ETWR Recognition Application 2022

Introduction

Welcome to the East Tennessee Wellness Roundtable (ETWR) Recognition application. Thank you for your interest and for taking the time to complete this application.

ETWR is a member-based collaboration of area professionals who strive to create cultures of wellness at their worksites through the promotion of professional development, evidence-based wellness and networking. Our goal is to promote physical, mental, emotional, financial and spiritual wellness among East Tennessee employers and their employees. There is no fee to join the organization. If you are not already a member, and wish to join, click here.

ETWR Recognition program recognizes businesses that exemplify excellence in worksite wellness. It takes a systems approach to worksite wellness by targeting evidence-based built environment and policy changes. The aim is to create cultures of health rather than to focus on traditional wellness programming. To achieve ETWR Recognition, worksites must demonstrate a supportive wellness infrastructure and must meet a certain number of criteria related to disease prevention category items. The online application was developed and adapted from the 2019 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Worksite Health ScoreCard. The application contains items related to infrastructure, disease monitoring and prevention, physical activity, nutrition, lactation and pregnancy, mental health and substance abuse and tobacco use. Worksites awarded the ETWR Bronze, Gold or Platinum status will be given a certificate, decals and access to the logo. For a breakdown of the three tiers, visit our website. To review the tier criteria, click here.

Preview the full application here.

This application will also allow you to communicate areas where your worksite could use assistance/funding/resources from the Knox County Health Department (KCHD) in order to implement new wellness initiatives or improve upon existing initiatives. For example, if you would like to have an employee garden, but do not have the resources to purchase gardening supplies, you can request resources from KCHD to support this initiative. Examples of resources being provided are bike racks, fitness equipment for onsite fitness centers, kitchen equipment for preparing healthy foods, supplies and furniture for lactation rooms, supplies for worksite gardens, scales and blood pressure cuffs for health monitoring, walking route and smoke-free workplace signage, and supervisor trainings. KCHD can also provide technical assistance and sample worksite policies for improving upon or implementing new wellness initiatives.

The information collected in this application will not be made public. However, awarded worksites will gain publicity through the ETWR website, ETWR Facebook page and through media releases, unless you select that you wish for your worksite to be unlisted. Worksites may use and are encouraged to use ETWR Recognition for employee recruitment, retention and health promotion. The application should take approximately 30 minutes to complete. Applications will be scored based on a predetermined scoring protocol to determine whether or not your worksite is eligible for ETWR Recognition. You will be notified of award status and eligibility for resources from KCHD no later than Friday, March 18, 2022. Should your worksite not achieve the certification or desired resources at this time, you will have the opportunity to reapply in January 2023. Please answer questions as accurately as possible.
The application closes on Friday, February 25 at 5:00 p.m. EST.

This project is funded under grant contract with the State of Tennessee.