Wellness Program Action Plans.

The Wellness Committee ought to set out a plan for the entire year that outlines accomplishing goals and goals, as well as provides details for advertising and marketing and evaluating  the health promotion program.

The plan is the detailed map of what types of health promotion programs are going to be offered, when and where they’ll be scheduled, how they’ll be marketed and analyzed, and what the budget is.

It’s important to plan your wellness activities based on your objectives and objectives, in addition to the budget since different strategies will yield different outcomes.  For example, if your objective is to elevate awareness on a topic, then distributing flyers or scheduling a one-time education session may  be appropriate.

Nonetheless, if your goal is to change behavior, then different strategies might  be necessary, such as ongoing weekly sessions and support groups.  Click here to link to Program Design Options for more ideas.

Wellness Program Advertising and Marketing

This is the time to plan your advertising strategies! Precisely how can you market the health promotion program and ongoing activities?  No matter how you decide to, market often, keep it fresh, and remind workforce again and again!

Consider having an overall kickoff activity to let everybody know about the wellness program. Executive Management ought to provide the introduction or invitation so that all workforce are aware about their support and leadership in the wellness program.

Possible marketing methods -

o  Sending email messages, including reminders

o  Posting flyers,

o  Displaying bulletin board postings,

o  Writing articles,

o  Sending letters or

o  Sending special invitations.

Other Health Promotion Program Considerations -

o  Is the health promotion program promoted to all staff members or to a specific target audience?

o  Do you have a health promotion program champion (someone who’s connected with different groups in the corporation, and well respected) who can help in your promotion efforts?

o  If your marketing efforts don’t seem to be working, do you have a way to revisit and adjust your strategy?

o  How’ll you determine success and evaluate your health promotion program?  and how will you collect the information needed to evaluate your health promotion program?

Topics most often included in Health Promotion Programs -

o  Nutrition

o  Exercise/Exercise

o  Tobacco Use Cessation

o  Bone Health

o  Heart Health

o  Healthy Back

o  Stress Reduction

o  Chronic Disease Awareness and Prevention

o  Self-care; Wise Healthcare Consumer

o  Screening Services (Body Mass Index (BMI), blood pressure, bone density, cholesterol, glucose, posture, vision, and otherâ..)

o  Ergonomic Assessments

o  Wellness Fairs

o  Kids/family Events

o  Others topics that staff members have interest in

The topics and type of Wellness Program planned depend on the needs and interest, overall goal and resources available.

Program Design Options include awareness programs like handouts and/or education sessions, behavior modification or modification programs like smoking cessation and weight reduction classes, and environmental or organizational support like no smoking policies or healthful selections in vending machines.

The wellness programs planned also depend on the demographics of your workforce. When you have a young, healthy workforce, you might want to focus the wellness attention on keeping personnel healthy and not need to screen for disease.

Instead you could want to focus on healthy lifestyle behavior like exercise and good nutrition to prevent the begin of disease.  Click here for additional information on strategies for keeping workforce well, identifying disease early, or returning workforce to work who already have a chronic illness.

It is also important to consider, and plan how you will evaluate the success of your wellness program.  The system needs to be established for tracking certain data and recording events depending on the wellness program goals and desired outcomes.

Step 7 discusses wellness program evaluation in more detail.   and Step 6 will launch your wellness program!