Families of the Future: A community centre course to get families cycling
The Families of the Future curriculum resource is for running a short course for families on cycling with young children.
27% of car trips in Melbourne are under 2 km in length - a distance which is easy to cover on a bike. Families of the Future was produced to support and enable more families to cycle as an everyday means of transport. Given the significant impact that the percevied dangers of cycling have on mode choice, this resource gives local governments a valuable tool in changing community attitudes to cyclng.
The program was developed and piloted between 2004 and 2006, before being packaged up in 2007 as a resource available for download. It was designed with neighbourhood houses and community centres in mind as possible hosts for the course, and is available for not-for-profit use by anyone.
See the Environment Victoria website for further details, or contact Murray Irwin, on 9341 8121 or murray [dot] irwin
environmentvictoria [dot] org [dot] au.
