Worksite Wellness Health Promotion

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Carver County Public Health Worksite Wellness Resource Center supports employers in the county by providing employee health improvement resources, strategies and tools to community partners to build and sustain a healthy workforce. These resources include: comprehensive worksite wellness programs, campaigns, policies, and other best practices that work to encourage healthy behaviors on and off the job.

Worksite Wellness Health Promotion

• Assessment tools
• Comprehensive worksite health promotion program
• Steps to building a comprehensive program
• Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) FAQs
• Risk factors of unhealthy behaviors & benefits of health promotion
• Cost benefit & return on investment (ROI)
  • CEOs on the Business Case for Worksite Health Promotion (Partnership for Prevention, 2005)
• Building a well workplace: 25 action steps
• Worksite goals and objectives from the 2010 Healthy People initiative
• Establishing a great wellness committee
• Worksite wellness online resources
• Aging workforce
• Biking local and national resources
• Campaigns, programs & toolkits
• Caregiver support in the workplace
• Emergency planning
• Employee health promotion vendors (local & national)
• Healthcare literacy
• Healthy eating policies and campaigns in the workplace
• Journals and memberships
• Local human resource organizations offering population health management solutions
• Physical activity policies and campaigns in the workplace
• Active Living Resource Center
• America on the Move
• Create a place that promotes physical activity (Prevention Minnesota)
• Exercise is Medicine™
• Get Active Challenge (American Cancer Society)
• Move More Stairwell Guide (Eat Smart, Move More)
• Physical Activity Practitioners in Public Health
• Policy Resource Guide for physical activity (National Coalition for Promoting Physical Activity)
• President's Challenge
• Shape Up Challenge
• Small Step (U.S. Health & Human Services)
• Start! Walking for a Healthier Lifestyle for Employers, Employees and Human Resource Professionals (American Heart Association)
• WELCOA
• Worksite Health (Partnership for Prevention)
• Safety in the workplace
• Tobacco control & smoking cessation

Current and Past Opportunities

• Worksite Wellness Advisory Committee (ongoing)
• Free eWorkPlace Luncheon at the Arboretum on August 18, 2009
• Bike enthusiast interest group meeting June 1st, 2009
• Healthy Eating in the Workplace Campaign to start in Jan 09
• Healthcare Literacy Seminar on December 9th 2008
• Wellness Works: Cutting Employee Health Care Costs conference agenda on September 16th 2008
  • Conference speakers slides
  • Speakers' bio
• Every Step Counts campaign from Sept 29- Nov 21st 2008
• Healthy Eating Lunch n' Learn Seminars Sept – Dec 2008

Worksite Wellness Newsletters from Carver County Public Health

• Fall 2009 - Understanding and Managing Stress in the Workplace
• Summer 2009 - Fresh Produce to Worksites
  • eWorkPlace Info Flyer
• Spring/Summer 2009 – Bike Share Programs Support Employee Health
  • Register your worksite for a bike walk teams
• Winter/Spring 2009 - Create a Worksite the Supports Healthy Eating
  • Healthy Eating Workplace Checklist from Prevention Minnesota
• Nov. 2008 – Health Risk Assessments
  • CDC HRA Checklist
• Sept. 2008 - Workshop & Physical Activity Campaign
• July 2008 - Free Wellness Opportunities
• May 2008 – National Employee Health & Fitness Day
• December 2007 Worksite Wellness Health Promotion Survey
• Sept. 2007 - Freedom to Breathe Act
• May 2007 - Wellness Committees Support Worksite Programs
• March 2007 - Worksite Environment Influences Healthy Behaviors
• Jan. 2007 - Preventing Heart Disease
• Nov. 2006 - Healthy Work Environment
• Sept. 2006 - Eating Right
• July 2006 - Emergency Preparedness
• Jan. 2006 - Stop the Spread of Germs

CCPH Worksite Wellness Resource Center Offers

• Advisory committee for local worksites
• Books to checkout
• Breastfeeding policies
• Drug free policies
• Free consultation services
• Healthy eating campaigns
• Healthy eating policies
• Measuring wheel to checkout
• Pandemic planning checklist
• Physical activity campaigns
• Physical activity policies
• Tobacco prevention policies
• Vending machine assessment
• Walkability assessments
• Worksite environment assessments

PLEASE LET US KNOW HOW WE CAN ASSIST YOU IN ADDRESSING YOUR WORKSITE HEALTH PROMOTION NEEDS. CALL (952) 361-1329

To contact us:

Carver County Public Health
Government Center Administration Building
600 East 4th Street
Chaska, MN 55318

Phone: 952.361.1329
Fax: 952.361.1360
E-mail: public-health@co.carver.mn.us