What is a Wellness Champion?
Very few persons are able to maintain a healthy lifestyle 100% of the time. We often find ourselves sliding toward those habits that are not in our best health interests. With the increasing demands at the workplace as well as in our personal lives, maintaining a healthy lifestyle has become a challenge. Too often, making time during each day to improve your personal well-being is diminished or eliminated altogether. We want to give you an opportunity to do some things differently, to do something for yourself and your fellow co-workers at the same time. We are looking for volunteers to be wellness champions. A Wellness Champion is a staff member with a commitment to health that serves as an ambassador for the Employee Wellness Program. They volunteer to assist in the implementation and coordination of wellness initiatives. They share information, engage friends and colleagues to participate in wellness programs and create excitement around leading a healthy lifestyle.
How does the School/Department benefits from having a Wellness Champion?
The School District of Palm Beach County is committed to helping our employees adopt a healthy lifestyle and improve their quality of life. It has been proven that people who are healthy and manage stress effectively are more productive, more motivated and more satisfied- at home and at work. While our focus is to promote the health & well-being of School District staff through education, behavior modification, guidance and support, the program also produces good role models for the students while supporting high student achievement.
What does a Wellness Champion do at your work location?
- Choose Healthy Lifestyle Programs to Fit your Location Needs and Interests
- Help Others to Understand Employee Wellness Programs and Benefits Available
- Assist Others through Leadership, Enthusiasm and Guidance to Get Started on Wellness Habits
- Monitor and Chart Progress on Wellness Activities to Measure Success
- Praise and Reward Program Success
- Innovate Creative Programs on Various Health Topics
- Organize Fun Health Events and Promote Monthly Health Topics
- Nominate More Wellness Champions and Establish Coordinated School Health Teams
- Solicit Feedback on the Wellness Program to Evaluate and Support Employee Wellness
What are the rewards of being a Wellness Champion?
Wellness Champions will receive incentive prizes, recognition, and be eligible for a $500 Honorarium as well as professional development for participation. Serving as a Wellness Champion will not take a lot of extra time during the day. This role is essential, however, to the success of the overall wellness program. We currently have 150 Wellness Champions, but our goal is to have a Wellness Champion for every school and department.
How can I apply to become a Wellness Champion?
If you are looking for a unique opportunity to help yourself and others to improve health and well-being, please become a Palm Beach County School District Wellness Champion. For more information please contact Employee Wellness.
What are the roles & responsibilities for a Wellness Champion?
Wellness Champions have several options to provide great wellness programs for their location. The annual kick-off meeting is held in September. TRAINU is utilized to provide websites, presentations, and resources to assist schools in promoting Nutrition & Weight Management, Know your Numbers, Stress Management, Physical Activity, Wellness Communications and Other Special Events. This course contains all forms required to receive your stipend and professional development points, as well as monthly wellness champion updates.
Log onto Train U, Click on Wellness Champions 2012
Wellness Champions are vital to the success of Employee Wellness. They are the heart and soul of wellness initiatives at their location and have made impressive strides in improving personal health and the health of their co-workers. Wellness Champions have been very successful in helping us to increase awareness of health risks and motivate employees to make positive health behavior changes which will ultimately affect student achievement.
Thank you to all Wellness Champions for making a difference!

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