This community mobilisation guide is designed to help local community, park, and recreation agencies promote heart-healthy lifestyles and changes such as increased physical activity and heart-healthy eating among children and adults. The guide provides tools for implementing a Hearts N' Parks programme including background information and materials, techniques for creating and delivering heart-healthy activities to participants, tools and strategies for reaching targeted groups, forming partnerships, and working with the media, as well as assessment tools to measure programme performance. It includes many handouts/reproducibles on heart-healthy eating and physical activity to use with different audiences. An 8-minute video of Heart N' Parks activities and leaders, showing how Heart N' Parks worked for them, is also available.

Hearts N' Parks is a national, community-based programme supported by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) and the National Recreation and Park Association (NRPA).

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