New Wellness Program!
Spring into Action 2020
Please see below the packet for more information on community clean up dates, the spring maintenance checklist, flag and uniform ordering, safety and wellness updates and much more! If you have specific questions regarding the your property’s community clean up, please contact your supervisor.
Happy Spring Cleaning!
June/July Safety Training
Property Managers:
Find attached the training handout Heat Illness Prevention, as well as a Safety Training Form (Sign-In Sheet) to present at your June/July monthly meeting.
For additional training resources, see Grace Hill’s “Heat Stress”. It is an approximately 40-minute training that you can assign to your staff. The Grace Hill training is optional however will apply toward the elective training requirement for the quarter.
The training must be completed with the Training Sign-In Sheet returned to me (acooper@cambridgeres.com) no later than Friday, July 13, 2018.
Be sure to let me know if you have any questions!
Thank you,
Angela Cooper, SPHR, SHRM-SCP
Director of Human Resources & Safety
March Safety Training
Property Managers:
Find attached the March training handout, “Back Injury Prevention” as well as a Training Sign-In Sheet.
Please present this in your March monthly meeting. For additional training resources, see Grace Hill’s “Safety Series: Preventing Back Injury”. It is a 30-minute training that you can assign to your staff. The Grace Hill training will apply toward the 2 class elective training requirement for the quarter.
The training must be completed with the Training Sign-In Sheet returned to me no later than Thursday, March 29, 2018.
Be sure to let Angela Cooper (acooper@cambridgeres.com) in the HR Department know if you have any questions!
Spring Into Action 2018
Hello Managers,
Please see the Spring Into Action 2018 packet for information on community clean up dates, the spring maintenance checklist, flag and uniform ordering, safety and wellness updates and much more! If you have specific questions regarding the your property’s community clean up, please contact your supervisor. Happy Spring Everyone!
Cambridge Wellness Initiative
Any employee whose Employment Understanding (EU) is for 15 or more hours per week is eligible to participate. Please reach out to Human Resources to find out more about the following programs and how you can sign up for one or both.
1. Smoking Cessation
o If you quit smoking and are nicotine free for 30 days you can earn $300 wellness bonus on your paycheck. If you are nicotine free for 3 months (which includes your first 30 days) you can earn another $300 wellness bonus. After being nicotine free for 6 months you can be entered into a drawing of $1000 give away.
o If you choose to participate you will be subject to nicotine testing after 4 weeks, 12 weeks and 24 weeks of being nicotine free to be eligible for the bonus and the $1000 drawing.
o This offer is available to employees once every 12 months.
o Please keep in mind that an Electronic cigarettes or nicotine patches/gums do not make you nicotine free.
o Please notify your Wellness Committee if you are already in the process of quitting smoking.
o Your first 30 days begins the first day that you are nicotine free (without smoking cessation aids that contain nicotine, or smoking).
o The deadline to have your name entered into the drawing is December 31. The drawing for $1000 will take place at the employee symposium, held in January/February.
2. Weight Management
o Cambridge will cover full cost of your monthly membership/online subscriptions with Weight Watchers for one year.
o Please call/email Human Resources to find out about Weight Watchers meeting locations in your area and how to get half off discount when signing up. Please note that sign up can take up to 10 days to set up your account with Weight Watchers.
o PLEASE DO NOT SIGN UP ON WEIGHT WATCHERS YOURSELF, PLEASE GO THROUGH YOUR Human Resources.
o Please keep in mind that Cambridge will not be tracking your weight or how much weight you lose. Information collected from employees will be solely on voluntary basis.
Happy New Year to you, and Happy YOU in the New Year!
As 2013 comes to an end, and we can see the start of 2014 in the horizon – it’s a good time to think ahead to what our goals for the next year are. Each year, people all over the world create their own lists of “New Year’s Resolutions”, here is a helpful article on how to create manageable resolutions: http://www.cnn.com/2013/12/30/health/new-years-resolutions-different/ Continue reading “Happy New Year to you, and Happy YOU in the New Year!”
Wellness Inititives Refresher
At the beginning of this year, Cambridge introduced 2 Wellness Initiatives. This is a refresher on what those are, and a reminder to employees that they are still available and can be taken advantage of at any moment, just contact a member of the Wellness Committee.
Any employee whose Employment Understanding(EU) is for 15 or more hours per week is eligible to participate.
Please reach out to your Wellness Committee to find out more about the following programs and how you can sign up for one or both.
Smoking Cessation
- If you quit smoking and are nicotine free for 30 days you can earn a $300 wellness bonus on your paycheck. If you are nicotine free for 3 months (which includes your first 30 days) you can earn another $300 wellness bonus. After being nicotine free for 6 months you can be entered into a drawing of $1000 give away.
- If you choose to participate you will be subject to nicotine testing after 4 weeks, 12 weeks and 24 weeks of being nicotine free to be eligible for the bonus and the $1000 drawing.
- This offer is available to employees once every 12 months.
- Please keep in mind that an Electronic cigarettes or nicotine patches/gums do not make you nicotine free.
- Please notify your Wellness Committee if you are already in the process of quitting smoking.
- Your first 30 days begins the first day that you are nicotine free (without smoking cessation aids that contain nicotine, or smoking).
Weight Management
- Cambridge will pay half of your monthly membership subscriptions with Weight Watchers for 6 months.
- A minimum of 6 month membership required to get half off discount.
- Please call/email your Wellness Committee to find out about Weight Watchers meeting locations in your area and how to get half off discount when signing up. Please note that sign up can take up to 10 days to set up your account with Weight Watchers.
- PLEASE DO NOT SIGN UP ON WEIGHT WATCHERS YOURSELF, PLEASE GO THROUGH YOUR WELLNESS COMMITTEE.
- Cambridge will not be tracking your weight or how much weight you lose. Information collected from employees will be solely on voluntary basis.
For questions, please contact your Wellness Committee
Wellness Challenge Winners Announced!
We are pleased to announce the 3 prize winners of the Cambridge Wellness Challenge, but first, a huge THANK YOU to all the employees that participated. Our thoughts behind this wellness program were to provide an incentive to boost employee’s healthy habits. We hope you enjoyed the challenge, and continue with your positive life style choices.
And now to the exciting stuff…
The Winners are:
Top Prize- Ipod Touch
ZAYIN GILES – Fawnbook (Twin Falls, ID)
2nd Prize – Nike Fuel Band
MELODY BURDETTE – King Plaza (Milwaukie, OR)
3rd Prize – $75 Nike Gift Card
NAPUA BURCH – Fawnbrook (Twin Falls, ID).
Prizes will be mailed to employee’s sites in next Friday’s mail.
Congratulations to these three winners and thank you to all the employees that participated!!!
Abel Briceno
Amanda Harris
Breana Thomas
Crystal Garcia
Deb Good
Jackie Herrera
James Clarke
Justin Nelson
Kirsten Beijer
Laura Mather
Melissa Bertrand
Melody Burdette
Misty Stuker
Napua Burch
Natalie Acevedo
Sheri Engelgau
Vanessa Heisler
Zayin Giles
We look forward to the next Wellness Challenge and would love to hear any feedback you have about this challenge.
Sincerely,
The Wellness Committee
Jasmine Kwatra jkwatra@cambridgeres.com
Kelsey Schneider kschneider@cambridgeres.com
Misty Stuker mstuker@cambridgeres.com
Final Wellness Challenge Submittal
Good Afternoon!
Please submit your final Wellness calendars (dated September 1 – 15) by Thursday, September 19th. To submit, you can fax them to 503.450.0241 or send directly to Kelsey Schneider. We will be conducting the drawings on Friday, September 20th and announcing the winners via the eExchange.
We thank all of the employees who participated, and hope that you continue your healthy habits.
Any questions? Please contact a member of the Wellness Committee:
Jasmine Kwatra – jkwatra@cambridgeres.com
Kelsey Schneider – kschneider@cambridgeres.com
Misty Stuker – mstuker@cambridgeres.com