The following are downloadable training materials that you can use to conduct your own trainings on smart growth for working families. All files are in pdf form.

What is Suburban Sprawl Q & A:
A simple handout which defines key terms like sprawl and smart growth.

Smart Growth for Working Families checklist:
A one-page checklist of the ways that smart growth improves the lives of working families.

AFL-CIO Resolution on Urban Sprawl and Smart Growth:
The text of the 2000 AFL-CIO Resolution on Smart Growth.

How Sprawl Harms Labor Unions:
A one page chart showing how specific labor unions are harmed by sprawl in different ways.

Opportunities for Linking Movements: Workforce Development and Smart Growth. Greg LeRoy and Sara Hinkley. Funders Network for Smart Growth and Livable Communities Translation Paper Number Two, June 2000.  An essay about the mutual self interests of workforce development and smart growth.

Talking to Union Leaders about Smart Growth, Good Jobs First, 2001. A hands-on tool to help smart growth activists reach out to union leaders based on working families' self-interest.

Labor Leaders as Smart Growth Advocates: How Unions See Suburban Sprawl and Work for Smart Growth Solutions. Good Jobs First, 2003. This survey of union federation leaders--39 central labor council leaders and 11 state labor federation leaders--reveals that all of them see serious problems in their regions being caused by suburban sprawl.