Health Promotion Program Helps To Keep The Workforce Well

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Health Promotion Program Helps To Keep The Workforce Well Photo by Jason White

Promoting a healthy workforce falls into the hands of professionals who have completed a Workplace Wellness and Health Promotion program, such as the one offered at Centennial College. This is achieved through the implementation of programs that educate and encourage workers to make healthy lifestyle choices. Once students complete the Workplace Wellness and Health Promotion program, they are hired in community health promotion, corporate employee wellness, and not-for-profit organizations as well as wellness entrepreneur positions that include wellness coordinator, health promotion consultant or program manager. Those who complete Centennial College’s Workplace Wellness and Promotions program enjoy great success. In 2012, the offering sat an 80 per cent job placement rate.

Let take a look at how they get there and the Workplace Wellness and Health Promotions program that takes them there.

• Workplace Wellness and Health Promotions is Canada’s first-ever accredited post-graduate wellness program with a respected national and international reputation.

• Applicants to Workplace Wellness and Health Promotion must be mature students, meaning they have successfully completed a post-secondary diploma or degree program, open to all disciplines. They must also demonstrate English proficiency.

• The goal of the offering is to help students acquire essential program management and communication skills needed to become effective managers of wellness programs.

• The health and wellness programs take just one year to complete and results in an Ontario College Graduate Certificate.

• Much of the emphasis of the Workplace Wellness and Health Promotions program is on assessing health risk factors, developing stress management plans and strategies and lifestyle coaching.

• These areas are covered within context via courses such as: Health Promotion Theory, Health & Wellness Concepts, Mental Health Management, Environmental Health, Health Promotion and Organizational Development, and more.

• In conjunction with its courses, the Workplace Wellness and Health Promotion program offers students practical experience through the creation of promotional materials for mini-fairs and health awareness events.

• The on-campus hands on experience is a great precursor to the Workplace Wellness and Health Promotion program’s field placement, which expects students to integrate and apply theories and skills learned in both semesters.

• Among the Workplace Wellness and Health Promotion program’s placement partners are: Canadian Breast Cancer Society, Ministry of Education, Heart & Stroke Foundation, Scotia bank, Ontario March of Dimes, Sun Life Financial, and Variety Village, York Region, Peel Regional Police and many others.

• Once students complete their placement, they present the final version of their professional portfolio, which should incorporate their personal “brand”.  In addition, students present the key activities and projects of their placement experience along with career and contact information to fellow classmates and invited guests.

• Before going on workplace experience, the Workplace Wellness and Health Promotion program expects students to have CPR – Level HCP and standard first aid and a vulnerable sector screening (police check). All certificates must be valid for the entire duration of the field placement.

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Jason, as the author of this piece, breaks down the essential information about the Workplace Health and Wellness programs at Centennial College.


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