Moving Employee Wellness Beyond

1. Moving Employee Wellness Beyond • Identify resources and success stories in HSP employee wellness programs. • Examine the importance of connecting staff interest surveys with employee wellness offerings and incentives. • Identify the steps needed to sustain employee wellness efforts.

2. Employee Wellness • What Is It?An Employee Wellness Program is an organized program for staff to enrich their physical, mental, and occupational well-being. • What Is The Goal? The goal of an Employee Wellness Program: To support individual behavior changes as well as policy and environmental changes that will promote good health for all staff members.

3. Healthy School Staff… • have less absenteeism • are more productive • have increased energy • have reduced stress • reduced healthcare and insurance costs • are positive role models for students

4. A Valuable Asset With 6.7 million people employed by public school systems, school districts put the nation’s schools at risk when they ignore the health of their employees WHY??? • Actions and conditions that affect employee health also influence students’ health and learning • Protecting the physical and mental health of school employees is integral to protecting the health of students and ensuring their academic success

5. It’s All in the Research • Health care cost per person decrease about $153 with every decrease in the number of risk factors, and increase about $350 with every increase in the number of risk factors. • For every $1 spent on wellness programs, an average of $3.50 is saved.

6. Strategies • Gather data and information to determine the nutrition and physical activity needs and wants of school staff members • Assess the availability of existing school employee wellness activities and resources • Encourage administrative support for and staff involvement in school employee wellness • Develop, implement, and evaluate healthy eating and physical activity programs for all school employees

7. Interests, Needs and Wants • Get employees excited about wellness offerings • Build ownership • Provide information for the design of the program • Help defuse resistance • Educational value for respondents • Provide information which can be used to evaluate impact of program

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9. Tips to Sustainability • Develop a budget • Reach out to your insurance carrier and broker for available services • Find free or inexpensive programs that you can easily roll out to your staff • Subsidize with other employees • Measure the ROI and reinvest some of the savings in future programs

10. Barriers, Solutions & Successes

11. Beyond T-Shirts What’s in it for me? What happens if I don’t? • Determine your target population and their characteristics • Identify Incentives • Link incentives to behavior or change • Evaluate the impact

12. EW Leader and Committee Interest Survey Action Plan/ Resources Track Participation Annual Evaluation Comprehensive District Plan District Insurance Coverage HSP Resources

13. “Do what you do so well they will want to do it again and bring their friends.” - Walt Disney

14. Michelle Owens National Student & Employee Wellness Manager Phone: 252-473-3776 michelle.owens@healthiergeneration.org