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Julie Jackman Fit City Worksite Wellness Program Mecklenburg County Health Department

Worksite Wellness Building Bridges to a Healthier Workplace. Julie Jackman Fit City Worksite Wellness Program Mecklenburg County Health Department. Presentation Outline. Why Worksite Wellness? Thinking outside the box: Policies for healthier workplaces

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Julie Jackman Fit City Worksite Wellness Program Mecklenburg County Health Department

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  1. Worksite Wellness Building Bridges to a Healthier Workplace Julie Jackman Fit City Worksite Wellness Program Mecklenburg County Health Department

  2. Presentation Outline • Why Worksite Wellness? • Thinking outside the box: • Policies for healthier workplaces • Built environments that enable healthy lifestyles • Making the effort complete: • Preparation, Programs and Promotion • Resources (with one workplace or an entire well workplace movement in your community) • Questions and Discussion

  3. Presentation Outline (annotated ~ Jen’s suggested thoughts on how to organize/what to cover • Why Worksite Wellness? • Start with your pie chart slide to set the stage. Then provide some context about why Meck Co. Health Dept started its worksite wellness program and what you are helping workplaces to do. • Thinking outside the box: • Emphasize that your initiative really focuses on helping workplaces to create cultures and environments that enable healthy choices among employees, instead of sabotaging their best efforts to be healthy. • Policies for healthier workplaces • Healthy Eating: Go through several examples of Healthy Eating Policy change. You currently have some great examples on there. • Physical Activity: Same as above. • Built environments that enable healthy lifestyles • Healthy Eating: Go through several examples of Healthy Eating Environmental change. You currently have some great examples on there. • Physical Activity: Same as above. Also, Very important to include encouraging employers to add showers and bike racks in the workplace. • Making the effort complete: • Preparation, Programs and Promotion • Preparation: talking about forming a workplace team (from your 10 steps), and the importance of assessment. You can talk about what you do when you complete an on-site assessment with an eye towards policy and environmental change. • Programs: Here it would be good to talk about the importance of offering routine opportunities for PA or HE. I think the healthy snack basket would be a great example of a program to show, since it is a routine HE example. • Promotion – keep your slide that talks about kicking off the program and branding it (one of the 10 steps). • Resources (give your website and the HWTF’s Fit Together workplace wellness website).

  4. Why Worksite Wellness? 50% of awake time is spent in the workplace…. Shouldn’t it be a place that encourages healthy lifestyles? Commuting Shopping Dining Family Time Other In the Workplace Asleep

  5. Why Worksite Wellness? • About Fit City Worksite Wellness

  6. Policies for healthier workplaces • Talk about why policy change is helpful. • Healthy Eating Policies (from your list) • Physical Activity Policies (from your list)

  7. Healthy Eating Policy change • Case example w/ pictures

  8. Physical Activity Policy change • Case example w/ pictures

  9. Environments that enable healthy lifestyles • Talk about why environmental change is helpful. • Examples of Healthy Eating changes (from your list) • Examples of Physical Activity changes (from your list)

  10. Healthy Eating Environmental Change • Case example w/ pictures

  11. Physical Activity Environmental Change • Case example w/ pictures

  12. Preparing for success • Talk about getting a workplace taskforce / group in place to lead the process and having support from company leadership. • Could also mention how Mecklenburg is trying to form a coalition of business leaders at the county level to focus on healthier workplaces – hopefully will be helpful in promoting more comprehensive change (e.g., better network of greenways for alternative commuting, etc). • Also talk about your assessment process for this program, what you look for when you do an assessment. How they can think about assessing for policy and environmental change.

  13. Programming opportunities for employee health • Give an example or two of a successful program.

  14. Getting employees on the bandwagon • Use your promotions slides.

  15. Resources • Your worksite wellness website • Fit Together’s worksite wellness website • Other?

  16. Questions and Discussion

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