Healthy Places is an evolving virtual resource center that offers a framework, resources and services to help organizations make dramatic, long-lasting improvements to places where children and youth live, learn, work, and play. Those improvements will enhance individual development, healthy eating, and physical activity.

At Healthy Places, we integrate research and public health and youth development practice to provide what people – as individuals, families, and communities – need to make informed decisions about what is best for their children and youth.

Healthy Places targets the increased problems in the U.S. of poor dietary habits, sedentary lifestyles, and youth at risk for overweight. Implicit in our framework is that these problem behaviors cannot be addressed in isolation. These problems are symptoms of a larger child and adolescent youth development system that needs leadership.