2009 Program
“An early-morning walk
is a blessing for the
whole day.”
– Henry David Thoreau
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| Tuesday, August 18th Hilton Portland & Executive Tower, 921 SW Sixth Avenue |
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| Registration: 8:00AM to 6:00PM | |
| Kaiser Permanente Pre-Conference
Health Session 9:00AM to 5:00PM |
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| Climate for Change: Creating Safe, Active Environments for our Children is a one-day workshop designed for health care providers. Click to learn more. | |
| Wednesday, August 19th Hilton Portland & Executive Tower, 921 SW Sixth Avenue |
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| Registration: 8:00AM to 6:00PM | |
| Grand Ballroom II | Safe Routes to School National Partnership Annual Meeting: 9:00AM to 1:00PM |
| Alexander's | ODOT
Training Session for Oregon SRTS: 9:00AM to 1:00PM
Download the Oregon Action Plan presentation (PDF)
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| Exhibitors: 2:00PM to 7:00PM | |
| 2:00PM to 3:30PM | |
| Forum Suite | Linking Health to SRTS:
Health Impact Assessment and Evaluation
Download the Health Impact Assessment and Evaluation presentation (PDF)
Download the Health Impact Assessment fact sheet (PDF)
Download Health Impact Assessment case studies (PDF)
Download the Investment in SRTS Projects paper (PDF)
Download the Health Impact Assessment exercise (instructor) (PDF)
Download the Health Impact Assessment exercise (student) (PDF)
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| Alexander's | Teens in Motion: Youth & SRTS
Download Gwen Froh's presentation (PDF)
Download Claire Dannenbaum's presentation (PDF)
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| Grand Ballroom I | Supporting SRTS in Policy
Decisions Promoting SRTS in Green School Policy
Download the Promoting SRTS in Green School Policy presentation (PDF)
Download A Survey of District/County Offices of Education Practices and Perceptions (PDF)
Download Program and Policy Strategies brief (PDF)
Download a sample Board Policy and Administrative Regulation (PDF)
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| Galleria I | Collaborating for SRTS Massachusetts Community SRTS Project - Bringing together public, private, advocacy, state and local stakeholders
Download Three Sectors Come Together presentation (PDF)
Download WalkBoston presentation (PDF)
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| Galleria III | State and Local SRTS Efforts Taking it to the Next Level with a Statewide Center for SRTS
Download the How State Networks Can Boost Local SRTS Efforts presentation (PDF)
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| Council Suite | Sustainable Safe Routes to School
Initiatives: Case Studies and Perspectives
Sustaining SRTS Initiatives
Download the Sustaining SRTS Initiatives presentation (PDF)
Download the NE Iowa Regional SRTS Initiative for Healthier Students presentation (PDF)
Download the Urban and Suburban SRTS - Contrasting Successes presentation (PDF)
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| Galleria II | Walkability and Parent Advocacy in
Inner City Neighborhoods
Two Steps Ahead: Parent Advocacy and Leadership Development
Download Pedestrian Safety of Schoolchildren presentation (PDF)
Download Parent Leadership & Advocacy presentation (PDF)
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| 2:00PM to 5:00PM | |
| Grand Ballroom II | How to be a Successful Transportation
Advocate in Your Community
Download the How to be a Successful Transportation Advocate in Your Community presentation (PDF)
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Mobile
Workshop: BTA Bike Safety Curriculum
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| Refreshment Break: 3:30PM to 4:00PM | |
| 4:00PM to 5:00PM | |
| Grand Ballroom I | SRTS-Mapping Equity and Health in the
Future
Download the SRTS Mapping Equity and Health in the Future presentation (PDF)
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| 4:00PM to 5:30PM | |
| Galleria III | The SRTS National Partnership's Local
Schools Project: Preliminary Results
Download the SRTSNP Local Schools Project presentation (PDF)
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| Council Suite | Where You Put the School Matters! School
Siting Implications and New Guidelines that Can Help SRTS
Advocates
Download US EPA presentation (PDF)
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| Parlor A/B/C | School Safety Lessons from Europe and South
America
Download the School Safety Lessons from Europe and South America presentation (PDF)
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| Galleria II | Safe Routes to Sustainability
10 Years of Safe Routes in Marin: Overcoming Obstacles, Expanding Programs, and Attaining Sustainability
Download the Marin County presentation (PDF)
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| Alexander's | Educating the Next Generation
Make Trax: Youth as Change Agents
Download the Youth as Change Agents presentation (PDF)
Download Make Trax presentation (PDF)
Download the Quantifying the Love presentation (PDF)
Download CCC Student Skill Development Assessment (PDF)
Download the First Round Learning Objectives handout (PDF)
Download CCC Bike Club Pre Survey (PDF)
Download CCC Bike Club Post Survey (PDF)
Download the Final Learning Objectives handout (PDF)
Download CCC Bike Club Lesson Feedback Form (PDF)
Download CCC Bike Club Confidence Test (PDF)
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| Galleria I | Encouraging Family Riding Through Community
Events - Kidical Mass and other Fun Activities
Download the Kidical Mass presentation (PDF)
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| Forum Suite | A Step Up: Walking and Biking to School
Policies
Download the Creating Walking and Biking to School Policies presentation (PDF)
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| Ballroom Foyer | 6:00PM to 7:00PM: Reception |
| 7:00PM to 9:30PM: Dinner | |
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| 9:30PM to 11:30PM | |
Mobile
Workshop: Keep Portland Geared: An Evening Ride and Talk with Roger
Geller
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| Thursday, August 20th Hilton Portland & Executive Tower, 921 SW Sixth Avenue |
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| 6:30AM to 7:30AM | |
Morning
Yoga
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| Registration: 8:00AM to 6:00PM | |
| Exhibitors: 9:00AM to 6:00PM | |
| 8:30AM to 9:45AM | |
Watch a video recording of the breakfast plenary. Download Richard Jackson's presentation (PDF)
Download Joe Toole's presentation (PDF)
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| 10:00AM to 11:30AM | |
| Parlor A/B/C | Posters- Morning Session |
Mobile
Workshop: Walking/Biking Audit
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Mobile
Workshop: TriMet and Portland SRTS
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| Forum Suite | The View on Student Travel A National View of Parent Attitudes and Student Travel
Download A National View of Parent Attitudes and Student Travel presentation (PDF)
Download "Why Don't Children Walk to School?" presentation (PDF)
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| Galleria II | Benchmarks and Performance Measures:
Research Findings from a Review of Walking and Biking to
School
Download Benchmarks & Performance Measures presentation (PDF)
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| Galleria I | Exemplary Safe Routes to School
Programs
California: Advancing SRTS Programs through Coordination of National, State, and Local Efforts
Download A Tree Grows in Natomas presentation (PDF)
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| Council Suite | Safe Routes to School
Download Margo Pedroso's Going Green with SRTS presentation (PDF)
Download the Safe Routes and Climate Change presentation (PDF)
Download the Freiker presentation (PDF)
Download Ian Thomas' Going Green with SRTS presentation (PDF)
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| Pavilion West | Inclusion of Students with Disabilities in
Safe Routes to School
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| Galleria III | SRTS Design Strategies
Download Portland Engineering presentation (PDF)
Download Toole Design presentation (PDF)
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| Pavilion East | Parent Power: School Champions
Speak
Download Yolanda Morales' presentation (PDF)
Download Art Burden's presentation (PDF)
Download Sue Shattuc's presentation (PDF)
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| 12:00PM to 1:45PM: Lunch | |
Lunch Plenary Expert Panel
Watch a video recording of the panel presentation. Keynote: Loel Solomon, Kaiser Permanente, on "Pedaling for Prevention: Safe Routes as Good Medicine." Watch a video recording of the keynote speech. |
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| Parlor A/B/C | 2:00PM to 3:30PM: Posters (afternoon session) |
| 2:00PM to 3:30PM | |
| Galleria II | The numbers: Developing and reporting SRTS
evaluation indicators and benchmarks
Download The Numbers presentation (PDF)
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| Council Suite | Winning SRTS Campaigns
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| Pavilion East | Innovative Ways of Completing Large Scale
Safe Routes to School Plans
Download "part 1" of the Large Scale SRTS Plans presentation (PDF)
Download "part 2" of the Large Scale SRTS Plans presentation (PDF)
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| Grand Ballroom II | Why SRTS? Youth SRTS Using Social Marketing
to Engage Youth
Download the Using Social Marketing to Engage Youth presentation (PDF)
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| Galleria III | Youth Empowered Pedestrian Safety Project
with Feet First
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| Forum Suite | Taking it to the Streets: City, State, and
National Perspectives on Urban SRTS Programs
Download Melody Geraci's presentation (PDF)
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| Grand Ballroom I | Multi-sector Convergence Stategies for
Policy and Environmental Change
Download Elisa Wong's presentation (PDF)
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| Galleria I | Preparing Children for a Lifetime of
Walking Some day they'll need to cross alone: Age-appropriate pedestrian skill building
Download the Some Day They'll Need to Cross Alone presentation (PDF)
Download the Livable Streets Education presentation (PDF)
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| Pavilion West | When the Sneaker Hits the Streets: Lessons
learned from a pedestrian safety education program
Download When the Sneaker Hits the Street presentation (PDF)
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| 2:00PM to 5:30PM | |
Mobile
Workshop: Comprehensive Elementary Traffic Education: In-School,
On-Bike, and On-the-Street
Download the Comprehensive Elementary Traffic Education handouts (PDF)
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Mobile
Workshop: Dead Freeways
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Mobile
Workshop: From Platinum to World Class; A Ride with Portland's Bicycle
Coordinator
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| Refreshment Break: 3:30PM to 4:00PM | |
| 4:00PM to 5:30PM | |
| Grand Ballroom I | Many Schools Under One Banner: Sustaining A
Community Program
Maintaining Your Success: How One Small Georgia City - Decatur - Makes it Happen
Download the City of Decatur, Georgia presentation (PDF)
Download the Gilbert, Arizona presentation (PDF)
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| Galleria II | Getting the Word Out About SRTS Creating and Promoting a SRTS Safety Campaign: UDOT's Student Neighborhood Access Program
Download the UDOT's Student Neighborhood Access Program presentation (PDF)
Download the Empowering Advocates Through Effective Communication Strategies presentation (PDF)
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| Pavilion East | Safe Routes in Underserved Communities:
Barriers and Opportunities "Get with the Plan!" Lessons Learned in Building Sustainable SRTS Partnerships in Underserved Urban Communities
Download the Get With the Plan! presentation (PDF)
Download the SRTS and Tribal Nations presentation (PDF)
Download Heather Bowden's presentation (PDF)
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| Grand Ballroom II | Youth Take it to the Street: Action the
City of Portland and Local Youth are Doing to Bring about Safe and
Accessible Transportation for Students
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| Galleria III | Engaging Student Leaders in SRTS
Download the Engaging Student Leaders in SRTS presentation (PDF)
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| Pavilion West | SRTS: A Tool for Advancing the Healthy
People in Healthy Places Agenda in Low-income Communities
Download Glen Harrison's presentation (PDF)
Download the Sonoma County Department of Health presentation (PDF)
Download Robert Ping's presentation (PDF)
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| Galleria I | Built Environment: Inspiring Rural
Communities to Stay Two Steps Ahead
Download Built Environment presentation (PDF)
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| Council Suite | Panel: School Location, Neighborhood
Design, and SRTS
Download National Trust for Historic Preservation presentation (PDF)
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| Forum Suite | On Our Way to School: The Marketing of
Unhealthy Products to Children
Download the On Our Way to School presentation (PDF)
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| 6:00PM (Leisurely) Bike Ride to Street Party | |
| 6:30PM to 9:00PM
OnDeck Sports Bar NW Kearney and NW 13th | |
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| 7:00PM to 8:00PM | |
Safe
Routes to Donuts: Unique Portland
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| Friday, August 21st Hilton Portland & Executive Tower, 921 SW Sixth Avenue |
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| Breakfast: 8:00AM to 10:00AM | |
| Exhibitors: 9:00AM to 12:00PM | |
| Registration: 8:00AM to 10:00AM | |
| 7:00AM to 9:00AM | |
Breakfast
on the Bridges | |
| 7:30AM to 8:30AM | |
Breakfast Keynote
Watch a video recording of the Friday keynote. Download Howard Frumkin's Keynote Presentation (PDF)
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| 10:00AM to 11:30AM | |
| Forum Suite | Improving Routes to School
Download Selecting Engineering Improvements presentation (PDF)
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| Galleria II | Getting it Done: Successful Partnerships
for School Zone Capital Improvement Implementation
Download the School Zone Capital Improvement Implementation presentation (PDF)
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| Council Suite | Focus on the Fifth "E": Evaluating the
Effectiveness of Portland's SRTS Program
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| Alexander's | Safe Routes to Middle School
SRTS in Middle Schools: Relevance, Strategies for Implementation, and Resources
Download Engaging Teens and Tweens presentation (PDF)
Download Jim Elliott's presentation (PDF)
Download the Middle School Bike Safety, Fun & Interactive presentation (PDF)
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| Galleria I | Making it All Work: SRTS Programs for
Charter Schools and other Non-Traditional School Settings
Download the Making it all Work presentation (PDF)
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| Galleria III | Partnering with Transit
Building Synergy with your School Transportation Director
Download Dennis Grad's presentation (PDF)
Download Bob Riley's presentation (PDF)
Download Shane Rhodes's presentation (PDF)
Download Jennifer Selby's presentation (PDF)
Download Cynthia Hoyle's presentation (PDF)
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Mobile
Workshop: What Makes a Great Walking + Biking City
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Mobile
Workshop: Bike Club: Experiential Education Curriculum
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Conference Program and Areas of Focus
The SRTS conference will offer standard 90-minute workshops, as well as innovative, 180-minute interactive training opportunities that allow for more in-depth discussion, and hands-on events.
Though there will be opportunities to attend trainings and workshops that speak to a universal audience, we are excited to offer participants the chance to receive focused information pertaining to a single age group (K-5, middle school, high school) and/or a specific geographic location (urban, suburban, rural) to effectively meet the diverse needs of participants.
In addition to the age and geographic breakout, presentations will be framed as either “SRTS 101” or “SRTS Advanced” in order to give conference attendees the opportunity to participate in breakout sessions most attuned to their needs. For example, participants who are new to the movement will benefit from learning the history and organization of SRTS, while more advanced organizers will benefit from higher-level logistics, questions, and issues.
Within this framework, there are opportunities to touch on a multitude of subjects within the different themes. Though not limited to the following list, key subjects include:
Themes
- Transportation infrastructure and safety
- Targeting engineers, professionals, and others to learn most relevant and cost-effective infrastructure strategies to make children and families safe and comfortable while traveling by bike and foot.
- In-conference track that emphasizes the built environment and safety education for all road users
- Mobile workshops to see SRTS infrastructure projects and other infrastructure innovations
- Empowering families and youth
The conference will provide workshops and trainings on programs and research that are used to engage and empower youth and families- Targeting parents, youth, and organizers to expand SRTS programs in their schools and communities
- Presentations on community engagement that serve a variety of age ranges – information and resource needs for elementary school children differ than those of high school students
- Youth involvement at the conference that includes a half-day leadership workshop
- Family biking and walking parade to celebrate safe routes
- Education and encouragement program development
- Targeting education and program service providers to learn about program basics and best practices in the field
- Bicycle, pedestrian, and other safety curriculum concepts and sharing opportunities
- Health and Evaluation
- Targeting health care practitioners, health professionals, program managers, and interested persons with a pre-conference training on August 18th that will offer continuing medical education credit
- In-conference track that shows how Safe Routes to School can provide evidence-based impacts on personal, community, and climate health
- Growing the SRTS movement
- Targeting interested people and professionals that are working on, or are interested in, growing support and resources to accomplish SRTS work.
- Communication and marketing techniques
- Collaboration
- Policy work at the state and local level to leverage additional resources
- The reauthorization of Safe Routes to School in the federal transportation bill
Contact:
For further information regarding the 2009 SRTS National Conference, please contact Scott Yelton at (503) 226-0676 x27 and info@saferoutesconference.org.
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