Wellness Committee Meeting – May 4, 2007
Members present: Maxine Kaplan, Jon Luckstead, Alisol Martinez, Merrilee Shopland, Susan Smith, Holly Delacroix, Evelyn Goss, Chris De La Ronde, Carol Hirsh, Kathy Judge and Stacey Thompson-Stover.
Meeting began at 9:10am. The minutes were changed to add names and make corrections to spelling of names. Minutes were approved by Maxine (1st), Merrilee (2nd)
Recorder for this meeting was Holly Delacroix.
Old Business:
The survey is done and has been reviewed and is ready to be posted online. We have requested a drawing for a massage for those that participate, but are looking for suggestions as to how to keep the names anonymous. It was suggested that each participant reply and be given a number, or add a final statement that links the person to give their name and contact info to enter the drawing.
We would like to get the email out ASAP and in a separate email so it will get noticed. We agreed to send the email subject line, “Wellness Program @ ACC?”
We want the survey available from May 8 or 9 – May 31st, long enough for faculty to participate before or after summer session. We will have a brief statement of purpose at the beginning. Merrilee will get this together, Holly was appointed to gather results.
We also plan to create a flyer to put in and around the duplication areas. Evelyn will look into being able to use a phone message and Kathy will ask the association presidents to add a link to the survey on their respective websites.
Budget was reviewed by the committee and it was suggested that money be moved from benefits to travel. We also would like to increase the amount of travel money for the consecutive years. It was also suggested that we move the first year budget amount down from $100,000 to $75,000. However, we then agreed to keep it at the original amount. Carol made the motion to accept the budget with the few minor changes, Merrilee second.
We then heard the team reports from those that were present.
Becky’s team was in charge of the goodies and she asked that we email her with ideas for free stuff and donations. Her email is .
It was asked that someone research and report on the costs of other wellness programs at other colleges/universities. Also, we need someone to research the availability and look of other wellness newsletters.
Another team met and put together some program elements that will be presented to Dr. Kinslow for our first year. Merrilee asked the committee to break into smaller groups to prioritize the program elements and then compare our results. Our results showed that we agreed that health information and lectures and partner support were our top two priorities. We followed those with incentives, one-time events, and one on one support. Kathy will put a report together with these results and send to the committee for review.
We would like to add more information to out website, which currently links from benefits. When it is better developed, we will request a direct link. We plan to add a link to BCBSTX and Scott & White as they each have their own wellness section with health information. Any other suggestions/ideas for our current website, please email Merrilee.
Our next meeting will be at HBC on June, 15th @ 9am.