Blueprint for Wellness
- Wednesday, January 12th, 2011
New Resource: Blueprint for Wellness
This resource is intended to be a guide to help implement and sustain your school employee wellness program. The blueprint is based off WELCOA’s Seven Benchmarks of result-oriented workplace wellness programs, and modified to fit school settings. Each step helps you understand what you need to do before, during, and after your grant cycle to build a sustainable wellness program.
The Steps:
1. Obtain Administration and Board Support
2. Establish a Wellness Coordinator and Create a Wellness Team
3. Collecting and Analyzing Data
4. Develop an Operating Plan
5. Choosing and Scheduling Appropriate Wellness Events
6. Creating a Supportive Environment and Using Incentives
7. Evaluate Outcomes
Check out the full Blueprint for Wellness in our resource section of our website.
Tracking Forms and Challenges
- Wednesday, January 12th, 2011
Look for tracking forms and challenges in our resource section of our website that our grantee recipients are using. Tracking forms are an excellent way of providing accountability and competition. Keep the forms simple: easy to understand and easy to fill out. Use incentives throughout the tracking process to motivate participants.
Google docs
- Wednesday, January 12th, 2011
Did you know Google docs is a FREE online tool where you can create and send surveys? The surveys are confidential and you’re able to send the surveys to your participants email. All the submitted surveys get put into a spreadsheet where only the conductor of the survey can see the data to analyze.
To create a survey go to www.docs.google.com and go to New and then click on Form (If you don’t have an account you must sign up first). Then you can create your questions and answers (multiple choice, short answer, check boxes, and others). Once you’ve finished, email the survey out to all your participants.
Go to Google docs and see all the cool things you can create and share. 
