Paint Your Worksite Red

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• Paint Your Worksite Red!

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BPW and Go Red For Women

• 2005 Formed an alliance to
• Make women aware of their risk of heart disease
• Advocate for legislative change that would
  impact womens heart health
• 2006 Activated our alliance, and
• Launched Healthy Heart Makeover program to
  encourage BPW members to know their risks and to
  encourage others to do the same
• Supported the HEART for Women Act

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BPW and Go Red For Women

• 2007 Continue our success!
• Promote Love Your Heart, Take the Heart CheckUp
  Join Go Red For Women!
• Support HEART for Women Act
• Go Red In Your Own Fashion Paint Your Worksite
  Red!

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Why Paint Your Worksite Red?

• Make a difference in your employees/colleagues
  lives
• One in three women has some form of
  cardiovascular disease
• Heart disease can be largely prevented
• Make a difference in your organizations
  productivity
• Employers can save up to 16 for every 1 spent
  on wellness and health promotion in the
  workplace. The Heart Check Up can help!
• Its a great employee relations tool that can
  promote and improve morale
• Highmark Blue Cross Blue Shield,
  www.highmark.com, 2005

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Why Paint Your Worksite Red?

• Make a difference in communities nationwide
• Join the American Heart Associations challenge
  to one million women to know their heart disease
  risk
• Be a part of the groundbreaking Go Red For Women
  movement to harness the energy, passion and power
  of women to band together and collectively wipe
  out heart disease.

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How Can You Paint Your Worksite Red?

• Make health a priority throughout the
  organization
• Get leadership visibly involved
• Identify peer spokespeople and success stories
• Encourage physical activity
• Promote healthy eating (including vending
  machines and food at meetings!)

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How Can You Paint Your Worksite Red?

• Educate employees on benefits and risks
• Host brown bag lunch presentations
• Order and distribute Go Red For Women educational
  materials
• Encourage employees to learn their personal risks
  for heart disease by taking the Go Red Heart
  CheckUp
• Available at www.GoRedForWomen.org

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How Can You Paint Your Worksite Red?

• Plan a Wear Red Day
• Encourage employees to wear red and jeans for a
  5 donation to the American Heart Association
• Use the Go Red For Women Day guide and other
  tools
• Use as a great kickoff or motivational event
  for your organizations commitment to health!
• Available at www.GoRedForWomen.org

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How Can You Paint Your Worksite Red?

• Participate in a local Go Red For Women Luncheon
• Go Red For Women Luncheons are a great way to
  promote, encourage and show your organizations
  commitment to womens health
• Feature experts, activities and topics aimed to
  educate women about cardiovascular disease, risk
  factors and heart-healthy lifestyles
• Average luncheon attracts 500 women who are
  community leaders
• There are more than 243 luncheons across the
  country

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How Can You Paint Your Worksite Red?

• Show your red on National Wear Red Day, and
  encourage your community to do so as well!
• In 2007 more 11,000 companies participated in
  National Wear Red Day
• And more than 214 landmarks and 30 cities across
  the U.S. literally went red

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How Can You Paint Your Worksite Red?

• Challenge other organizations to Go Red
• Go Red In Your Own Fashion!
• Develop a program that works for you and your
  organization
• Support womens heart health and enjoy/share
  clothing, accessories, jewelry and other items at
  www.ShopGoRed.org

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How Can You Paint Your Worksite Red?

• Get started today by
• Talking with your Human Resources contact and/or
  your organizations leadership
• Going online to www.GoRedForWomen.org to
• Order educational materials and download other
  resources
• Personally enroll in Go Red For Women and conduct
  a Heart CheckUp!

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• Paint Your Worksite Red!