Tools & Resources
Healthier Worksite Initiatives
This website (from CDC) provides research reports and toolkits on a variety of worksite initiatives including healthy eating, nutrition, lacatation support, preventive services, and healthy choices. It can be found in Business under Act on What's Important.
Investing in Health: Proven Health Promotion Practices in the Workplace
This document (from Partnership for Prevention) provides employers with guidance that can improve employee health by controlling tobacco use, promoting cancer screening and early detection, and encouraging physical activity and healthy eating. It can be found in Business under Act on What’s Important...
Value Based Purchasing Guide
This website (from National Business Coalition on Health) provides access to a guide that can assist your company in learning more about and designing your employee health benefits in a way that increases value through employees' wellness activities, chronic disease management, and incentives for providers to provide higher quality care.
Getting Active: Physical Activity at Work
This article (from Wellness Council of America) provides 50 specific ideas about how to increase physical activity in the workplace. (Note: email required for access) It can be found in Business under Act on What’s Important.
Choosing Wisely
This employer toolkit (from National Business Coalition on Health) provides resources for employers to help guide employees on how to talk with their health care provider and avoid the dangers of overuse of health care services. It can be found in Business under...
Convergence Partnership
This organization is a central source for policy and advocacy tools to support healthy eating and active living.
Action Communities for Health, Innovation, & Environmental Change
ACHIEVE fosters collaborative partnerships between city and county health officials, city and county government, tribal programs, parks and recreation departments, local YMCAs, local health-related coalitions, and other representatives from the school, business, health, and community sectors to implement improvements.
ChangeLab Solutions
This website (from ChangeLab Solutions) provides policy analysis and legal tools for supporting tobacco reduction, healthy nutrition and physical activity in schools, housing and neighborhoods.
Community Health Living Index
This website (from The Y) includes a set of five community assessment tools that measure opportunities for physical activity and healthy eating and facilitate discussion about how to improve the community environment to increase opportunities for healthy living.
Active Living by Design
This website (from North Carolina Public Health Institute) features tools to create community-led change by working with local and national partners to build a culture of active living and healthy eating.