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    Well City Milwaukee: Creating a Workable Plan to Evaluate a City-Wide Worksite Wellness Initiative

    Project Overview

    4th Funding Cycle Development Award
         Project Start Date: 7/1/2008
         Project End Date: 6/30/2009

    Project Goal Statement: Well City Milwaukee will assist employers to deliver results oriented wellness programs as a strategy to enhance the health and wellbeing of their workforce, manage health care expenditures and raise awareness of the importance of healthy lifestyles.

    Original Award Amount: $49,996
    Adjusted Award Amount: $47,085*

    Community Partners:
    Primary Community Partner: YMCA of Greater Milwaukee
    Additional community partner organization names:

    • City of Milwaukee
    • Greater Milwaukee Committee
    • Metropolitan Milwaukee Association of Commerce
    • Wellness Council of Wisconsin

    Academic Partner:
    Primary Academic Partner: Jane Moreley Kotchen, MD, MPH, Department of Population Health

    Project Progress Summary Reports:
         Project Progress Report Summary 7/1/2008 - 4/30/2009
         Project Final Summary Report    

    Affiliated Web Pages:
        City of Milwaukee
        Greater Milwaukee Committee
        Metropolitan Milwaukee Association of Commerce
        Wellness Council of Wisconsin
        YMCA of Metropolitan Milwaukee

    Project Dissemination Efforts (as reported by project partners)

    • Presentations
      • Presented to professional, civic and health insurance or benefits related organizations to promote Well City Milwaukee
    • Website - http://wellcitymilwaukee.org/
       

    *In 2009 award amounts, based on the remaining budget, were adjusted to reflect the decline in endowment asset value due to the downturn in the economy.