Employee Health & Wellness: Highlighting the ACPS Employee Wellness Program

Have you ever heard the saying “If you don’t feel well, you don’t perform well?” In a world where everyone is constantly busy, it is easy to forget about your own health and wellness. The truth is that neglecting your own wellness affects your daily life. People often only associate physical health with wellness, but there are five other tenets of wellness: mental, spiritual, emotional, social and environmental.

Alexandria City Public Schools (ACPS) Employee Wellness makes it easier for staff to practice this by encouraging wellness activities across the division. Each school has a wellness champion who executes activities and events at their sites. Also, ACPS Central Office, the Pupil Transportation and Fleet Management Office and Textbook Warehouse have their own wellness champions who coordinate activities for staff at those sites.

The 2023 ACPS Employee Wellness Bingo is currently underway. Staff can share their participation in the challenge by completing a short google form by 5 p.m. on Fri., March 24, 2023. Participants’ names will be entered into a raffle for every five boxes completed. Fifty winners will be chosen to receive a gift card from the ACPS Employee Wellness prize patrol.