by: Samantha Tipler

Klamath County School district, with its nearly 850 employees and 6,500 students, is now a Blue Zones Project Approved worksite. Leaders from the KCSD Staff Wellness Team and Blue Zones Project Klamath Falls celebrated with a ribbon cutting at the May 17 school board meeting.

“The bottom line for any worksite is that healthy employees produce more and cost less,” said Blue Zones Project Community Program Manager Jessie DuBose. She is also a Henley High graduate and her children are third-generation Henley students. “Becoming a Blue Zones Project Approved worksite means that the Klamath County School District has implemented enough best practices around wellbeing to hit a tipping point where they will start where they will start to see those values played out.”

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