Leave Time
This program gives employees the ability to take 30 minutes/3 days a week to engage in physical activity/exercise.
What is 'Exercise During the Day' Program?
There is no longer a form required to participate in this long-standing exercise program.
What is 'Exercise During the Day' Program?
This weight management program from ERS BCBSTX is based on mindful eating practices and behavior change.
What is Wondr?
This bill expands workplace protections for employees with a need to express breastmilk.
Providing Urgent Maternal Protections for Nursing Mothers Act (aka the PUMP for Nursing Mothers Act)
This wellness dimension means to understand ourselves, our daily emotions, and cope with the challenges that life brings. Self-awareness and self-care are important pieces to this dimension.
What is Emotional Wellness?
By engaging in 150 minutes of physical activity for 10-weeks of the Get Fit! Texas Challenge, employees get this amount of leave time?
What is 8 hours?
What is the Wellness Program's 'Release of Liability' waiver in PeopleSoft?
What is Real Appeal?
Employees wishing to donate to the Wellness Program must complete this form.
What is Form 2294 - Request for Approval (RFA) to Accept Gifts or Donations?
This wellness dimension means learning how to successfully manage financial resources. This includes understanding and living within individual financial means and planning for future financial health.
What is Financial Wellness?
Texas Government Code §661.917 allows employees sufficient time off, without a deduction in salary or accrued leave, to do this up to four times per fiscal year.
What is donate blood?
These are the two parts of the Well Check Program.
What is: annual physical examination with PCP and completion of an online Health Risk Assessment.
These are the two virtual telemedicine options for employees who have a HealthSelect BCBSTX Health Plan
What is Doctor on Demand and MDLive?
*Note: These cover both medical and mental health virtual visits.
These three districts have an indoor tobacco free policy.
Who are the Austin, San Antonio, and Waco districts?
This wellness dimension means taking care of and respecting our global environment and our personal surroundings.
What is Environmental Wellness?
This is the # of hours a part-time employee could be eligible for as part of the Well Check Program.
What is 4 hours?
**Note: Full-time employees are eligible for 8 hours of wellness leave for participating in the Well Check Program.
This # of weeks is what an employee has to complete the health risk assessment after receiving their annual physical exam as part of the Well Check Program.
What is two weeks?
Individuals earn points for participating in healthy living activities and can redeem points in an online shopping mall.
What is the 'Blue Points' Program?
This is the # of districts who have identified walking paths.
What is 12?
This wellness dimension means having an open mind and staying curious, considering new ideas and experiences, and engaging in ongoing learning opportunities that expand our knowledge and skills.
What is Intellectual Wellness?
An employee who has been employed for fewer than 12 months by the State or who worked fewer than 1,250 hours during the 12-month period preceding the beginning of this leave is eligible to take a leave of absence not to exceed 12 weeks. The employee must first use all available and applicable paid annual and sick leave, and the remainder of the leave is unpaid.
What is parental leave?
This # of days is what an employee has to submit program form and completion documentation as part of the Well Check Program.
What is 5 business days?
Tobacco users on the ERS HealthSelect BCBSTX health plan can get their surcharge waived if they complete this program.
What is ERS HealthSelect 'Choose to Quit' program.
*Note: 'Quitting Tobacco' and 'Staying Tobacco Free' courses are located in Well onTarget - under Self-Management Programs.
These are the four minimum requirements for establishing a Nursing Parent Room.
1. A clean private room, other than a bathroom, to express milk as needed.
2. Locking door (from the inside).
3. An easily accessible electrical outlet
4. Nearby a safe water source and a sink
This wellness dimension means developing a sense of connection with others, contributing to one’s community, and having positive relationships with family, friends, & co-workers. This includes having a strong social network that can give support and guidance when needed.
What is Social Wellness?