CIS HEALTHY BENEFITS RIDE THE WAVE OF THE FUTURE! Heather Matthews, CIS Wellness Benefits Rep. Sara Puddy, HR & Admin. Coordinator, Madras

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1 CIS HEALTHY BENEFITS RIDE THE WAVE OF THE FUTURE! Heather Matthews, CIS Wellness Benefits Rep. Sara Puddy, HR & Admin. Coordinator, Madras

2 Objectives Review CIS Healthy Benefits history & 2016 Healthy Benefits program. Learn how effective strategies to get employees to engage in your wellness programs. Understand the various strategies needed to maximize participation. Review case studies of this process in action.

3 CIS Healthy Benefits: History

4 What has history taught us? Health Risks Unhealthy Behaviors Employeerelated health cost Chronic Disease

5 What s the solution? Effective marketing Benefitsbased incentives Small incentives swag Participation and Engagement Leadership support Wellness Committee Communication channels

6 Incentives? Use incentives, but don't make a big deal of them. Make a big deal out of the health benefits. Make sure your employees know what all the benefits are. Give them a what's in it for me?" list.

7 What are we talking about?

8 Motivation in motion Make the right choice easy and the wrong choice hard. Make healthy food more accessible. Provide a flexible work schedule, time for exercise. Support from management. Encourage wellness participation through a variety of different activities. People move toward pleasure and away from pain.

9 Three Steps to Boosting Participation Create compelling copy (written words) Offer something of value Include a call to action (what you want the person to do)

10 Creating Solutions to Problems What are your employees problems? Poor health Weight gain High health risks High health care costs Reduced productivity Maybe they don t have a problem?

11 Mindset It s not what YOU want; it s what your employees want. Think like an employee.

12 Offer Something of Value (solutions) What is your value proposition? Better health, lower weight, tastier food, fewer medications, less stress, etc. Financial incentive. Happiness. Hope.

13 Collateral (marketing) Materials Message should resonate with employees. Communicate in multiple ways and multiple times. , printed materials, newsletters, website, posters, table top tents, meeting announcements, staff meetings. Include SPOUSES.

14 What we ve learned High participation needed for statistically significant results The middle man doesn t have much influence People change on their own timetable, not ours Claims are perhaps the best measure of ROI

15 Healthy Benefits Today CARRIER PARTNERSHIPS TOBACCO CESSATION WEIGHT MANAGEMENT WELLNESS GRANTS, TRAINING WORKSITE SCREENINGS EVERY 2-3 YEARS MDLIVE ADDED PROGRAMS, RESOURCES FOR EMPLOYERS, EMPLOYEES

16 CIS Wellness Grants and Case Study 2016 Wellness Grant Applications are available on under the CIS Benefits tab. Revised based upon best practices and WELCOA guidelines for wellness grants. City of Madras, Sara Puddy, to introduce their new policy structure and why employees loved it.

17 City of Madras Wellness Program Before you draft your program: Adopt a policy. Do your program research. Gain employee input. Determine the program budget.

18 Program Elements $250/employee for FY Reimbursement based on eligible expenses Wellness/fitness activities & gear Fringe benefit & taxable. Other health-related events such as wellness/ health fairs, lunch & learns, agency fitness challenges, etc. KEEP IT FLEXIBLE, KEEP IT SIMPLE, KEEP IT FUN!

19 Program Participation More than $2,200 investment in employee wellness as of December % employee wellness reimbursement participation. More than 50% employee participation in agency-sponsored events this year.

20 RBH Wellness Program GET MORE OUT OF YOUR LIFE Reliant Behavioral Health (RBH) and CIS are excited to announce an improved Wellness program for CIS members.

21 WellWorks For You PERSONAL ONLINE WELLNESS PORTAL Wellness challenges. Interactive nutrition & fitness planner. Syncing of tracking & reporting devices, such as Fitbit. Weekly recipes & grocery lists.

22 WellWorks For You

23 Summary Wellness activities will only produce positive outcomes if there is participation and engagement. Maximizing engagement requires a multipronged strategy. Effective marketing and communications make a big difference.

24 QUESTIONS? CONTACT INFO: Heather Matthews CIS Benefits Sarah Puddy City of Madras