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Did You Know

  1. 40% of Americans are obese or extremely obese.
  2. Obesity issues added $147 billion in health care costs in recent years.
  3. Half of Americans are projected to be obese by 2030.
  4. In New Jersey, 80% of employees work for small companies (less than 100 employees)

Workforce Wellness

Workforce Wellness responds to the needs of local, county, and small business to deliver evidence-based information to empower employees to maintain a healthy lifestyle. The health and wellness of employees has a direct effect on employers and their business. A healthy workforce is a productive workforce and is vital to a healthy community.

Employer Resources

  1. Why Workforce Wellness? (YouTube video)
  2. Policy, Systems and Environment Impacts (94k PDF)
  3. Create a Culture of Wellness (YouTube video)
  4. SMART Goals Toolkit (MOV video file)
  5. Assess Interest (YouTube video)

FCHS offers flexible program delivery options:

  1. 12-Week Program
  2. 24-Week Program

Program can be customized to your needs.

To find out more about this program, please contact njworkforce@njaes.rutgers.edu.

Employee

Employee Resources

  1. Healthy on the Job Newsletter: Nine Healthy Practices (188k PDF)
  2. Healthy on the Job: Self-Care (396k PDF)
  3. Lunch and Learn Webinars: Food and Mood (YouTube video)
  4. Sample Healthy at Home newsletter: What is a Family Meal? (494k PDF)
  5. Live Well-Stay Healthy Wellness Texts
    - receive gentle wellness text message nudges with delivery on Wednesday and Saturday each week.
    1. You can sign up with or without the app, at any time using the free Remind App or directly through Remind.com
    2. Just go to the App Store online and look for "Remind", where you'll upload the app to your phone
    3. Then to join Live Well-Stay Healthy; use the following access code
      Class Name: Live Well-Stay Healthy
      Class Code: @f3ccc46
    4. screen capture of a sample message Example message

Is your goal to live longer, healthier lives by:

  1. Stay healthy while you are at work.
  2. Increasing awareness of the effect of healthy eating habits, physical activity, and stress reduction.
  3. Make healthy lifestyle choices through nutrition and physical activity.

Do you want to:

  1. Increase consumption of fruits & vegetables
  2. Increase levels of physical activity
  3. Increase food label reading habits
  4. Improve quality of sleep
  5. Decrease consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages
  6. Decrease levels of stress

Improve your skills to:

  1. Making better food choices
  2. Dealing with Stress
  3. Self-Care strategies  
  4. Increase physical activity
  5. Maintain healthy behaviors

To find out more about this program, please contact njworkforce@njaes.rutgers.edu.


Workplace Wellness Committees

As a Workplace Wellness Committee, you are dedicated to policy, systems, and environmental changes in your work place to make healthy eating and physical activity the norm among the employees.

Here you can learn about other wellness committees and how they have met their challenges and share your experience with making a healthy workplace the norm.

Topics include:

  1. How to Start Your Workplace Wellness Committee
  2. Completing a needs assessments
  3. Determine priorities for committee
  4. Additional resources such as:

Webinars, fact sheets, toolkits and videos your committee can use to help implement a healthy workplace.

Wellness Resources

  1. How to create a wellness committee (YouTube video)
  2. No/Low cost Resources (MOV video file)
  3. Publications:
  1. Impacts

Learn about all the great resources we have available for your team to get started.



  1. Webinars
  2. FCHS Recipes
  3. Social Media
  4. Publications
  5. Visions Newsletter
  6. Our Impact