WorkWell Missouri

1. WorkWell Missouri Improving productivity Managing your bottom line

2. Presented by: Margie Meyer Manager, WorkWell Missouri meyermm@missouri.edu 573.884.8711

3. Picture here MU Extension MU Extension educates people to make their lives better 114 counties + St. Louis 4-H Youth Development Agriculture and Natural Resources Nutrition and Health Community Development Continuing Education Business Development

4. Picture here Healthy Lifestyle Initiative • An initiative designed to be a partnership with communities at the local level to achieve impact by improving the health of Missouri communities

5. Picture here Vision Create communities that support the availability of healthy, affordable, locally-produced food and safe, accessible physical activity

6. Picture here Healthy Lifestyle Initiative Focus Work with communities to create an environment that “makes the healthy choice the easy choice” • Changing the community environment • Fostering coalitions and networks • Influencing policy and changing organizational practices

7. Picture here Why a community driven approach? • Creates ownership by community residents • Increases the chance for success • Allows communities to tap their assets and use them with efficiency and direction • Creates numerous opportunities to partner, collaborate, expand, and enrich initiatives

8. Picture here Why target environment and policy changes? • Targeting the larger community environment is emerging as the only practical way to address this issue on a large scale • In order for individual behaviors to be sustained, they must be able to be carried out in an environment that supports healthy choices • Increases the chance for success

9. Picture here Pilot sites • Dent County • Ralls County • Boone County • Lafayette County

11. Picture here What is Worksite Wellness? Worksite wellness refers to the education, activities, environmental and policy changes that a worksite may do to promote healthy lifestyles to employees and their families.

12. Picture here Work Site Vision Create a roadmap to encourage a healthier workforce that is productive and competitive

13. Picture here WorkWell Missouri Toolkit Step 1: Why have a worksite wellness program? Step 2: How to get started Step 3: Assessing your worksite Step 4: Programming for your worksite Step 5: Making decisions – where to focus your efforts Step 6: Evaluating your program: Is it doing any good?

14. Picture here Resources – Design your workforce program Low resources • Support physical activity breaks during the day • Send healthy food messages to employees Medium resources • Provide outdoor exercise areas like fields and trails for employee use • Offer local fruits and vegetables at the worksite High resources • Provide an on-site exercise facility • Provide incentives for participation in nutrition and/or weight management activities

15. Picture here Cape Girardeau WorkWell Model • Cape Girardeau Health committee spent 6 months planning a worksite wellness training for business owners • Recruited: Exercise Physiologists • Recruited: Wellness Directors from two local hospitals “WorkWell initiative is a step by step training aimed at providing an individualized approach to not only understanding what a wellness program is, but just how a few people at your place of business can start the process”. Tim Arbeiter, Cape Chamber

18. Picture here • Safeway CEO believes utilizing market-based solutions can reduce our nation’s health-care bill by 40%. • The key to achieving these savings is health-care plans that reward healthy behavior. Safeway’s Story

19. Picture here • As a self-insured employer, Safeway designed a plan in 2005 and made improvements each year. • During this four-year period, they kept their per capita health-care costs flat. . . • While most American companies’ costs increased 38% over the same four years.

20. Picture here • Safeway borrowed from the well-tested automobile insurance model that translated into premium differences among drivers. • Safeway utilized a provision in the 1996 Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act that permits employers to differentiate premiums based on behaviors. • Safeway’s Healthy Measures program is building a culture of health and fitness focused on: Tobacco usage Healthy weight Blood pressure Cholesterol levels

21. Picture here Results • Safeway’s obesity and smoking rates are 70% of the national average. • Safeway’s health-care costs have been held constant. • Health premiums were reduced $780 for individuals and $1,560 for families if they pass all four tests. • 76% of non-union employees asked for more financial incentives to reward healthy behaviors.

22. Picture here What can you do as a Chamber? • You can replicate Cape’s success • You can take ownership of worksite wellness in your community • You can coach businesses in your area • You can use the getting started materials • Health starts where we work

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