Harlingen CISD High Five To Thrive: Un Nuevo Vistazo Al Bienestar De Los Empleados.

Press release from the Harlingen Consolidated Independent School District:

November 3, 2020

This school year, HCISD is initiating a new approach to wellness at work with its High Five to Thrive campaign to create an environment in which one can fulfill as a person. and as a community.

"Most of us spend more hours awake at work than at home," said Sandra Flinn, HCISD Coordinator of Sports, Aquatic and Wellness Development. "So what can we as a HCISD community do to help make that workday that much better?"

In partnership with It's Time Texas and the American Heart Association, the High Five to Thrive campaign will offer a year-long strategy to reorganize the wellness of HCISD staff based on the department's perspective on staff wellness.

High Five to Thrive will help employees better understand what wellness is.

"Sometimes people think that staff welfare is something done to them, rather than for them," Flinn said. “Wellness is not just about running 5 km or eating vegetables. It really is more than that. It's your mental health, your physical health, your spiritual health, the whole package. "

Currently, the High Five to Thrive campaign is working to create a team to help bridge the gap between idea and action in every school and department. This team of people will bring all the initiatives to your school or department and help implement them.

“The next step I'm on now is working on gathering applications from all the schools in the district from people who want to be the High Five Heroes in their school, department or building,” said Flinn. "Those people will be a team that will work together to produce the best of the best initiatives."

High Five to Thrive sets itself apart from previous employee wellness campaigns by creating an inclusive and holistic approach not only for teachers, but also for other HCISD employees such as bus drivers, custodians, and more.

"I think High Five to Thrive will be different," said Flinn. “It's going to be an inclusive and holistic approach, it's not just about going out and walking the track and sending emails that a lot of people delete. We are really going to do everything we can to reach everyone where they are. "

High Five to Thrive is working to redesign the employee wellness website to ensure that staff have access to inclusive information. The campaign will also work to integrate wellness across the district with health promoting events and health care fairs in order to create a culture of wellness.

Overall, High Five to Thrive aims to use innovative ways to transform the way staff receive information and motivate them to see wellness from a different perspective.

“We hope that the things that we can pass on to our employees here at HCISD can be brought into the community, taken home with their family and the circle connects,” said Flinn.

This press release was produced by the Harlingen Consolidated Independent School District . The views expressed are the author's own.