Healthy Lifestyle Programs in Marion County

Leave A Comment

Additional Posts

Our commitment to addressing racial and socio-economic inequities in Indianapolis

We all have an obligation to take meaningful action to build a more just society, especially for our Black and Latino neighbors. Read more about @RMFFIndy's commitment to addressing racial inequities:

Success stories: Employers can play a vital role in helping their employees stop smoking

Alex Cohen is the Director of Learning and Evaluation for the Richard M. Fairbanks Foundation. Public policies like higher cigarette taxes and expanded access to evidence-based cessation treatment can help lower smoking rates in Indianapolis and across the state. But employers looking to help their employees quit and improve their health today have a number of tools already available, beyond these longer-term policy efforts. Take the experience of two Fortune 500 companies who used incentives to help employees quit. In 2004, General Electric launched a program that offered employees up to $750 if they quit smoking for 12 months. To test the impact, GE randomly offered the incentive to some […]