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WWTC Process

Want to know how Worksite Wellness for Tompkins County (WWTC) works? Here's a typical outline of the process...

1. The Heart Check survey is completed at the start of the program. This establishes a baseline for wellness programs at your worksite. The survey will be completed again 18-24 months later.
2. Designate an employee coordinator. This person will work with TCHD staff to follow through the program.
   • Time commitment for the coordinator can usually be kept to an hour a week (maybe a bit more at start-up, less as the program settles in.)
3. Form a wellness committee. This group oversees (and/or impliments) the worksite's WWTC program.
• The coordinator is in charge of recruiting the wellness committee.
• The wellness committee should plan to hold monthly meetings for the first 6-9 months. At minimum, 4 meetings should be held in a 6-month period.
• Time commitment can usually be kept under 2 hours per month (average per committee member.)
4. Plan a worksite-wide survey of employees to assess current awareness of basic wellness issues, and what ideas and activities people may be interested in.
• The wellness committee will develop the employee survey, and decide how to distribute it.
• To see a sample survey go to
  http://www.tompkins-co.org/wellness/worksite/workwell/empleesurvy.html. (Feel free to use these questions as-is or adapt them to your needs.)
5. Set at 3-4 environmentally based worksite wellness objectives. At least one of these should address nutrition and and one physical activity.
   • The wellness committee will determine the wellness objectives, using the employee survey results as a guide.

The program will proceed from there. A TCHD staff member will attend meetings of the full wellness committee for at least the first 6 (+/-) months.