The document provides information about the Kentucky Department for Public Health's (KDPH) worksite wellness program and pilot. The goals of the program are to identify strategies to serve as a model for evidence-based wellness programs and support employers' implementation. The pilot assessed KDPH employees, found areas for improvement like nutrition and stress management, and developed an action plan. The plan focuses on building community, leadership support, and communication. It recommends activities and tracks objectives and metrics. The pilot aims to create a model for improving employee well-being across multiple levels.

1. KDPH
Worksite Wellness
Update
Kentucky Public Health Association
April 2014

2. KDPH Worksite Wellness
Goals
• Identify strategies
• Serve as a model
• Create models
• Support employers to implement evidence-based wellness
programs

3. Recipe for a
Healthy Kentucky
• Convene a network of wellness leaders
• Listen to those you want to impact
• Build upon a foundation of evidence-based interventions
• Develop an action plan based on:
o what you heard from target audience
o Improvement to population health at multiple levels
o through policy and environmental change
• Implement plan with strong leadership
• Document outcomes - successes and lessons learned

4. Healthy Communities
ACHIEVE MODEL

5. DPH Wellness Program
Pilot
• Launched on
• Purpose
• Goals?
• Test site for Kentucky State of Wellness Pilot
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6. DPH Wellness
Assessments
Biometric Screening,
CDC Health Score Card,
KEHP Claims Data,
Need & Interest Survey,
Wellness Committee Input

7. CDC Worksite Health
ScoreCard
KDPH received a score of 93 out of 209 possible
points
Our Areas of Largest Deficiency:
o Nutrition
o Physical Activity
o Weight Management
o Stress Management and Depression
o Organizational Support

8. Preventive Care Screening
(KEHP)
Cervical Cancer
Mammograms
Colon Cancer
Cholesterol
PSA
Well Child
Less than 50% of
KEHP members
take advantage of
all recommended
screenings.
Source: 2012 KEHP’s claims data aggregated by Truven.
13th Annual Report for Kentucky Group Health Insurance Board.

9. Top Cited Limitations
Source: KDPH Employee Needs & Interests Survey, 1/24/2014.
TIME MONEY
JOINT/BACK PAIN
$

10. Suggestions from
Wellness Committee
Building a Sense of Community
o Share meals
o Structured 10am/2pm walking times (come if you’re free!)
o Establish interest groups and group classes
o Create competition between Divisions and/or Branches
Support/Respect from Management and Coworkers
o Paradigm Shift: “wellness breaks” viewed as positive for productivity and encouraged
o Incorporate Wellness Committee responsibilities into job descriptions
o Hold sponsored challenges (walking, miles, steps) or walking/standing meetings
o Address tobacco policy
o Offer on-site physical activity opportunities
Strong Communication
o Add wellness to new employee orientation/checklist
o Wellness emails with tips, recipes, events, and recognition
o Post visual messages and cues to action around building (stairs, elevators,
bathrooms)
o Communicate wellness announcements in staff meetings

11. DPH Wellness
Action Plan
Social-Ecological Model
• Individual
• Social
• Policy/organizational
• Environmental
Elements of Well-Being
• Career
• Social
• Financial
• Physical
• Community
Wellness Committee Input
• Building a Sense of
Community
• Leadership Support
• Strong Communication
Consider Reality
• Cost
• Time
• Commitment
• Importance
• Reach

12. Action Planning Worksheet
KENTUCKY DEPARTMENT FOR PUBLIC HEALTH WORKSITE WELLNESS PILOT
GOAL: Improve the wellness of DPH employees (includes all 5 essential elements of wellbeing: career, social, community, financial, and physical).
STRATEGIC APPROACH: In order to reach this goal, the DPH Wellness Committee identified three elements that intersect with the objectives and helped
prioritize the recommended activities: building a sense of community, gaining support and respect from management, and focusing on strong communication.
Short-term Objective:
INDIVIDUAL LEVEL
Short-term Objective:
INDIVIDUAL LEVEL
Short-term Objective:
SOCIAL LEVEL
Increase the percentage of DPH
employees who plan to participate
in the DPH Wellness Program.
Increase the percentage of DPH
employees who know about the
opportunities with the DPH Wellness
Program.
Increase the number of opportunities
for employees to participate in
community building/social activities.
intentions
[DPH needs/interest survey]
knowledge
[DPH needs/interest survey]
social support
RECOMMENDED ACTIVITIES
*many activities will address multiple determinants, but are only listed once*
1. Coordinate with Tobacco Policy
Committee to arrange for signage
promoting current tobacco policy
and designated areas
2. Promote cue-to-action signs at
stairwells
1. Develop an e-mail newsletter in
conjunction with CHFS Focus that
has wellness tips and upcoming
events
2. Develop a Wellness Seminar
Series during the lunch hour that
offers a variety of classes/talks
(nutrition, physical activity, stress
management, financial planning)
1. Offer dyna band gentle exercise
courses
2. Host Public Health Week (April 7-13) as
a morale boosting event for DPH all
3. Identify and promote existing interest
groups
4. Encourage team challenges (by branch
and/or division)
5. Promote the use and participation in
the on-site community garden

13. Action Planning Worksheet
KENTUCKY DEPARTMENT FOR PUBLIC HEALTH WORKSITE WELLNESS PILOT
GOAL: Improve the wellness of DPH employees (includes all 5 essential elements of wellbeing: career, social, community, financial, and physical).
STRATEGIC APPROACH: In order to reach this goal, the DPH Wellness Committee identified three elements that intersect with the objectives and helped
prioritize the recommended activities: building a sense of community, gaining support and respect from management, and focusing on strong communication.
RECOMMENDED ACTIVITIES
*many activities will address multiple determinants, but are only listed once*
Short-term Objective:
GOV/ORGANIZATIONAL LEVEL
Short-term Objective:
ENVIRONMENTAL LEVEL
Increase the visible support for the DPH Wellness
Program from leadership.
Increase access to a healthy environment on-site for all
DPH employees.
organizational support & policy
[# of mtgs attended, endorsements/promotion by surpervisors]
physical environment & policy
1. Host a Walk with Secretary Haynes and/or a Walk
with Commissioner Mayfield
2. Work with management to revise the KPHA
attendance policy so that employees can obtain
professional development and are encouraged to
network
3. Clarify and promote the flex time policy so
employees are encouraged to take wellness breaks
and supported by supervisors to do so
1. Promote the on-site clinic and services/programs
offered to all state gov employees (including
Humana Health Coaching)
2. Promote the Healthy Meeting Policy
3. Incorporate Better Bites nutrition labeling into the
cafeteria and vending areas
4. Establish discounted gym memberships
5. Work with a massage therapy school to make on-site
massages available (for a fee)

14. Next Steps
KDPH Wellness Committee recommendation have
been sent to leadership for approval and next we
will develop the Implementation Steps to complete
the Action Plan

15. “It’s hard not to start things right now!
I understand it is a process, but it will
be nice to see something of great
visibility that is implemented
soon…something exciting.”
─Wellness Committee Member

16. “I’m inspired because I see the
support from the Commissioners”
-Wellness Committee Member

17. Coming Soon!
Better Bites Menu Labeling is
coming to CHFS Cafeteria

18. A Better Bites entrée must
contain 2 or more items
below. A Better Bites side
(soup, salad, bread, dessert,
etc.) must contain one or
more of the items below:
• ½ cup fruit
• ½ cup vegetables (not
fried)
• 1 serving whole grain (1
slice bread or ½ cooked
grain)
• 2 ounces lean meat or ½
cup beans or ¼ cup nuts
or seeds or 1 egg or ¼
cup tofu
• Low fat dairy (1/2 cup or
1 ounce cheese)
Nutrition Guidelines for Better Bites: Restaurant Edition

19. Questions for you
• Personal: What challenges do you face when you are trying to
incorporate healthy behaviors in your daily routine? What helps
you to be more successful?
• Organization: Does your organization have a wellness program
in place? How does your organization’s program support
healthy lifestyle/health behaviors? Or what would you like to
see?
• Community: What is the role of the Local Health Department in
helping local businesses initiate or support wellness programs?
What type of training, tools and resources does the LHD need to
assist businesses?

20. Kentucky Department for Public Health (KDPH)
Employer Worksite Wellness Program
Provides technical assistance, support, and resources for
employers since 2006
Advisory Board
Assessment of current program practices (Funded WKU to
conduct the survey)
Deveolpment of revised tools
Local recognition program for employers
Web site /http://kentucky.stateofwellness.org
Creation of a state plan
Pilot project at the KDPH/Barren River Area

21. Kentucky State of Wellness Pilot Goals
Overall :
To develop a strategy incorporating multimedia tools and
support to assist employers to implement effective
comprehensive wellness programs that align the health and
safety goals of the organization to improve employee health
and well-being.

22. State of Wellness Pilot
• Lessons learned and tools created or identified from
the DPH pilot will be used in this pilot
• Partnership with the Barren River Health Department
• In recruitment phase with start in May
• Consists of six worksites (including KDPH test)
• One worksite in the 500-1000, Two in 250-499, One in
100 – 249, and Two in 25 -99 in a variety of sectors

23. Design
cont.
• Resources and tools used will be based on the new CDC
worksite tools
• Involves on-site and on-line approach
• Conduct follow-up and evaluation
• Develop a model for other areas and regions
• http://kentucky.stateofwellness.org

24. State of Wellness Pilot Goals
• Identify the best strategy to train and provide technical
assistance to employers
• Determine how to use the CDC worksite wellness tools in
Kentucky worksites
• Assess the effectiveness of adoption of the CDC materials
in worksites
• Create a model based on pilot outcomes
• Develop a state-wide dissemination plan
• Implement the model in districts and regions
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25. http://kentucky.stateofwellness.org

26. kyhealthnow 2019 Goals
● Reduce Kentucky’s rate of uninsured individuals to less
than 5%.
● Reduce Kentucky’s smoking rate by 10%.
● Reduce the rate of obesity among Kentuckians by 10%.
● Reduce Kentucky cancer deaths by 10%.
● Reduce cardiovascular deaths by 10%.
● Reduce the percentage of children with untreated dental
decay by 25% and increase adult dental visits by 10%.
● Reduce deaths from drug overdose by 25% and reduce by
25% the average number of poor mental health days of
Kentuckians.
● All can be addressed through worksite

27. Teresa Lovely MS, CHES
Business Coordinator-Worksite Wellness
Teresa.Lovely@ky.gov
Elaine Russell MS, RD
Obesity Prevention Program Coordinator
Elaine.Russell@ky.gov