Free Wellness Programs and Resources
The free wellness program resources listed below help improve employee health. These tools help create worksites that support and improve the health and productivity of employees.
- Employer benefits can include: enhanced employee productivity, lower health care costs, decreased rates of illness and injuries, reduced employee absenteeism, and improved employee morale.
- Benefits for employees can include: less stress, improved well-being, self-image, and self-esteem, improved physical fitness, more stamina, weight loss, and improved health.
Free Worksite Wellness Toolkit
The Worksite Wellness Toolkit provides resources to create a healthier work environment. It includes fact sheets, guidelines for change, and health and wellness information. All materials can be downloaded, copied and reproduced.
- Free Worksite Wellness Toolkit - In-depth information about getting started, developing a wellness committee, and implementation details for dozens of strategies.
- How to Promote Your Wellness Program
- How to Start a Wellness Team
- Employee Wellness Survey I
- Employee Wellness Survey II
- Employee Wellness Interest Survey II
- Model Wellness Programs - The Whole Person Wellness Model (wheel)
- Wellness Skills and Interest Survey
- Workshop Options
Motivate to Move Wellness Program
- Motivate to Move - Coordinator's Manual
- Motivate to Move - Training
- Motivate to Move - Data Entry and Final Report - Excel
- Motivate to Move - Data Entry and Final Report - Sample
- Motivate to Move - Data Entry and Motivate to Move - Final Report - Word
- Motivate to Move - Instructions for Data Entry Forms
- Motivate to Move - Sample Letter to Management
Free Wellness Programs: Miscellaneous Resources
- Take The Stairs Poster and Prompts: Two sets of motivational posters to be placed near building elevators designed to motivate employees to use the stairs. Remember that the stair are a fast and simple way to be more physically active. (Take The Stairs Poster - Set 1 | Take The Stairs Posters - Set 2)
- Guidelines for Offering Healthy Foods at Meetings, Seminars, and Catered Events from the University of Minnesota School of Public Health
- What Works in Worksites, developed by the Wisconsin Nutrition and Physical Activity Program, identifies policies and strategies that can help worksites create healthier environments for their employees.
- Fruit and Veggie Cooking in Quantity Cookbook and Other Healthy Recipes
- Free Health Promotion Newsletters Short (2 page) employee health promotion newsletters designed to be distributed to employees and others as hard copies and / or via email.
- Healthy Meetings and Healthy Events
- Start a Walking Club at Your Worksite outlines simple steps.
Free Wellness Programs: Sources
Our thanks go to the organizations that provided the free wellness programs found here. Following is a partial listing of the organizations that provided these free wellness programs: