Change Yourself
- Set an example!!! Quit smoking, achieve a healthy weight, or take a walk 3 times a week. Be a leader with your actions
- Track your efforts and share your succes with as many people possible
- Use public transportation or bike to work
- Recycle
- Shop at farmers' markets
- Have regular health screenings
- Volunteer
Change Your Workplace
- Begin or expand a worksite health promotion program
- Remind employees to wash their hands with a sign or provide hand sanitizer
- Provide ample fruits and vegetables in the cafeteria
- Begin or exand an Employee Assistance Program, to help employees cope with stresses that may impact their work
- Provide free pedometers and sponsor physical activity challenges
- Encourage employee fitness breaks, as simple as a walk around the building
- Encourage employees to take the stairs instead of the elevator
- Offer blood pressure, cholesterol, and diabetes screenings at the workplace
- Provide child care assistance for employees
- Offer discount gym memberships
- Include health tips in organization newsletters
Engage Your Neighbors
- Establish community gardens on your campus of in your neighborhood
- Encourage carpooling
- Organize local stream and park clean-ups
- Lead and promote group walks in your neighborhood
- Increase availability of affordable fruits and vegetables in underserved neighborhood meetings
Advocate For Policies
- Bike lande development
- LEED (Leadership in Engery and Environmental Design) guidelines for new buildings
- Reimbursement for treating nicotine addiciton
- Reduce portion sizes in cafeteria meals
- Daily physical education in the schools for students in grades K-12
- Design developments that promote walking and biking in city planning
- Healthy food and beverage choices in public vending machines
- Safe routes to and from schools for every child
Adapted from the Alliance for the Healthiest Nation
