Healthy Workplace Accelerator Program

Whether you have a smaller business or a larger company, we have made it easy to use our online resources and peer connections to help you build a wellness action plan that suits your organization's needs. Follow these steps in our online platform to develop your employee wellness action plan.

Create a culture of health with the Live Well @ Work Worksite Wellness Toolkit for Small and Medium-Size Businesses. The Toolkit was developed to assist worksites with implementing proven, step-by-step actions that can be taken to help keep employees healthy and productive, all on a small budget. Starting and maintaining a wellness program is easier and less expensive than it may seem!

Breastfeeding-Friendly Environments

Creating breastfeeding-friendly environments is good for everyone – children, parents, employers, and society. Breastfeeding reduces the risk of obesity, as well as infections and illnesses in infants, and lowers the risk of breast cancer and osteoporosis for mothers.

Through a partnership with UCSD Center for Community Health, we are working to increase the number of settings (businesses, school districts, community healthcare centers, and childcare sites) that support lactation accommodations and breastfeeding-friendly environments.

Additional resources from the San Diego Breastfeeding Coalition.

Diabetes Prevention for Employers

Approximately 96 million American adults—more than 1 in 3—have prediabetes. Of those with prediabetes, more than 80% don’t know they have it.  Prediabetes increases the risk of developing type 2 diabetes, heart disease, and stroke. The good news is that the National Diabetes Prevention Program can help people with prediabetes make lifestyle changes to prevent or delay type 2 diabetes and other serious health problems.

Whether you are a healthcare provider looking for lifestyle change resources for your clients, a community member looking for help, an employer interested in offering effective wellness resources to your employees, or an organization interested in building a program, this website is designed to provide the information and resources to help you.

Eat Well Practices

Offered as an example of a best practice, the Eat Well Practices are a set of recommended nutrition guidelines for all food and beverages purchased and offered by the County of San Diego. The Eat Well Practices consider the nutritional, environmental and economic impacts of the foods and beverages we purchase and consume, and promote a healthy food system.

Some aspects of the Eat Well Practices may help improve consumer wellness wherever food is served and can help bring positive change and model what it means to live well.

Eat Well Practices

Eat Well Fact Sheet

Meet Well Pledge Template

Live Well Community Market Program

The Live Well Community Market Program provides business support for small-to-medium sized local markets to reduce “food deserts” and improve neighborhood access to healthy and affordable foods. The program helps local market owners develop thriving business models that increase the availability and promotion of fresh produce and connects them to the community and local stakeholders to build a healthier food environment.