Choose Healthy Now Healthy Vending Project
Healthy vending is part of a worksite wellness program that can impact employee health through changes to the food environment. Worksite wellness programs have proven effective at improving the health of employees, lowering overall health care costs, reducing absenteeism, and improving employee morale and productivity.
In partnership with the Department of Human Services’ Division of Vocational Rehabilitation-Ho‘opono Vending Program, CDPHPD launched the Choose Healthy Now project in six state and federal government vending sites on Oahu in the summer of 2014. The project is now in the process of expanding to other sites throughout the state.
Choose Healthy Now increases consumer choice by expanding access to healthy snack and drink options. Stickers and print materials in participating snack shops identify healthier items as those labeled with green or yellow stickers. Posters, e-mail reminders, newsletters, taste testing events and small incentive items remind employees to “choose healthy” when visiting these venues.
The Department of Health would like to congratulate the following snack shops for being the first to adopt the Choose Healthy Now campaign:
| Queen Liliuokalani Building 1390 Miller Street Honolulu, HI 96813 |
Ho‘opono Center for the Blind 1901 Bachelot Street Honolulu, HI 96817 |
| Downtown Post Office 335 Merchant Street Honolulu HI 96813 |
State Health Department Building 1250 Punchbowl Street Honolulu, HI 96813 |
| Prince Kuhio Federal Building 300 Ala Moana Boulevard Honolulu, Hawaii 96850 |
Matsunaga Building – Tripler AMC 1 Jarrett White Road Honolulu, HI 96859 |
| Hawaii State Capitol 415 S. Beretania Street Honolulu, Hawaii 96813 |
Joint Base Pearl Harbor Hickam Annex Whitmore Village, HI 96786 |
| State Office Tower 235 S. Beretania Street, Room 201 Honolulu, Hawaii 96813 |
Keelikolani Building 830 Punchbowl Street Honolulu, HI 96816 |
| West Hawaii Civic Center 74-5044 Ane Keohokalole Highway Kailua-Kona, HI 96740 |
Kapolei Hale 1000 Uluohia Street Kapolei, HI 96707 |
For more information about worksite wellness, please visit: https://www.cdc.gov/nccdphp/dnpao/hwi/.
