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Where Do Flint's Children Play

Healthy Kids, Healthy Communities, (HKHC) a national program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF), advances community-based solutions that will help reverse the childhood obesity epidemic. It focuses on changing policies and environments to support active living and healthy eating among children and families. Healthy Kids, Healthy Communitiesis RWJF’s largest investment to date in community-based solutions to childhood obesity. With nine Leading Sites chosen in late 2008, the Crim Fitness Foundation joins 41 leading sites chosen in 2009. All 50 sites are targeting improvements in local policies and their community environment—changes that research indicates could help children eat healthier and be more active, and thereby prevent obesity. Healthy Kids, Healthy Communities is a cornerstone of RWJF’s $500 million commitment to reverse the country’s childhood obesity epidemic by 2015. Flint’s Healthy Kids, Healthy Communities Initiative, known as Where Do Flint’s Children Play, will help create a safe and maintained park system to provide opportunities for youth and families to be physically active.

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Where do Flint’s Children Play? 

One third of Flint’s children are infrequently participating in physical activity.  One of the reasons for this may be the lack of safe public places for play.  The Crim’s HKHC initiative will address this issue by working with the City of Flint and a collaborative partnership to create safe and maintained parks for youth to have greater opportunities for physical activity. Our project will take time and is funded from 2009-2013.  Our goals over the next four years are:

  1. Create a replicable process that emphasizes community engagement to develop model partnerships for parks that fit its neighborhood
  2. Assist in implementing Flint’s Five Year Parks Plan
  3. Set standards of use for the existing dedicated millage (property tax assessment) for city parks and a strategy to renew it in 2016.  
  4. Provide recommendations through demonstrated success in focus parks for a strong, updated parks and recreation plan

Do you have something to say about the city parks?

Tell Us!

Take a few minutes to fill out a survey by April 16

Help make Flint city parks safer places for youth and families to play!

Click here to take the survey online! You may also pick up a paper copy of the survey at one of these locations:

  • Flint City Hall
  • GCARD
  • Genesee Co. Health Dept
  • Salem Housing
  • Christ Enrichment Center

Looking For A Map Of City Of Flint Parks?

You can download a pdf of a map of all City Of Flint parks by clicking here.