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FOR
IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Monday, December 28, 2009
| Contact: |
Kateri
Wimsett
WorkWell
Coordinator
Thurston
County
Public Health & Social Services
(360) 867-2516
wimsetk@co.thurston.wa.us |
Local Employers Invited to Apply for Employee Health and Wellness
Program Funding
OLYMPIA
–
Thurston
County
employers are invited to apply for funding to support employee health and
wellness programs.
Thurston
County
has received an ASIST2010 grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human
Services Office on Women’s Health to support employers interested in
completing projects that create better access to healthy eating or physical
activity at work and promoting those options to employees.
Funding, up to $1000 per organization until all funds allotted are
gone, is offered only to employers that have not yet received funding as part
of ASIST2010. Funding is
competitive.
Applications
for funding can be picked up at the Thurston County Health Department at
412
Lilly Rd,
NE
in
Olympia
or downloaded from the county website at:
http://www.co.thurston.wa.us/health/
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