Website
http://healthbydesignonline.org
Primary Contact
Kim Irwin
Executive Director
Contact via email
Mission statement
Health by Design, or HbD, an Alliance for Health Promotion initiative, is a coalition that exists to ensure that communities throughout Indiana have neighborhoods, public spaces and transportation infrastructure that promote physical activity and healthy living. HbD helps create healthy, thriving communities by convening diverse partners, educating on best-practices, facilitating dialogue, promoting smart design, providing technical assistance and advocating for policy change. By raising awareness, providing education and encouragement, and monitoring how the places we create affect how well we live, HbD champions a built environment that promotes active living and protects the natural environment.
Actions
Actions are activities derived from the Plan 2020 planning process that a partner has committed to implement.
Health by Design is working on the following actions:
Strategy
Develop sustainable funding model for multimodal transportation infrastructure, operation and maintenance.
Action
Develop bipartisan taskforce to advocate for allocation of funds, and create revenue generation and/or city budget reallocation for multimodal transportation options, including transit, greenways, pedestrian and bicycle infrastructure
Start Date:
January 1, 2016
Completion Date:
December 31, 2020
Progress
100%
Strategy
Develop a pedestrian plan.
Action
Review gap analysis of existing Greenways plan conducted by Plan 2020 fellow
Start Date:
January 1, 2016
Completion Date:
June 30, 2018
Progress
100%
The Indy Moves Transportation Integration Plan was adopted on November 7, 2018 and included a gap analysis in its process. As a result a network of non-greenway separated multi-modal paths and lighter-traffic shared-street neighborways were added to connect and complement the greenways system.
Strategy
Develop a pedestrian plan.
Action
Develop and adopt pedestrian plan for county that supports barrier-free and accessible (ADA) environments, furthers complete streets and informs future infrastructure and transportation planning and implementation
Start Date:
August 1, 2015
Completion Date:
April 30, 2016
Progress
100%
The Marion County Pedestrian Plan was completed and adopted by the Metropolitan Development Commission on May 4, 2016 as transportation element of the Comprehensive Plan for Indianapolis and Marion County.
Strategy
Decrease the burden of chronic disease, increase the number of kids at a healthy weight (through the partnership with JumpIN), and improve the health of Central Indiana communities.
Action
Remain a partner of the Top10 Coalition to address the built environment as it relates to human health
Start Date:
January 1, 2016
Completion Date:
December 31, 2020
Progress
100%
Health by Design was an active participant in the Top 10 Coalition throughout 2016.