Tools to train your mind, tackle stress, and thrive!
Mental and emotional well-being are essential for your overall health, happiness, and quality of life. If you're in an unhealthy state of mind, it’s hard to focus on your personal and work obligations and live your best life. Hoos Well offers evidence-backed resources that can help you manage stress, rise to meet life challenges, and thrive.
Hoos Well provides employees and spouses enrolled in the UVA Health Plan or UPG Anthem Health Plan with free access to eMLife, an online mindfulness platform with resources that you can apply to everyday life to promote health and happiness, manage stress and anxiety, and enhance focus and overall well-being. The eMLife website and mobile apps include live & interactive classes offered many times each day, hundreds of hours of on-demand mindfulness content, and immersive, multi-week programs that focus on specific health situations & well-being topics.
In partnership with UVA’s Faculty and Employee Assistance Program (FEAP), Hoos Well offers monthly webinars to support your emotional well-being, help you manage stress, and thrive. Enrollees in the UVA Health Plan or UPG Anthem Health Plan can earn $25 in rewards for participating live in up to four of these educational seminars each year.
Healthy Minds @Work is an evidence-based, customizable program designed to fit easily into your daily life through an award-winning mobile app with podcast-style lessons and guided meditations. You'll learn to train your mind to be calm & focused, strengthen interpersonal relationships, decrease stress & emotional reactivity, and learn skills to thrive in challenging moments. 70% of users report significantly lower depression, anxiety, and stress. Open to all UVA employees and their spouses.
At times, life’s difficulties may seem a little overwhelming, and we don’t know where to turn. Asking for help is often difficult, but it is the first step in resolving the problem or finding effective ways to cope. FEAP offers all employees and family members free, confidential consultation and short-term, solution-focused counseling for a variety of personal issues and common concerns. FEAP consultants are familiar with the various resources in the community, and if an outside referral is needed, your FEAP consultant will recommend professionals who have expertise in your area of concern.
Engage in reward-eligible educational modules in the Hoos Well portal, provided by Personify Health. Topics include reducing stress, choosing a new mindset, finding your focus, making time for play, managing your mood, and recognizing and overcoming burnout.
Participants in the UVA and UPG Health Plans have unlimited access certified Health Coaches, who can work with you 1:1 by phone to help you understand the results of your health assessment, establish personalized well-being goals, and develop a strategy to achieve them. Experienced Personify Health Coaches can assist in addressing many topics, including reducing stress, anxiety & depression, and sleeping well.
Hoos Well, in partnership with FEAP and HR Benefits, was honored to be named on behalf of UVA as one of the winners of the inaugural 2022 Carolyn C. Mattingly Award for Mental Health in the Workplace, for promoting the positive mental health of employees through policies and programs, including flexible work schedules and the Healthy Minds @Work program.
At UVA, the talent and dedication of our workforce is exceptional. This recognition is a terrific affirmation of the importance of the programming provided by Hoos Well, UVA HR, and FEAP to support our employees’ mental health along with their physical health. Jennifer (J.J.) Wagner Davis, EVP and COO
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