The Wellness Council of West Virginia  (WCWV) is committed to positively impacting an organization’s ability to succeed by improving the health and well-being of its most vital asset, the employee.

WCWV strives to demonstrate that a healthy workforce is a productive workforce and that with healthier workers, absenteeism declines, health benefit costs are lowered, and work satisfaction, recruitment and retention increases.

As the state’s primary resource for worksite wellness, the WCWV has a solid record of assisting employers in achieving excellence in worksite wellness.  Offering a variety of programs and services, the WCWV is an essential partner for organizations seeking to contain health and disability costs, and improve worker health and productivity.

For over 20 years, the WCWV has provided West Virginia with its number one training opportunity for Worksite Wellness initiatives- the Governor’s Conference on Worksite Wellness.  Additionally, the Council has provided well workplace trainings for hundreds of state businesses and business people.

The Wellness Council of West Virginia provides tobacco cessation resources and support to WV businesses through the Worksite Wellness Tobacco Policy Project- a program funded by the West Virginia Bureau for Public Health.  

Services include:

• Free consultation to encourage creation and/or modification of tobacco restriction policies in order to meet or exceed applicable Clean Indoor Air regulations
• Free Train the Trainer programs to empower on-site employers/employees to facilitate their customized cessation and/or wellness programs
• Free manual, “Building a Tobacco-Free Worksite.”
• Free Quit resources to support employers and employees in cessation programming
• Free one year membership to the Wellness Council of West Virginia
• Free on-site health fair exhibits
• Free Lunch n Learn (at work) programs

• Invitations to regional trainings on pertinent worksite issues to network and obtain information on tobacco cessation and other related worksite wellness issues

For more information visit www.wcwv.org or call (304) 766-2686.