Health Promotion Program Helps To Keep The Workforce Well
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.
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.