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A Community-Based approach to Worksite Wellness
Visualize health as energy and vitality, not solely as the absence of disease.
Together Everyone Achieves More ◦ Bringing communities and small businesses
together to create a wellness program that is shared and owned by small businesses and transforms our communities into more healthy, vibrant places to live and work.
20 Communities ◦ 10 Main Street Maine Communities ◦ 10 Maine Downtown Network Communities
Recruit 10 employers in each community
Employers and Supporting Organizations make up Community Wellness Committee
Community Wellness Team works to ◦ Support Employer Wellness Programs ◦ Improve employee and community health through
environmental changes
Employers work to support employee health through environmental and policy changes at their worksite(s)
Maine Development Foundation
Main Street Maine Communities
Maine Downtown Network Communities
HMS Leadership Team
MCD Public Health
Community Partners
Leadership Support
Assessment
Planning
Implementation
Evaluation
Wellness Committee ◦ Chair appointed by Board of
Directors
◦ Committee reports to Board of Directors
10 Employers ◦ Letter of Commitment
◦ Appointed Wellness Leader
Financial Support ◦ Incentives
◦ Strategies / Interventions
Healthy Maine Works Planning & Assessment Tool ◦ Employee Health Needs and
Interest Survey
◦ Worksite Inventory
Health Risk Assessment ◦ Employee Health Risk Data at
Community Level
Community Health Assessment ◦ Asset Resource Guide
Develop a Work Plan with SMART Goals ◦ Healthy Maine Works Assessment
and Planning Tool Work Plan Instrument
◦ Required Objectives Physical Activity Healthy Eating Tobacco Use
◦ Additional Objectives Stress / Depression Safety Preventative Screenings Other objectives as identified in assessment phase
Assign Roles & Responsibilities
Meet timelines
Review progress regularly
Engage employers and employees
Utilize effective marketing principles
Build interest
Reduce Roadblocks
Provide Incentives
Help people see the value
Provide recognition and celebrate that you care
Health Risk Change Data
Community and Employer Environmental Changes
Employee participation and satisfaction data
Reports ◦ 1st Quarter (January 1 – March 31) due April 15
◦ 2nd Quarter (April 1-June 30) due July 15
◦ 3rd Quarter (July 1-September 30) due October 15
◦ 4th Quarter (October 1-December 31) due on January 15
Phil DiRusso, Worksite Health Specialist ◦ ME DHHS – CDC Cardiovascular Health Program ◦ MCD Public Health ◦ [email protected] ◦ 207-622-7566 x. 262 ◦ www.HealthyMaineWorks.com