan for a Healthier San Antonio as a living document to promote active living, to reduce sedentary behaviors, and to increase physical activity in San Antonio (63.2% Latino).

Active Living Plan for a Healthier San Antonio shares the vision of the National Physical Activity Plan and is the result of a public and private sector collaboration to increase physical activity in all segments of the San Antonio Area population.

The ALC is now supported by the San Antonio Mayor’s Fitness Council. ALC members use this platform to further support and promote the plan’s strategies and tactics across the following 8 societal sectors:
• Business & Industry
• Education
• Healthcare
• Mass Media
• Public Health
• Volunteer & Non-Profit
• Parks, Recreation, Fitness & Sports
• Transportation, Land Use & Community Design

Because the Active Living Plan is a living document, members of the ALC began updating it in 2015 to prioritize the most up-to-date and relevant strategies and tactics for stakeholders, and to celebrate the successes of accomplished strategies and tactics.

When stakeholders (e.g., policy makers, funding decision makers, program providers, and community members) address the strategies and tactics in the plan, they can establish supportive policies, funding, and programs to increase physical activity and active living. Supportive policies, funding, and programs can positively influence participation in physical activity across the entire city, thus, reduce obesity and obesity-related disease and improve overall health and wellbeing.

Read about how healthy, equitable land use can be intentionally produced through strategic multi-sector action here.

Learn more about the Active Living Council, here.

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