Thursday, April 28, 2016

EAP Utilization Hack #20: Make and Rotate New EAP Posters Every Six Weeks

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Increasing EAP utilization is about visibility, promotion, and efforts you take to keep your program "top of mind." This means emp...
Monday, April 18, 2016

EAP Utilization Hack #21: Do EAP Refresher Training with Supervisors

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Many good employee assistance programs have closed down, consolidated, or been turned into 800 hotlines over the past several years. Will...
Thursday, April 7, 2016

Blog Note Update: EAPs and Emergency Room Relationships

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I was talking the other day about improving EAP utilization and helping more employees with substance abuse problems by developing relation...
Tuesday, April 5, 2016

EAP Utilization Hack #22: Get an EAP Newsletter and Distribute It Monthly--NOT Quarterly

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You may have heard me say this before but a quarterly EAP newsletter is a sheepish frequency. You won't see much impact from a quarterly...
Monday, March 21, 2016

EAP Utilization Hack #23: Create a Video to Orient Employees and Family Members

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If you don't have an EAP orientation video on your Web site because it sounds too expensive or complicated, let me give you the story on...
Tuesday, March 15, 2016

Improving EAP Utilization Hack #24: Engage Hospital Emergency Rooms to Refer Employees

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If you could sit in an emergency room for a week, you would discover that about 3.5% of admissions would be alcohol-use/abuse/ism related an...
Wednesday, March 9, 2016

EAP Utilization Hack #25: Educate Employees with a Family Empowerment Model of Alcoholism Intervention

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I phoned the National Association of Social Workers about 20 years ago and spoke with the General Counsel (top dog attorney) about doing int...