Celebrate Active Transportation on World Car-Free Day September 22nd! |
Replacing drive-alone car trips with active transportation and transit can benefit not only physical wellness, but mental and financial wellness too. World Car-Free Day celebrates, creates awareness of, and educates communities about alternatives to driving alone. Launched in Spain in 1996, World Car-Free Day is observed in 1,500 cities and more than 40 countries and encourages people to try going 24-hours without driving alone.
Light refreshments will be provided by Move Minnesota and Move Minneapolis.
Beverages will be available to purchase from Dual Citizen - cash is NOT accepted.
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Each month, we’re highlighting one of the 2022 mspWellness Champions. Champions are organizations that create, implement, and promote wellness programs as part of their organizational culture, and meet the criteria defined by the Hennepin County and City of Minneapolis Departments of Health and the Minneapolis Regional Chamber. The Champion designation program was created to recognize and celebrate organizations who work to positively affect the health and well-being of their employees and communities. To learn more about the Champion designation program, click here.
At Touchstone Mental Health, staff self-care is extremely important to the mission, which is to provide innovative, person-centered services that foster hope, health and well-being.
That’s why the staff at Touchstone Mental Health celebrated Self-Care Month through February 2022. Weekly themes included building casual connections, building close connections, connecting with community, finding support and help, and they were sourced from the MN Department of Health's #StayConnectedMN campaign. The wellness and development committee hosted fun events for staff, and provided resources for planning for retirement and on developing and maintaining self-care plans that promote resiliency and wellness.
Staff well-being is essential, and the work of the staff wellness and development committee in highlighting self-care in February is one important step in the organization’s overall efforts to prioritize resiliency and wellness at Touchstone.
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Midwest Health Promotion Conference |
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Wednesday, October 12
St. Paul River Centre
“Surviving to Thriving: Re-energizing Wellbeing”
What is the Midwest Health Promotion Conference?
The annual Midwest Health Promotion Conference hosts professionals, students, and volunteers responsible for employee health and wellbeing to network, share ideas, and discover solutions to today’s challenges. You will have the opportunity to connect with peers. People who you can relate to, learn from, and actively contribute to the best thinking in worksite health promotion.
Meet people passionate about wellness
This day-long conference attracts large and small businesses, municipalities, brokerages, government offices, schools, hospitals and health care organizations. Participants tend to be those responsible for employee health and wellbeing, including human resources personnel, health educators, wellness managers, exercise physiologists, dietitians, safety professionals, benefits consultants, occupational health nurses, personal trainers, and wellness committee volunteers.
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Get your COVID-19 Vaccine Booster! |
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People age 12 and older are now eligible for updated (bivalent) COVID-19 boosters! Updated COVID-19 boosters can both help restore protection that has decreased since previous vaccination and provide broader protection against newer variants.
Click here to learn more. |
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As your HR leaders are finalizing plans for 2023 benefits don’t forget to include time to learn about Community Living Well with mspWellness!
As employers you pay the expense of rising health care costs, many of which are preventable. As a partnership, we are focused on some of the top cost drivers we all share, working to improve mental health, reduce musculoskeletal issues, and prevent heart disease and diabetes. Running concurrent campaigns across multiple organizations amplifies the reach and impact as opposed to operating independently.
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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The mspWellness program is adding another opportunity for employers, human resource professionals, worksite wellness coordinators and the wellness-curious! An online resource hub that includes educational materials, events, implementation tools and more.
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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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