Wellness professionals, please attend our upcoming health fair conference!

“Getting a Better Return on Investment (ROI) for your Corporate or Community Health Fair.” 

Tuesday, June 25, 2013

12pm - 5pm

Register for the event here!

The goal of this Health fair is to increase health awareness through screenings and education, promote positive behavior, and to incorporate supportive strategies for health fair techniques among corporate and community wellness individuals. As part of this event, there will be health fair created with local vendors. 

                                                                            June 25, 2013

                                                         Hilton St. Petersburg – Carillon Park

Session Descriptions

Why Do We Do Health Fairs, Anyway?

Have you ever wondered how much impact your health fair or community event is actually having?  This presentation will describe how health fairs and community events fit into healthcare access and improved health outcomes.  Through a combination of personal stories and sharing of best practices, attendees will be inspired to “Getting a Better ROI” on their next health fair and/or community event.

Community Health Fairs: To Screen or Not to Screen?

This breakout session that will explore the potential benefits, harms and ethical implications of providing screenings at Health Fair events. Discussion will include issues such as finding qualified providers, universal precautions, accurate results, responsibility for follow up, and cost benefit ratios. This presentation will make use of illustrations and case studies from both experience and published articles.

Assessment and Engagement:  Why and How?

Why invest in employee health improvements? Are your employees participating in your corporate health fair?  Are they completing their health risk assessments?   During this breakout session, participants will learn:

• How improving the health of your employees will improve your bottom line
• The basic components of a worksite wellness program
•  How to increase employee attendance and participation in employer health fairs
• How to increase employee participation in health risk assessments/biometric screening
• How to analyze your health risk assessment data to increase participation  
• How to effectively engage health risk assessment respondents through communication
  • How develop effective surveys
  • Increase response from participants   
  • Utilize web-based tools
  • Highlight success stories
  • Follow-up with participants

Measuring Health Fair Successes

Are you measuring the success of your health fair by counting vendors and participants?  Learn how to highlight outcomes!  During this breakout session, participants will learn how to choose the appropriate tool to measure the outcomes of their events.  Learning objectives include:

Tenets of Engagement for True Success

Whether you are planning a corporate health fair, a community event or something in between, true success results from getting participants to buy-in and commit to make lifestyle changes to improve their health.  From first-hand experience and success in generating buy-in, participants will learn how to truly engage others for meaningful outcome improvements.