Small Steps to Health and Wealth

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Small Steps to Health and Wealth

• Barbara ONeill, Ph.D., CFP
• Karen Ensle, Ed.D., RD, FADA

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SSHW Elevator Statement
Small Steps to Health and Wealth encourages
participants to make positive behavior changes to
simultaneously improve their health and personal
finances.
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Program Objectives

• Integrate health/nutrition and personal finance
  subject matter into one class
• Explore common behavior change strategies
• Motivate participants to improve their health and
  wealth
• Conduct impact evaluation and health-wealth
  research

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Program Components

• Two consumer presentations
• SSHW workbook (132 pages)
• 35 SSHW fact sheets at www.rce.rutgers.edu/healthf
  inance/smallsteps.asp
• The SSHW Challenge
• Online registration and impact evaluation system
  (University of AZ server)
• Ongoing impact evaluation and health and wealth
  research

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Huge Potential to Quantify and Aggregate Impact
Data From SSHW

• Statewide
• Nationwide
• Savings
• Debt Reduction
• Savings From Healthy Behaviors (CDC Estimate)

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SSHW Framework 25 Health Wealth Behavior
Change Strategies

• Use Easy Frames of Reference
• Automate Good Habits and Create Templates
• Live The Power of 10
• Take Calculated Risks and Conquer Fears
• Appreciate Teachable Moments and Wake-Up Calls
• Weigh the Costs and Benefits of Changing
• Step Down to Change
• Kick It Up a Notch
• Control Your Environment
• Monitor Your Progress Reward Success
• Expect Obstacles Prepare For Relapses
• Set a Date Get StartedJust Do It!

• Track Your Current Behavior
• Unload Your Childhood Baggage
• Put Your Mind To It
• Commit to Making a Change
• Defy Someone or Defy the Odds
• Think Balance-Not Sacrifice
• Control Your Destiny
• Make Progress Every Day
• Get Help and Be Accountable
• Meet Yourself Halfway
• Say No to Supersizing
• Convert Consumption Into Labor
• Compare Yourself With Benchmarks

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The Jersey Diner Approach

• Adopt strategies that work for you
• Choose 3 to 4 (max) strategies

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What Will YOU Do to Get Healthy and Wealthy?
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Source of SSHW Materials

• Workbooks will be available from the Natural
  Resource, Agriculture, and Engineering Service
  (NRAES) at Cornell University (www.nraes.org)
• Web site will be hosted by RCE and University of
  AZ
• Class CDs available from Dr. ONeill or materials
  can be downloaded for free

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Small Steps to Health and Wealth Game

Changing Behavior
Odds and Ends
Food and Health
Personal Finance
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SSHW Journal Article For Background Information
See The Forum For Family and Consumer Issues
www.ces.ncsu.edu/depts/fcs/pub/9_3/smallsteps.htm
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Why Participate in SSHW? (WIIFM)

• Turn-key program SSHW program support materials
  are done and available for free!
• Opportunity for high-dollar impact
• Can teach nutrition and money management together
  if you have responsibility for both topics
• Very marketable to media (New Years resolutions)
• Your colleagues are (9,000 book pre-orders)
• Can adapt to meet local audience needs