Looking for worksite wellness program resources?  Here are some links, tools, and resources that can be used to help develop or enhance a wellness program at your worksite.

Wellness Tool-kits and TAVi Health Programs Available

Live Healthy Siouxland and Siouxland District Health Department (SDHD) are pleased to announce that Siouxland businesses can now checkout a varieity of wellness tool-kits and resources and wellness programs Free from SDHD. 

Wellness Tool-kits contains items such as globs of fat and muscles masses, sugar and unhealthy vending test tubes, flexibility tester, portion control and effects of smoking displays.  To learn more, click here.

TAVi Health wellness programs are ready-to-implement wellness challenges.  Programs available for check-out are range from 4 weeks to 9 weeks and are either individual or team-based challenges. To learn more, click here.

Worksite Wellness Resources

• WELCOA Well Workplace Checklist:  an interactive assessment that will help you determine how your organization is doing with respect to developing a results-oriented worksite wellness program.
• 2-1-1: A searchable database to help you get connected to resources offered in the Siouxland area.  An information referral specialist is available 24 hours a day to speak with in regards to your needs by dialing 2-1-1. 
• Stress Management: HelpGuide.org
• Ten Lifestyle Goals for Healthy Living (a document an individual can use to pledge to living a healthy lifestyle)
• Tobacco Cessation: Quitline Iowa
• Workplace Stretching: Benefits of WorkSmart Stretching for the Workplace (article) See the Welcoa special report on WorkSmart Stretching.  
• Goal Setting: Smart and Values Driven Goal Setting (article)
• Stickk.com: empowers individuals to better their lifestyle through 'commitment contracts' and goal stetting.  
• Ergonomics: WorkSmart Principles of Ergonomics for the 21st Century (article)
• Sample Needs & Interest Survey
• Making Worksite Wellness Work at Your School
• Health and wellness articles produced by St.Luke's.  Read and share articles with your employees related to prevention of slips, trips and falls, eliminating carpal tunnel and wrist pain, exercises you can do to improve posture, and other great topics. 
• Calculators
  • CDC's Obesity Costs Calculator
  • WellSteps Return On Investment (ROI) calculator. Use our ROI Calculator to project the impact of evidence-based HPM programs on health care costs, productivity, and absenteeism.  Compare these projections with the cost of doing nothing.
  • Wellness tools: Click here for a link to a BMI calculator, a Calorie Burner/Counter Calculator, Target Heart Rate Calculator, a Desirable Body Weight Calculator, a Nutritional Needs Calculator, and a waist to hip calculator.
  • Diabetes Cost Calculator for Employers
  • Basal Metabolic Rate Calculator

Worksite Wellness Tool Kits 

• • Healthy Iowa Worksites Toolkit
  • CDC's Healthier Worksite Initiative. Contains information, resources, and step-by-step toolkits. Be sure to scroll down and click on toolkits under Workforce Health Promotion Topic
  • Healthy Arkansas, For a Better State of Health's Worksite Wellness Tool Kit
  • Healthy Arkansas Guide to Worksite Wellness
  • The Department of Health and Family Services Division of Public Health Wisconsin Nutrition and Physical Activity Program's Worksite Wellness Resouce Kit
  • State Tool Kits and Resources are available on the CDC's LEAN Works website.

Policy Templates

• • Policy Drafting Templates

Return on Investment

• • Return on Investment (ROI) and Worksite Wellness: Measuring Value and Impact (Webinar Series) sponsored by National Business Group on Health. View the archieved webinars.

Worksite Wellness Program Ideas

• • Challenge U: a 4 week wellness program designed to encourage employees to participate in healthy behaviors (physical activity, nutrition, and stress managment).
    • Instruction Sheet
    • Registration sheet
    • Promotional flier
    • Activity point sheet
    • Weekly score sheet
    • Weekly email tips
    • Program Evaluation
  • Fruit and Vegetable Month Long Challenge
  • Holiday Maintain Your Weight Challenge
  • Iowans Fit for Life Active and Eating Smart Tools for Change 
  • Live Healthy Iowa 10 Week Wellness Challenge, Burst Your Thirst and more
  • Take Action! is a free, 10-week, Web-based program that empowers employees to improve their health by increasing fruit and vegetable consumption and/or physical activity.  
  • The Lieutenant Governors' Challenge is a 12-week reward based program. Participants set either a physical activity and/or nutrition goal. They then fitness points for walking or consuming fruits and vegetables. If an individual meets their goal at the end of the 12 week period, they receive a medal. Your Heart is in your HANDS Wellness Challenge Brochure
  • Winning at Weight Loss: A 3-month weight management challenge designed to help your employees safely lose weight in a fun, team oriented environment provided by Mercy Medical Center - Sioux City.

  • TAVi Health Incorporated: Combines the resources of an exercise physiologist and registered dietitian, a therapeutic recreation specialist, and a quirky creative director, we develop unique and innovative, competitively priced wellness incentive campaigns. Visit their website for more information.

  • Workrave: a free downloadable program that assists in the recovery and prevention of Repetitive Strain Injury (RSI). The program frequently alerts you to take micro-pauses, rest breaks and restricts you to your daily limit.

Healthy Eating Programs, Tools & Resources  

• Healthy Foods for Meetings Brochure
• Healthy Dining Finder: Find restuarants with healthy choices & view nutrition stats on-line.  
• Stop & Go Fast Food Nutrition Guide. This guide will help you sort through the fast food maze and select the healthy foods and avoid the unhealthy ones.  View and print the document by clicking on the link.
• Hy-Vee: healthy recipes and menu planner

Physical Activity Programs, Tools & Resources

• • Sample Release of Liability Form
  • Bike to Work Week
  • CDC's StairWell to Better Health Initiative
  • Map My Run: This resource can be used to help establish walking paths around our facility.
  • Physical Activity is Powerful Medicine (article)
  • Siouxland Trails Map, Sioux City, IA
  • Functional Circuit Training and Strength Training Benefits Your Heart (article)
  • Bicycle Commuter Subsidy Guidelines Example and Bicycle Commuter Tracking Log
  • Encourage employees to walk during their breaks and lunches.  Conduct a Walkability Assessment using this form.
  • Siouxland health club listing and information on corporate discounts.