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Self Management Assessment and Resource Tool (S.M.A.R.T.)
- Question 1: Our community has defined a mission and a goal for advancing smart growth principles.
- Question 2: Our community’s governing body has conducted or commissioned an assessment of what it will take to apply smart growth principles.
- Question 3: Our community has defined a mission and a goal for advancing smart growth principles. Our community has defined goals or a mission for increasing older adult participation in active aging/physical activity.
- Question 4: Our community’s governing body has conducted or commissioned a community assessment of older adult participation in active aging/physical programs or opportunities.
- Question 5: Our community has developed a plan that includes feasibility, costs, and impacts of adopting a smart growth approach to plan for the future.
- Question 6: Our community has studied the feasibility, cost, impacts, time frame and leadership for creating/promoting active aging/physical activity for aging adults.
- Question 7: Our community is actively engaged in formulating plans and strategies for specifically linking smart growth initiatives with programs, amenities or opportunities that include active aging/physical activity for older adults.
- Question 8: Our community has established interagency committees, task forces, or other community partnerships with local aging organizations, service providers, and agencies to coordinate activities and programs with smart growth and active aging/physical activity components and work with community planners.
- Question 9: Our community has legislative, zoning, comprehensive plan initiatives and other policies in place or in consideration that include provision for both smart growth and active aging/physical activity programs or opportunities for older adults.
- Question 10: Our community has created pilot programs, or has existing programs for active aging/ physical activity for older adults who take advantage of the resources and environments created by local smart growth activities such as safe walking area, biking amenities, age-sensitive exercise trails, safe parks, etc.
- Question 11: Our community’s comprehensive planning integrates smart growth principles and promotes application of these to encompass active aging/physical activity programs and opportunities for older adults.
- Question 12: Our community is increasing its capacity through actions such as budget allocation, staff resources, infrastructure improvement, etc. for systematically expanding smart growth activities.
- Question 13: Our community is reaching out to local/county/state officials and departments, land developers, and community organizations to expand smart growth activities.
- Question 14: Our community includes gathering evidence about and evaluating the effectiveness of and level of participation in our active aging/physical activity programs and opportunities for older adults.
- Question 15: Our community has an initiative that includes promotion, advertising, recruitment, and widely available programs and opportunities to engage more older adults in active aging/physical activity.
- Question 16: Our community has the capacity to implement a model program combining smart growth principles with programs emphasizing active aging/physical activity for older adults.
- Question 17: Our community has developed a plan that includes feasibility, costs, and impacts of adopting a smart growth approach to plan for the future.
- Question 18: Our community is planning to expand our smart growth and active aging/physical activity programs and opportunities to a wider segment of our population as well as with our partners that will support these programs.
- Question 19: Our community has an established coalition of service providers, advocacy organizations, businesses and governmental agencies who are cooperating to create more innovative and widely available programs that integrate smart growth principles and active aging/physical activity programs and opportunities.
- Question 20: Our community has an existing model program integrating active aging/physical activity and smart growth for older adults and we can provide technical assistance and a contact person to share information with other communities.
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