mspWellness virtual events coming up! |
The mspWellness team has been working hard preparing for May, which is Mental Health Awareness Month. This is an increasingly important topic for employers and workplaces as remote work, technological advances, and caregiving responsibilities continue to impact employee mental health more than ever before. |
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Free Live Webinar: “Good Mental Health in the Workplace: Five Things You Can Do” |
Join mspWellness and Guest Speaker Catherine Christiansen from NAMI Minnesota on May 24th for a free live webinar to recognize and celebrate Mental Health Awareness Month 2023. Learn the five things you can do to create a workplace that values good mental health. Participants will learn how to promote good mental health (including dealing with stress), the common symptoms of a mental illness, how attitudes and language impact people with mental illnesses, and accommodations for a mental illness. This program is designed for employees, supervisors, organizational leaders, owners, board members and human resource professionals.
And, stay tuned on mspwellness.com for more May and June events to be announced soon! |
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How your organization can “go green” to celebrate Earth Day! |
To improve health and well-being, we need to maintain the health of our communities and environment. Taking time to reflect on your organization’s environmental footprint is one way to move to a collective goal of preserving the earth for generations to come.
Here are some ways your organization can make a difference:
- Host recycling drives
- Provide and encourage safe medication disposal
- Invest in solar and other renewable energy
- Go paperless
- Monitor your waste
- Make energy efficient updates
- Recycle, including organics
- Buy locally
- Improve your surrounding environment
- Make a commitment to sustainability
When we take care of our earth and environments, our communities and the people living in them will thrive. For more information on these tips and ways that HealthPartners has implemented them, check out our blog: HealthPartners is going green
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Hennepin County Step to it Challenge |
The Step to it Challenge is meant to motivate people of all ages and abilities to become more active after the long winter. Anyone can join and participate individually or as a group. Schools, workplaces, faith communities, families, and neighborhoods can form a group and participate together.
Challenge details:
- Registration opens April 1
- Challenge runs May 1–28
- Free and open to everyone
- Any activity counts as steps
- Participants have the chance to win MN Twins game tickets
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April is 30 Days of Biking! |
This month-long initiative began in the Twin Cities in 2010 and has now spread around the world. The idea is simple: pledge to get on a bike every day in April - whether commuting to work, riding trails with friends, or just around the block. If you miss a day, no worries. Just keep riding and don’t give up! It's all for fun, or as serious as you want it to be. What matters is we’re all in this together. Share your adventures online using the hashtag #30daysofbiking and join a global “community of joyful cyclists”. |
And, join Recovery Bike Shop and the Northeast Minneapolis Chamber for the Great Northeast Mural Scavenger Hunt! Every morning of 30 Days of Biking (April), Recovery Bike will post a bit of one of Northeast's incredible murals on Instagram @RecoveryBikeShop. Your job is to figure out where the mural is located and venture there on your bike.
Finally, join us for a finale event on April 30th at Recovery Bike Shop. The event will feature artists from the Mural Central project, snacks, and live music! |
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Lee Carlson Center for Mental Health & Well Being Fundraiser |
Lee Carlson Center is a more than 40 year old nonprofit mental health organization and essential safety net provider. Lee Carlson Center serves the Twin Cities families through therapists in 65 schools, four outpatient clinics and a drop-in center for adults experiencing severe and persistent mental illness. Join Lee Carlson Center community and supporters at Bauhaus Brew Labs to raise money and awareness for affordable mental health services. $1 from every beverage purchased goes directly into Lee Carlson Center’s programs for the community.
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My Very Own Bed's 3rd Annual Walk & Wellness Fundraising Events |
My Very Own Bed is hosting its third annual Steps for Sleep on Saturday, April 29 at DeLaSalle High School in Minneapolis. Steps for Sleep is a walk and wellness event that takes steps to build awareness about the connection between physical activity and sleep while raising funds for our work delivering new beds and Dream Kits (bedding, book, and stuffed animal) to kids throughout the Twin Cities metro.
The event includes a 1.5 mile walk (from DeLaSalle to Boom Island and back or from anywhere for those who choose to participate virtually) and a Wellness Fair, showcasing businesses and non-profit organizations that support healthy sleep and other strategies to improve our health and wellbeing. Move Minneapolis will have a table in the fair again this year! This community event is for all - and could provide a great employee wellness opportunity for you and your colleagues.
Register and sign up to fundraise here.
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Opportunities available for mspWellness Partners! |
As an employer focused initiative, mspWellness has a partnership network of over 8,000 individuals that spans across multiple industries and sectors. As we continue to expand our programming, resources, tools, and communications, our reach expands as well. Interested in joining the partnership or engaging on a deeper level? Contact Frances Huntley, mspWellness Initiative Lead & Strategic Partnership Program Manager for the Minneapolis Regional Chamber. |
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Living Well by HealthPartners |
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HealthPartners Community Living Well solution takes a tiered approach to well-being:
- Individual participants gain insights into their health status and lifestyle risk factors and are supported to make positive change through access to research-based activities and resources to meet them at their level of need.
- Employers receive strategic planning consultation, robust reporting, and program customizations to drive engagement in their population – leading to a workforce that feels cared for and supported in their well-being all while lowering health risk and increasing productivity.
- Working in collaboration among employer groups and HealthPartners broader community health and well-being themes are determined and addressed throughout the year.
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mspWellness is a program of the Minneapolis Regional Chamber designed to provide businesses with resources to create and sustain healthy work environments through wellness programs.
The Minneapolis Health Department and the Hennepin County Human Services and Public Health
Department are partners of the chamber in this effort with support from the Minnesota Department
of Health’s Statewide Health Improvement Partnership (SHIP) and Community Wellness Grant, which provides funding as a catalyst for creating healthier communities.
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