PEP — A Personal Empowerment Plan
Empower Your Employees with PEP to Get Active and Eat Better!
Personal
Empowerment Plan (PEP) is a strategy for work sites to promote healthy
eating and moderate physical activity. The Coordinator’s Guide will walk
you through the PEP Steps to implementing a wellness program: planning,
promoting, implementing, and evaluating. PEP includes a Coordinator’s
Guide, a CD of print-ready PDF tools, including the PEP logo for use on
participant materials and handouts. Also included is a Stage of Change
Test (or assessment) so you can match workbooks to each employees
starting point.
Why Use PEP?
According to formative research completed for the original version of PEP
(released 1999), the predominant barriers faced by individuals changing
their health behaviors were lack of energy and lack of time. PEP addressed
these barriers by providing simple ways for individuals to eat healthier
foods and increase physical activity as part of their daily lives.
In this revised version, PEP, now known as Personal
Empowerment Plan, continues to address barriers to improving eating and
increasing physical activity, but also provides worksite coordinators
with: current public health recommendations for these behaviors, basic tools
for worksite health promotion planning, and access to on-line tools that
allow for customization of materials for the worksite setting.
For More Information
Contact the Cooper Institute* in Dallas, Texas: (800) 635-7050.
For additional background information regarding the PEP program, you may send e-mail inquiries to CDC at cdcinfo@cdc.gov or call CDC's Nutrition and Physical Activity Program at 1-800-232-4636 (800-CDC-INFO).
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Page last updated: May 19, 2008
Content Source: Division of Nutrition, Physical Activity and Obesity, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion