Loup Basin Public Health Department

Here’s a wellness challenge that is FREE and will encourage you to improve your health and personal finances. 

UNL Extension is supporting a new online Small Steps to Health and Wealth™ (SSHW) Challenge event called “SSHW Fall 2010 Challenge.”  This free six-week program, open to anyone who enrolls online, will be held from Sunday, October 3, through Saturday, November 13.  Prizes will be awarded for participants who report the highest point totals.  

To sign up for the SSHW Challenge, follow the “Challenges” link on the Small Steps to Health and Wealth™ Web site at www.smallsteps.unl.edu.  After going to the national challenge you will need to set up a user name and password and download a simple one-page user’s guide with instructions about how to proceed. Enroll in the Challenge titled “SSHW Fall 2010 Challenge.”

The SSHW Challenge is part of Small Steps to Health and Wealth™, a national Cooperative Extension program developed to motivate Americans to take action to simultaneously improve their health and personal finances.
As participants enter their personal data, they will see their point totals for each day of the week and for each of the ten activities described above.  They’ll also see a bar graph that compares their personal progress to the average scores of everyone else participating in the Challenge.  Daily motivational messages will also be provided to participants. Paper tracking forms can be downloaded to keep track of daily activities until they are entered online.

Doing even one of the ten recommended daily practices is a great way to get started on the path to better health and improved financial security.  The more SSHW Challenge activities that are performed by participants, the better. To enroll in “SSHW Fall 2010 Challenge,” visit the Nebraska site at www.smallsteps.unl.edu or http://njaes.rutgers.edu/sshw/