To request a mandatory referral for an employee, please work with your Human Resources office.

• Formal referrals  are for counseling to deal with job performance or conduct issues that seem to arise from the employee’s personal problems.
• Fit for Duty (FFD)  is a medical examination conducted by a physician to determine if an employee is fit (mentally, or emotionally) to perform essential functions of a job without risking injury to themselves or co-workers.
• Substance Abuse Professional Services (SAPS)  are for employees subject to federal drug and alcohol testing regulations under the Federal Department of Transportation rules.

• Frequently Asked Questions 
• Critical Incident Stress Management (CISM)  is a type of structured group meeting used to support employees who have experienced traumatic events in the workplace.

To schedule ComPsych® GuidanceResources® trainings, please contact your Human Resources Department for the website address and login information. All training requests submitted at least 30 days before the training date are guaranteed.

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• Program Orientation for Supervisors - Register to Attend
• Date: Wednesday, January 15, 2025
• Time: 10:00 am - 11:00 am
• Description: Learn about the Employee Assistance Program (EAP) services that ComPsych® GuidanceResources® provides. Managers and supervisors can use the EAP as a free source for confidential support, expert information, and valuable resources to support their employees when they need it the most.

• Mental Health Awareness for Leaders - Register to Attend
• Date: Thursday, February 13, 2025
• Time: 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
• Description: Managing individuals who may be struggling with stress, anxiety, depression, and other mental health concerns can be a difficult balancing act. Your role is to manage performance and to bring out the best in your workforce, but accomplishing this often requires you to express concern and support when employees struggle emotionally. Managers often feel uncomfortable in this aspect of their role and may lack the important skills of “emotional management.” This course covers ways employees may present their distress and offers insights and strategies on forging supportive empathic alliances within the role of manager. The session also identifies common mistakes managers make in responding to employees in distress and explains communication skills that express support and convey positive expectancy. Participants are also given information on how to refer employees to the Employee Assistance Program.

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This Curriculum of Training was designed for Managers and Supervisor to participate in so that they learn more about the EAP program through first-hand exposure and then pass information along to their staff. Managers and Supervisors can now register and view the following recorded webinars.

Managing Staff Through Stressful Situations
This workshop helps you plan for the expected and the unexpected and provides practical tools for dealing with both positive and negative employee behaviors during stressful times.

Mental Health Awareness for Leaders
This course covers ways employees may present their distress and offers insights and strategies on forging supportive empathic alliances within the role of manager. The session also identifies common mistakes managers make in responding to employees in distress and explains communication skills that express support and convey positive expectancy. Participants are also given information on how to refer employees to the Employee Assistance Program.

Preventing Employee Burnout
Burnout is a growing concern for many employers, as it can impact morale, employee retention, work productivity and more. In this session, we describe the signals that leaders can watch for and introduce strategies to help them prevent burnout from impacting the workforce.

Self-Care Tips for Managers
Stressful situations, whether from internal or external sources, are inevitable in organizations. For some managers, this may lead to over-extending themselves with minimal time for self-care. This training offers tools to help managers cope with stress and thrive in their organizations.

Mindfulness: Being Present in Your Work and Life
The idea of mindfulness or being mindful is complete engagement in the present moment. It is a state where you are not thinking, reflecting, judging, or deciding, but are instead simply experiencing the things currently in your available experience. In many ways people are largely unaware of our present moment, and often operate on “auto-pilot” to some degree. The auto-pilot mode is our default mode of operation. Even when we find ourselves in a pleasurable quiet moment we automatically begin to daydream about others, plan/worry about the future or ruminate about the past. We miss living in the present moment because we fail to pay attention to it. Mindfulness is about waking up to the present moment and paying attention to our experience. Learning mindfulness is not difficult; however, it is difficult to remember to do it. This training discusses mindfulness and how to incorporate its practice into your life.

Where are you going? Goal Setting for Personal and Professional Success
Goal setting gives you long-term vision and short-term motivation. The process of setting goals allows you to choose where you want to go in your personal life as well as your professional career. A life without goals is like a road trip without a map. By knowing exactly what you want to achieve, you are less likely to get lost, and you will be happier and less frustrated along the way.