Any sized employer is welcome to join our Wabasha County Workplace Wellness Collaborative! Whether your organization has a wellness initiative in place or is new to the concept, we invite you to learn more and participate. Consistently investing in the health of your employees is an important step for all employers to take.
Please email Tina Moen, Wabasha County SHIP Coordinator or call her at 651-565-5200 to learn how to get involved and for information on about our next quarterly meeting to be held on March 11, 2025 from 1 to 2 p.m. via Zoom.
The activities below are what Wabasha County Statewide Health Improvement Partnership (SHIP) can support during the 2024/2025 grant cycle.
Foundational start-up and sustainability activities include:
Gaining leadership support
Forming a wellness committee
Securing a budget
Assessing the workplace environment and employee interest
Communicating the wellness initiative through a communications timeline
Measure outcomes
MN Eats workplace activities include:
Breastfeeding friendly workplaces
Workplace healthy food gardens (community-based agriculture)
Farm to employer
Healthy food in vending, cafeterias, and snack stations
Healthy beverage access
MN Moves workplace activities include:
Workplaces support active transportation connected to the workday
Bicycle-Friendly or Walk-Friendly Certification
MN Wellbeing
Incorporate social connections
Build-trauma-informed principles into workplaces
Optimize support for employees’ wellbeing.
MN Commercial Tobacco-Free
Commercial tobacco-free workplaces
SHIP is a state-based program that works at the local level to support healthier communities by expanding opportunities for active living, healthy eating, wellbeing and tobacco-free living, thereby helping to reduce the leading causes of chronic disease and death. For information on what it means to partner with Wabasha County SHIP on healthy eating, physical activity, wellbeing, and/or tobacco-free environment projects, please email Tina Moen or call her at 651-565-5200.
You are also welcome to participate in a FREE upcoming event offered by the Minnesota Department of Health Statewide Health Improvement Partnership (SHIP)to employers and their wellness committees.
Introducing a six part series to share the U.S. Surgeon General’s Framework for Workplace Mental Health and Wellbeing. This framework lays the foundation for workplaces to start to examine their culture and take action to change culture within their organizations.
SHIP is a success for Minnesota Workplaces:
100% of Minnesota employers recently surveyed[1] believe that building a culture of health is an important goal to have in a workplace.
73% of employers observed improvements in healthy food and beverages consumed.
67% noticed positive changes in physical activity among employees.
92% percent indicated that their wellness program efforts have advanced due to SHIP.
Is your business outside of the Wabasha County area? If so, visit this website for more information for your local SHIP Contact.
