The 5th Annual Prevention & Well-Being Congress

Employers are looking for new and innovative ways to address the overall health, happiness and well-being of their employees. The link between happiness and well-being and improved job performance, health status and health care costs has been well documented. Creating a culture of mindfulness and helping employees to master mindfulness techniques also increases the engagement with and effectiveness of other health improvement programs like weight loss, stress management, and nutrition and exercise. Join Tricia Simmons and Amanda Goltz as they discuss innovative mindfulness solutions and incorporating mindfulness training in your benefits programs.

• Understand the role that mindfulness has in the workplace, and how to create a commitment to a culture of wellbeing
• Evaluate the scientific evidence for mindfulness and how it impacts the individual, the community at work, and the healthy aspects of life at home
• Explore innovative and groundbreaking solutions in the mindfulness and wellbeing space, and some ways to evaluate them
• Review the results of a mindfulness program for both stress and managing metabolic syndrome

Learn about Geisinger Health System’s current and five year strategic plan, including steps of development, implementation and initial ROI of an award winning wellness program. The program includes traditional and non-traditional programming to meet the needs of the over 21,000 employees, include spouses and domestic partners and includes a benefit based population health strategy with an overall participation rate of over 70% in its third year. Exploring new partnerships and integrations has assisted the Geisinger Wellness program to implement unique collaborations and programs. These have led to enhanced engagement, positive impact on health and wellness and the continued awareness of personal wellness. Programs presented, including initial results will be:

• Lower back initiative with occupational medicine
• Occupational medicine, telemedicine and telehealth — Transitions to care and coaching
• Wellness coaching strategy, including targeted strategies for unique populations

Imagine if all employers viewed mental health with the same gravity as physical health? According to the APA, mood disorders account for more than $50 billion per year in lost productivity. This averages to 321.2 million lost workdays annually. The drop in productivity due to presenteeism is roughly 7.5 times greater than productivity lost due to absenteeism, indicating that even when employees come to work their productivity is impaired. While treatment for mood disorders helps to isolate a problem and save money, it can also help to reduce the risk of chronic diseases for employees. Studies have shown that depression, in particular, is a risk factor for cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and other costly illnesses. Providing online mental health screenings to employees is the first step to evening the playing field and remaining relevant in an evolving world. Digital technology is transforming how we operate in our daily lives and expanding the ways treatment can be delivered. Results of an independent study revealed that online screening is effective in connecting people at risk of depression with treatment resources

• Describe comorbidity between mental and physical health issues
• Articulate how an online screening program enhances current wellness services
• Examine ways that an online screening program can be used to meet the needs and goals of employers
• Share other innovative ways technology can and will impact wellness services moving forward

Noted prevention expert John Clymer will identify “slam dunks” to reduce illness and injury. It’s an evidence-based game plan to prevent disease, increase wellness, and control spending on treating poor health.

• Learn proven ways to reduce risk factors for chronic disease
• Identify sources of evidence-based strategies to improve health
• Take away health-improving policies and systems changes you can implement now
• Learn low-cost/high impact prevention programs, policies and services

Employers are looking for new and innovative ways to address the overall health, happiness and well-being of their employees. The link between happiness and well-being and improved job performance, health status and health care costs has been well documented. Join Dr. Rebecca Kelly, international author, consultant and leader of health and well-being initiatives as she describes the impact of happiness and well-being programs.

• Understand the role that mindfulness has in the health, happiness and well-being in the workplace
• Explore the five key principles of living happy in the workplace
• Determine the key techniques and training elements related to happiness and well-being
• Review the results of a workplace health and happiness campaign

Millennials already make up nearly 20% of all workers in the United States and they are the fastest growing sector. Additionally, for the first time in history, there are four very distinct generations comprising our workforce and the way in which they respond to technology, education and their own health is vastly different. This presentation will highlight the defining characteristics of each generation, show you why this is significance of the issue, present data to support generational complexities as an important health promotion issue and give you concrete strategies to engage a multi-generational population in your health promotion efforts.

• Identify the defining characteristics of each generation and why they are important to health promotion concepts
• Leverage resources to create a new wellness initiative that uses delivery methods members of all generations will be motivated to engage with
• Discuss the results

Individuals are being asked to stretch their paychecks more than ever before. Now, employees must decide how much to allocate to their retirement and other savings accounts, how to pay for medical and other insurance, how to pay down their debt, and still have enough to spend on day-to-day living expenses.

This presentation will discuss the efforts conducted by the NFL Players Association to achieve financial wellness for active and former NFL Players. NFL Players are a highly compensated group of individuals who achieve wealth early in their lives. This sudden wealth poses a litany of problems for the players as these individuals typically are at the peak of their earning capacity at a very early stage of life. It is essential that they save aggressively to build wealth and achieve financial independence. Learn about the demographics of an NFL player, challenges of working with them, financial wellness for the newly minted and the resources available to players, including:

• Provide planners with the techniques, methods and ideology the NFLPA used to move NFL Players from young, inexperienced rich men to self-aware, educated, and financially independent men

National Instruments and the State of Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) have a common goal: achieving employee health through a culture of wellness. Yet, each organization has to work with a large difference in budgets to achieve their goals. The TxDOT began as a grassroots program in one location, but through partnerships and changes in culture grew to reach and engage 12,000 employees statewide. National Instruments was able to leverage an underutilized fitness-only program to develop recreation programs, competitive teams that gave way to a comprehensive wellness program targeting behavior change programs, annual screenings and a tobacco free campus. Wellness leaders will share their experiences on how to:

• Develop the four components of a successful wellness program
• Utilize free tools to measure program effectiveness and environment awareness
• Give examples of low cost or free program offerings
• Consider factors to consider when developing and building successful partnerships
• Build high risk targeted behavior change programs (HEED, Fit Camp)
• Offer wellbeing programming at all levels programming, Cap10k journey + Cycling event
• Understand why building a wellness committee and specific program committees is essential to engagement and success