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Members of the Southcoast
Worksite Health & Wellness Collaborative attended a two-hour
forum held at the Fall
River YMCA on November 10, 2016. The event was an opportunity for
employers and human relations personnel to meet up and share their
wellness ideas as well as to hear about low or no-cost resources that they
could use for worksite wellness programs. The first portion of the program
featured a panel with experienced providers Kristi Aimone of Southcoast
Health and Susan Potvin of Family
Service Association, as well as James Riley, CEO of Better
Community Living. The second half featured resource providers
Annemarie Holly speaking about the Greater
Fall River Fitness Challenge, Dara Midwood talking about the YMCA
Southcoast Diabetes Prevention Program, and Shioban Torres, DrPH, MPH
of the Mass. Department of Public Health talking about the Working
on Wellness Program and the Worksite
Wellness Tax Credit. Click
here for a 40-minute 
video
of the first panel and here
for a 30-minute
video of the
second panel.
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Members of the Southcoast
Worksite Health & Wellness Collaborative enjoyed a presentation
on the upcoming American Heart Association
Walks, one at UMass-Dartmouth
on May 21st and one
in downtown Providence on June 5th. Besides being great opportunities
to get some heart-healthy exercise, the walks provide a vehicle for the
Heart Association to raise much-needed funds for research and education.
Heart Walk Director Andrea Larocque described the walks and encouraged
worksites to form teams to help raise funds. Click
here for
a 34-minute
video of
Ms. Larocque's presentation.
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Members of the Southcoast
Worksite Health & Wellness Collaborative enjoyed a presentation
on the Family Service
Association Employer Support Program by Development Director Michael
Moran on January 14, 2016. The program is an example of worksite
employee assistance programs that can help employers provide counseling
and other services to employees who are experiencing a range of
challenges. Click
here for
a 34-minute
video of
Mr. Moran's' presentation'
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Members of the Southcoast
Worksite Health & Wellness Collaborative enjoyed a presentation
on Entrepreneurship For All by
Southcoast Executive Director Shelley Cardoos at the December 10, 2015 meeting of the Collaborative. Ms.
Cardoos described the program that recruits local mentors from the
business community to work with an Entrepreneur over a twelve-month
period and provide weekly workshops, free office space, access to
technical experts and the opportunity to compete for $30,000 in cash
prizes to help launch their businesses. Click
here for
a 20-minute
video
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Members of the Southcoast
Worksite Health & Wellness Collaborative heard a presentation
by DPH Worksite Wellness Coordinator Shioban Torres, DrPH, MPH,
on November 12, 2015 covering the new Massachusetts
Wellness Tax Credit as well as the Working
on Wellness Program. The first program gives small businesses a
state tax credit for having an employee wellness program. The second
helps employers develop, implement and sustain policies and
program to create a supportive work environment to support healthy
behaviors .Click
here for
a 48-minute
video
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Members of the Southcoast
Worksite Health & Wellness Collaborative enjoyed a presentation
on the NutriSavings system that
connects employee's healthy shopping decisions with financial
incentives. Director of Business Development Paul Gilpin came to the
meeting on October 8, 2015 to describe the program and answer questions.
He explained that the company works with a large number of grocer retail
partners to enable employees with registered companies to receive cash
incentives for certain purchases. Click
here for
a 48-minute
video.
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Members of the Southcoast
Worksite Health & Wellness Collaborative enjoyed a presentation
on local farming at their meeting on June 11, 2015 held at the Sylvia
Insurance Company headquarters on Faunce Corner Road in North
Dartmouth. Scott Peet of Peets Farm in Dartmouth presented first on his
livestock farm where he raises chickens, ducks, and sheep. Averyl
Andrade of the Healthy Futures Farm in Westport then talked about a new
vegetable farm that she and her husband have just started. Click
here for a 43-minute
video
of the presentation.
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Members of the Southcoast
Worksite Health & Wellness Collaborative enjoyed a presentation
on April 9, 2015 on a new Diabetes Prevention Program that is being
offered by the YMCA Southcoast at their locations in Dartmouth, Fall
River, New Bedford and Wareham. Employees can participate in the program
on their own time after work or Director Dara Midwood is also available
to offer the program at worksites provided that a minimum number of ten
participants are signed up. Click
here for a 22-minute
video
of her presentation.
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Members of the Southcoast
Worksite Health & Wellness Collaborative enjoyed a presentation
on February 12, 2015
on the upcoming
Heart Walk that will be held on June 7, 2015 in downtown Providence,
RI. Heart Walk Director Amanda Komorek and Heart Walk Manager Alyssa
Feit described the upcoming event and the ways that worksite can get
their employees involved. She described how employers could get
their employees signed up for the event . Click
here for
a 17-minute
video
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Members of the Southcoast
Worksite Health & Wellness Collaborative enjoyed a presentation
on Stress and Happiness by Eileen Crochiere of the Taunton-based EAP
Network at the January 8, 2015 meeting of the Collaborative. Ms.
Crochiere covered the many lifestyle factors that can increase or reduce
stress and the importance of maintaining a positive attitude that can
promote happiness. Click
here for
a 34-minute
video of
her presentation
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Members of the Southcoast
Worksite Health & Wellness Collaborative enjoyed a presentation
on the prevention of influenza infection for employers at the November 13,
2014. "The flu season has started," stated Saint
Anne's Hospital Infection Control Coordinator Theresa Moss, RN, who recommended that businesses go to the Center
for Disease Control and Prevention web site for up-to-date information
on preventing influenza infection for businesses. Click here for
a two-minute
video of
Ms.Moss' presentation |
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Greater
Fall River Partners for a Healthier Community, Inc.
sponsored a day-long Work@Health
training for a small number of local wellness personnel on September 24,
2014. Partners Worksite Wellness Coordinator Angela Bras provided a Work@Health
training for a
small number of local employers who will assist local worksites with creating or expanding worksite
wellness programs. Click here for a
nine-minute
video of the
introduction to the training. |
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Members of the Collaborative
were offered presentations at the September 11, 2014 meeting by
Lillian Nieves, Pharm. D., Diabetes Educator for Novo
Nordisk, Inc. who described her availability to talk with employees
about management of diabetes. Lu Brito of the Southcoast
YMCA then described a Diabetes
Prevention Program that is available to employers in the South Coast
Area. Click here
for an 11-minute
video of
Ms. Nieves' presentation and click
here for a nine-minute video of Mr. Brito's presentation. |
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Employees at Blount Fine Foods in the Fall River Industrial Park were invited to the
second Health and Well Being Fair held at the facility on August
22, 2014. Organized by Benefits/Human Resource Manager Michelle Cabral, the event offered employees the opportunity to have their blood pressure and cholesterol checked
by a staff member of Southcoast
Health as well as to get up-to-date information from
representatives of the Fall River YMCA.
Click here for a two-minute video. |
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Members of the Southcoast
Worksite Health & Wellness Collaborative were introduced to Jason
Colberg, DPT, CEAS, and Josh Clare, DPT, CSCS of PT
Health and Safety Solutions at the June 12, 2014 meeting of the
Collaborative held at Family Service
Association in Fall River. Their business specializes in personal health evaluation and
education to give consumers the tools to prevent both acute injury as well
as chronic disease. Click here for a
video of
parts of this meeting |
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Members of the Fall River Rotary Club heard a presentation on September 5, 2013 by Partners Worksite Wellness Coordinator Angela Bras on the employer impact of the Affordable Care Act.
Ms. Bras talked about delay in implementation of the employer mandate in the Act as the perfect the opportunity for employers to offer smoking cessation and participation in the upcoming Greater Fall River Fitness Challenge to their employees as a way of improving their health profile. Click here for a four-minute
video of the event. |
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The Center for
the Promotion of Health
in the New England Workplace (CPH-NEW) at UMass-Lowell presented the major findings
of a study of obesity and the workplace on
November 13, 2012 at the SEIU Local 888
headquarters in Boston. Partners
Worksite Wellness Coordinator Angela Braz participated in the
conference along with Healthy
City Fall River Coordinator David Weed. Click here for
27-minute
video of the conference.
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Employees at
Philips Lightolier, a Fall River
lighting company in the Airport Industrial Park with over 600 employees,
participated in its fourth annual company-wide health fair
held on October 6, 2011 in the company cafeteria. Workers could get their blood pressure
and cholesterol checked by Southcoast
Hospital staff or get information from Saint
Anne's Hospital or twenty community health organizations in the
Greater Fall River area. Click
here to see a short
video of the event. |
