MHealthy Champions

Update! Deadline for the acceptance of MHealthy Champion applications has been extended through May 11, 2012. Apply today!

MHealthy Champions are staff and faculty volunteers who help to create a culture of health within their work areas. Champions promote MHealthy programs and act as a liaison between their department and MHealthy to provide us with feedback, thoughts or ideas to make our programs even better and useful for their area. Our goal is to have a representative group of our entire university community that includes diversity in job roles and levels, age, race, and gender.

Purpose of the Program

To improve and/or sustain healthy behaviors and reduce health risk factors among University faculty and staff by:

  1. Increasing the number of departments at the U-M who are supporting employee health and well-being and;
  2. Recognizing and honoring both individual and department efforts to create healthy workplaces.

Champion Responsibilities

  • Attend two MHealthy Champion Meetings per program year (an all-day June Retreat and a one-hour January Informational Meeting)
  • Organize at least one healthy event for your workplace (as big or as small as you like)
  • Complete the Workplace Wellness Checklist (WWC) and create an Action Plan (completed in year 1 of each 2-year cycle). MHealthy Wellness Coordinators are available to assist you with the WWC and creation of your action plan.
  • Implement at least one goal from your Action Plan
  • Share your success with us!

Time Commitment

We ask Champions to serve a two-year term. The estimated monthly time commitment is 1-2 hours a month.

Becoming a Champion

Becoming a Champion can occur in one of two ways:

  • Supervisor nominates someone in their department. The nominee fills out an online application.
  • Someone applies to be a Champion for their work area on their own.

**In both scenarios, a submitted application triggers an email to your supervisor asking him/her to approve your participation in the program. The email will contain a link to the Charge document outlining the program requirements and estimated time commitment. Once the supervisor sends a reply to us approving your participation, you will be accepted into the program.**

You can submit an application to the program here https://champs.mhealthy.org