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CUNA HR/TD Council White Paper Provides an In-Depth Look at Wellness Programs

Jenny Jackson
CUNA Councils
800-356-9655 ext. 4102
jjackson@cuna.coop

Madison, Wis. – Helping employees stay healthy and avoid disease, illness and accidents makes good business sense. If an organization has healthy employees, not only are its health care costs lower, but the employees are happier, more productive, and higher performing, which translates to lower operating costs. If employees’ families are healthy as well, it further reduces an organization’s overall health care costs.

That’s why a growing number of credit unions have introduced wellness programs to keep employees and their families healthy. But to be effective, the programs have to be well designed. And as always, whatever gets measured gets done. Fortunately, data and resources have emerged to guide the design, launch, maintenance and evaluation of wellness programs.

A new white paper from the CUNA HR/TD Council titled “Credit Union Wellness Programs: Good Health Is Good Business,” makes the case for employee wellness programs and discusses:

Creating a vision and developing strategies
Program components
Program benefits and costs
Communication and promotion
Employee engagement and incentives

The paper also includes four cases studies featuring credit unions seeing positive results from their wellness programs.

CUNA Council members are entitled to complimentary copies of these and more than 300 white papers; non-members may purchase the white papers for a price of $50 per copy.

The papers are available online in the white paper section of www.cunacouncils.org – select the “HR/TD” tab.

CUNA HR/TD Council
The CUNA HR/TD Council is a member-led organization made up of more than 700 credit union HR and training professionals across the United States. The Council strives to provide superior educational and networking opportunities to help its members to become leaders and decision makers in their organizations. The CUNA HR/TD Council is one of the six organizations that make up the CUNA Councils, a network of more than 5,200 credit union professionals. For more information, visit www.cunahrtdcouncil.org or www.cunacouncils.org.