This will be an informational meeting about FSA's as open enrollment for medical expenses and dependent care is in November.  Come learn how FSA's also work with your VEBA or HSA plan.  This meeting will take place at WEAC in the Rehearsal Hall.

The National Sleep Foundation recommends adults 18 years and older get 7-9 hours of sleep each night.  During this challenge you will document how many hours you sleep each night.  Keep track of your total hours each week to document on the weekly google form sent out in Cardinal Essentials.

Our presenter, Kristle Chase, is a licensed Social Worker and School Linked Mental Health Therapist from Woodland Centers.  Kristle will present on the topic of secondary trauma that school staff are exposed to, along with burnout and self-care strategies.  Staff who attend this session must sign in at the time of the presentation in order to receive credit toward the incentive.

The presentation will be at 4:00 on Dec. 9th in the auditorium at WEAC.

This is a 4 week challenge.  Document the number of steps you get in a day - the goal is 10,000 each day.  Weekly google forms will be sent in Cardinal Essentials for you to submit your total steps each of the 4 weeks.  Bonus - you can document your steps with Sharecare too!

Keep track of your fruit and vegetable intake each day.  The recommended amount is 3-5 servings of vegetables and 2-4 servings of fruit, according to the food pyramid.  It is your goal to keep within this serving size each day throughout the challenge.  Weekly google forms will be sent for your to document your total servings for each week.

The challenge is to place 5 rubberbands around a 20oz water bottle.  Goal: 100oz per day.  Drinking water helps maximize physical performance, has a major effect on energy levels and brain function, may help prevent and treat headaches, can help with weight loss, and so on.  Weekly google forms will be sent in Cardinal Essentials for you to document your intake.

This is a new challenge this year!  A calendar will be sent out with the challenges for each day.  Essentially, each skill will build over time (i.e. 10 push ups day 1 leading up to 45 push ups by day 25).  Weekly google forms will be sent in Cardinal Essentials to document progress.

Information about the cooking demonstration will come out at a later date.

The gratitude kits are a tool for staff to use to express gratitude to others in our community to boost happiness!  In the kit there are tools to write and send up to 5 gratitude letters.  Staff who complete this activity should fill out the google form in Cardinal Essentials to earn credit toward the incentive.  Gratitude Kits can be requested by emailing Alison Scheffler at schefflera@willmar.k12.mn.us

If you sign up for and participate in a Community Education class that fits the Staff Wellness criteria (see notes in Cardinal Essentials next to CE class names), fill out the google form in Cardinal Essentials with the information for the class you attend.  Classes that have met criteria in the past include fitness classes, lamaze class, and so on.  **Note: Two Community Education classes will not count as two challenges.  You must particiapte in 3 different challenges to earn credit toward the VEBA/HSA incentive.

If you sign up for and participate in an adult rec sport league, you can fill out the google form in Cardinal Essentials to earn credit toward the VEBA/HSA incentive.   **Note: Two adult sports league participation will not count as two challenges.  You must participate in 3 different challenges to earn credit for the incentive.

**Note: Staff will need to participate in 3 different activities/challenges to earn credit toward the incentive.

If staff participate in Learn to Live or Beacon, they need to fill out the google form in Cardinal Essentials.  This form will be in CE weekly.

Staff who meet qualifications for Omada can use this as one of their "challenges" toward the VEBA/HSA incentive.

More information will come at a later date.