County Employees
Wellness Challenges and Winners!!
Ferry County Wellness Program
Ferry County has established a Wellness Program. This program is not funded by the county; it is run by our insurance company, WCIF and through the Washington Health Foundation, WHF.
Currently we have a Wellness Committee consisting of 6 members:
- Teri Kinney, co-coordinator
- Amanda Mycock, co-coordinator
- May Wheaton, member
- Kathy Lust, member
- Chris Burnside, member
- David Hodge, member
The committee is designated to do the following:
- Apply for grants and distributing those funds appropriately.
- Holding employee competitions to get employees involved in choosing to live healthy and get moving.
- Put out a newsletter.
The county's first competition is going to be walking challenge. The Wellness Committee, through funding from a grant, has purchased pedometers for each permanent full time employee. With these pedometers each employee will track the amount of steps or miles they take a week. The scores will be recorded by the wellness committee each week and at the end of six weeks the employee with the most steps or miles will win an incentive prize. There will also be a second and third place prize. At the end of two six week challenges names of all participating employees will be put into a drawing for a grand prize.
Stay tuned to see what else we come up with.
Employees...
To participate all you need to do is login to www.WCIF.net, click live well, enter your employee number (your SSN) two times, create a user name and password and start joining programs.
To be included in the Counties Wellness Program you must earn your 10 points. If you want to earn your $125.00 from the insurance company also you will need to earn those 10 points. To do this you need to have your biometric numbers. If unable to attend the biometric clinic on June 2nd, then you will need to get those numbers before November and enter them online. You must also join programs or any of the other activities listed on the web site to get those points.
The other part of the participation is joining WHF, which is www.whf.org to join this one you need your email address and a password, login as a champion and join Ferry County as the organization and join team 1. Log your miles, water, sleep, weight or exercise to earn points for Ferry County.
These are optional but our hope is that you all will want to participate.