Partnership Perk: GetActive Wellness Toolkit

Greater Des Moines Partnership wants to help you get a jump start on your New Year’s resolutions with the new GetActive Wellness Toolkit, aimed at helping local small businesses provide turn-key wellness programming for their employees.

A Resource for Small Businesses

The GetActive Wellness Toolkit was inspired by the Greater Des Moines (DSM) business community’s support of making Iowa the healthiest state in the nation. A Capital Crossroads survey conducted in 2013 revealed that many small business owners like the idea of helping their employees remain healthy, but don’t have enough time, expertise or resources to implement a program. The GetActive Wellness Toolkit seeks to remove those barriers by arming small businesses with “plug-and- play” content to help them implement a wellness program within their offices. The program is a benefit of membership to one of the Partnership’s 23 Affiliate Chambers of Commerce in the region, and is available to them at no additional cost.

Each month, Chamber Member businesses may download a new one-page poster and handout that provides wellness tips, facts and resources to give employees immediate takeaways that they can implement in their daily lives. Here’s an example:

“For every hour of exercise you do, you could live two hours longer, even if you don’t start working out until you are middle aged!”

The materials are available to view on the Partnership’s website here.

Here’s to your health!

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