Benefits open enrollment for your organization is right around the corner. And with the turbulent times of today you may be wondering how you can make your open enrollment process during the COVID-19 outbreak safe and successful. The extraordinary challenges…
Dealing With the Times 2020 has been a year of unprecedented trials and stressors that have left us all scrambling in our professional and personal lives to find compromises and solutions that address risks and concerns. It’s more important than…
Who We Are - Valley Schools Did you know that Valley Schools is one of Arizona’s largest employee benefits consulting organizations for schools? Serving over 35,000 employee and dependent lives for benefits consulting and plan administration, we have been leaders…
This article was previously published in the AASBO Edge By Bill Munch, CPPO, CPPB Our new reality includes an emphasis on living in the online world as we cope with trying to remain compliant with the School District Procurement…
“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel”. - Maya Angelou Prescribe Kindness for Better Connections With the negativity infiltrating our media sources…
Open Enrollment Messaging COVID-19 is disturbing public and private employer and employee operations across the board and the country. The extraordinary challenges and questions posed by COVID-19 has created a storm of emotion around health coverage. If your open enrollment…
Feeling In Control Since the coronavirus began spreading across the world, we’ve undoubtedly learned a lot about the lengths to which people will go for a roll of toilet paper. While the social distancing guidelines were extended by the White…
Technology continues to advance our access to care in the form of telemental services. What Are Telemental Services? Like telemedicine that allows members to access practitioners to remedy acute care situations such as colds, rashes, or minor infections, telemental health…
Each month our WellStyles™ team brings you highlights of our 7 pillars of wellness and tips on how to improve yourself from head to toe, inside and out and on building a better YOU! This month is centered around building…
An ice cream sundae just isn’t the same without the shiny cherry, and while medical benefits are employee’s #1 priority, voluntary benefits make the complete options package more appealing. As your full-service, benefits consultant, Valley Schools is here to help…