Toolkits

Toolkits are timesaving aids that provide customizable turn-key solutions to help program planners plan, implement, and evaluate a specific health promotion intervention. Before implementing any of these interventions, the toolkits should be selected and evaluated based on the identified needs of your employee population.

 

This section contains toolkits developed by Healthier Worksite Initiative (HWI), designated with , and toolkits available from other sources. The toolkits are divided into the four pillars of the President's HealthierUS Executive Order and a general category:

• General Workforce Health Promotion
• Nutritious Eating
• Physical Activity
• Preventive Health Screenings
• Healthy Choices

We also have guidance on how to use and adapt HWI toolkits for your work place.

General Workforce Health Promotion

General Workforce Health Promotion Toolkits
This section contains toolkits from CDC or other sources that address overall program design and planning for health promotion programs in the work place.

Personal Empowerment Plan
Personal Empowerment Plan (PEP) is a 12-week self-directed, work site program to promote healthy eating and moderate physical activity. The program materials include workbooks for healthy eating and physical activity targeting employees based on their motivational readiness to change. A coordinator's kit, promotional brochures, and posters are also included in the program.

Nutritious Eating

The following toolkits address reducing barriers and increasing access to foods needed to help employees make healthier food choices in the work place.

Garden Market
Help your employees increase their fruit and vegetable intake. Learn how to create a fresh produce market at your work site.

Other Nutritious Eating Toolkits
This section contains toolkits from CDC or other sources that are specific to promoting nutritious eating in the work place.

Physical Activity

The following toolkits address reducing barriers and increasing access to places for physical activity in the work place.

Steps to Wellness
This guide provides employers interested in creating or expanding their wellness programs with easy and understandable steps on how to increase the physical activity of employees in the workplace.

Discount Fitness Club Network
Discover how to increase your employees' access to places for physical activity outside of the work place by identifying and establishing a relationship with a nationwide discount fitness club network.

StairWELL
Find out steps you can take to encourage your employees to take the stairs and increase their physical activity while at work.

Walkability
Use this walkability audit tool to determine how safe and attractive the walking environment is at your work site.

Other Physical Activity Toolkits
This section contains toolkits available from CDC or other sources that are specific to increasing physical activity in the work place.

Preventive Health Screenings

The following toolkits address how employers can help employees obtain preventive health services by offering screening programs in the work place.

Mental Health Screenings
Look here for information about offering work place mental health screenings on health topics such as depression, bipolar disorder, generalized anxiety disorder, and post-traumatic stress disorder.

Other Preventive Health Screenings Toolkits
This section contains toolkits available from CDC or other sources that are specific to preventive health screenings in the work place.

Healthy Choices

The following toolkits address how employers can help employees understand their risks for disease and make healthy lifestyle choices by offering programs at the work place.

Lactation Support Program
This toolkit is designed to help employers set up a comprehensive lactation support program for nursing mothers at the work site.

Implementing a Tobacco-Free Campus Initiative in Your Workplace
This toolkit provides guidance for implementing a tobacco-free campus initiative that includes a policy and comprehensive cessation services for employees.

Other Healthy Choices Toolkits
This section contains toolkits available from CDC or other sources that are specific to healthy choices, such as stress reduction and smoking and tobacco cessation, in the work place.

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