ASSESSING A WORKPLACE WELLNESS PROGRAM

This report presents the assessment by the new coordinator of an organizational wellness program for employees. The structure of the assessment is as follows: (1) the status of the program; (2) recommended goals and actions for the program; and (3) predictions for the future of the program.

Currently, the wellness program at the community college is languishing. The major problem besetting the program is a lack of strong support from senior administration at the community college. Within the context of the lack of support from senior administration, the principal deficits are (1) inadequate funding, (2) inadequate access to other institutional resources, and (3) an expectation that volunteerism will cause the program to become effective.

The few initiatives made by the wellness program with some degree of resource support from the college administration have been successful over the short term. Over the long term, however, the absence of continuing resource support from the administration allowed the initiatives to die slow deaths.

The stage of readiness to support a workplace wellness program is low at the community college. Until the senior administration become aware of the organizational benefits of wellness programs and provide the resource and moral support required for a wellness program to succeed, the existing wellness program at the community college will continue along its present