{"id":4750,"date":"2016-02-03T08:00:06","date_gmt":"2016-02-03T13:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/?p=4750"},"modified":"2016-02-02T22:18:28","modified_gmt":"2016-02-03T03:18:28","slug":"georgia-working-on-health-initiative-traci-gosier-sogalo16-2016-02-06","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/georgia-working-on-health-initiative-traci-gosier-sogalo16-2016-02-06.html","title":{"rendered":"Georgia Working on Health Initiative &#8211;Traci Gosier @ SOGALO16 2016-02-06"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\r\nWe are doing this for our health, and yours, too.\r\nAnd Traci Gosier&#8217;s talk is about health:\r\n<blockquote style=\"font-size:100%\">\r\n<p>\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/dph.georgia.gov\/working-on-health\">\r\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;border:none;width:300px\" src=\"http:\/\/dph.georgia.gov\/sites\/dph.georgia.gov\/files\/Eat%20Live%20Healthy%20Cling.png\"><\/a>\r\nWhat is the program? Georgia Working on Health Initiative. The \r\ninitiative aims to reduce the burden of chronic disease by\r\npartnering with Georgia businesses to create and enhance healthy\r\nworksite environments and improve employee health.\r\n<\/p>\r\n<p>\r\nHow do they get involved? Take the online pledge at\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/dph.georgia.gov\/working-on-health\">\r\ndph.ga.gov\/working-on-health<\/a>\r\nthen you will receive the following:\r\n<ol>\r\n<li>\r\nCommitment letter with sample policies\r\n<li>\r\nAn electronic version of the Work Healthy Georgia toolkit\r\n<li>\r\nWindow decals to post (tobacco free-environment,<!--more-->\r\n\r\n breast feeding \r\nfriendly, support employees being physically active and eating \r\nhealthy) at your school, worksite, early childcare setting, or\r\nretail establishment.\r\n<\/ol>\r\n<p>\r\nHow much does it cost? Free and technical assistance provided by\r\nSouth Health District Health Promotion Coordinator Traci Gosier \r\n(Traci.Gosier@dph.ga.gov)\r\n<\/p>\r\n<p>\r\nWhat are the benefits? Healthier employees, increase in employee \r\nmoral, increase in productivity, decrease in absenteeism and \r\npresenteeism\r\n<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n<p>\r\nYou can register now to hear Traci Gosier talk about health at \r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/s-ga-growing-local-2016\">\r\nSouth Georgia Growing Local<\/a>, Saturday, February 6th 2016, at Pine Grove Middle School, Lowndes County, Georgia.\r\nAnd note that&#8217;s the new\r\nPine Grove Middle School,\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/place\/Pine+Grove+Middle+School\/@30.9579221,-83.2618082,15z\/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x0:0x88cf394214f82e93?sa=X&#038;ved=0ahUKEwjDgpGasc3KAhUDaz4KHZcyC4AQ_BIIbTAK\">4159 River Rd, Valdosta, GA 31605<\/a>.\r\n<\/p>\r\n<p>\r\nSure, you can wait and pay at the door, but that&#8217;ll cost you $10 more.\r\n<p>\r\n -jsq\r\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"We are doing this for our health, and yours, too. And Traci Gosier&#8217;s talk is about health: What is the program? Georgia Working on Health Initiative. The initiative aims to reduce the burden of chronic disease by partnering with Georgia businesses to create and enhance healthy worksite environments and improve employee health. How do they [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[7,43,44,2849],"tags":[2888,2761,2777,3,2922,23,2778,5,2,2760,588,2457,2848,2887,2921],"class_list":["post-4750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-agriculture","category-gardening","category-health","category-sogalo16","tag-6-february-2016","tag-agriculture","tag-gardening","tag-georgia","tag-georgia-working-on-health-initiative","tag-gretchen-quarterman","tag-health","tag-john-s-quarterman","tag-lowndes-county","tag-okra-paradise-farms","tag-opf","tag-pine-grove-middle-school","tag-sogalo16","tag-south-georgia-growing-local-2016","tag-traci-gosier"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Gj0O-1eC","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4750"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4750\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4753,"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4750\/revisions\/4753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}