Why Should a Small Business Have an EAP?

For the Same Reasons Big Business does...

but mostly because People Problems are Bigger for Small Business

• Decreased performance
• Poor productivity
• Negativity in the workplace
• Repeated absence due to personal issues
• Loss prevention
  
• Low morale
• Accidents
• Intoxication on the job
• Domestic violence affects work
• No business is immune from human problems, regardless of their size.
• Saving a good employee can save you time, money and personal investment.

While smaller companies have fewer employers and therefore lower utilization of an EAP program, small employers with employee problems may suffer the effects of  those problems more. Decreased performance and productivity will hurt a smaller employer’s bottom line faster.  Workplace negativity can spread like wildfire in small company and if employees leave on masse, a small company could be damaged beyond repair.

Sometimes employees need help with their families, their children, their relationships/marriages, with a wide range of problems.We understand. We can help employees deal with a wide range of problems such as stress overload; grief; job problems; alcohol, drug abuse or other addictions; depression, anxiety, parenting or step family issues and other concerns. We can also help you enhance your self-esteem or explore ways of bettering yourself. No problem is too small... or too large. 

"Sometimes EMPLOYERS need help!"

EAP FOR STRESSFUL EVENTS IN THE WORKPLACE

• Traumatic events can range from a workplace accident or death of an employee to a natural disaster. These events can lead to a variety of emotional and psychological difficulties for those involved.
• It can also impact workplace relationships as well as productivity. When employees and managers learn to respond in a healthy way, it is more likely that individuals, as well as the organization, will recover and return to a state of productivity and health.


We Provide Management/Supervisory Training and Employee Orientations

• Out staff come to your worksite and provide training to help managers and supervisors use the EAP as a management tool.
• We train your managers about the EAP and how to use it as a management tool.
• We also provide training on Reasonable Suspicion, Sexual Harrassment, Anger Management, People Skills and others.
• Our philosophy is to educate and support. We provide telephone consultations in dealing with difficult situations as available.

Service satisfaction

• Perhaps the most gratifying statistic about our company is that our client and user satisfaction surveys have resoundingly endorsed our efforts.
  
• Our client employer satisfaction and renewal rate exceeds 95% and our employee satisfaction rate is 97%. We don’t let this make us complacent though – we are continually refining, enhancing and expanding the range of services that we offer our clients and members.

 Employee Assistance Programs for Your Small Business

Call Us Today!

(866) 903-6000

info@concernedassociates.com

We are ready to help you with your small business, by helping your employees, their families and by helping your management staff deal with difficult people problems.

What We Do: Our staff consists of caring individuals who are certified counselors. We'll offer professional support and direction towards resolving problems or concerns. We'll listen and help employees sort things out. We can also help by referring to other resources if necessary. We also provide consultation to managers and supervisors.

For Small Business Only

CONCERNED associates provides EAP services for small business firms. (500 employees or less). We can design your EAP to address your company’s individual needs, for a safe and productive workforce. Our programs have a record of enhancing client performance and improving productivity. We can help add to your bottom line by reducing absenteeism, employee turnover and behavioral health care claims.

OUR EAP Programs are SPECIFIC-SMALL BUSINESS Programs

• We offer a full service EAP as a partnership between the EAP, a company’s management, human resources and it’s employees.

• The key components of a full service EAP are management training and consulting, employee EAP orientation and face to face counseling with an EAP counselor.
• The EAP trains the company’s management to quickly recognize job performance problems and apply effective intervention techniques which motivates employees to use the EAP services.
• The employees and their families have access to professional counseling to help them resolve personal problems that affect job performance.

EAP is a Solid Investment

The National Institute of Mental Health documents that at any time, 20% of the national employee population is having personal problems and could use help from a professional counselor. The NIMH further documents that 10% of the employee population has serious problems that impact their ability to perform their job at an acceptable level. Our belief is that this 10% of the population should always be seen and evaluated by a professional EAP counselor. http://www.nimh.nih.gov/index.shtml

In order for a company to maximize it’s EAP dollars, and achieve the return on investment cited below, the program must utilize all the components of the traditional work based EAP. ( i.e. management training, assisting with employee performance problems, employee orientation, and professional EAP counseling).

Implementing an effective EAP often produces a return of $7 to $15 per dollar invested. You can expect actual savings on behavioral health care insurance claims of $2 to $5 for each dollar of EAP services.

Employee assistance programs that prevent Employment Practices Liability and loss prevention may far exceed health insurance cost containment.  According to  Dan Fuerst,  www.workexcel.com, the average jury award for wrongful termination is $500,000 with out of court settlements averaging $100,000.  The low cost of a fee per employee based program is so minimal compared to the potential risk employers face by being sued by their employers.

Feel free to call or email for a free consultation and quote.

info@concernedassociates.com

866-903-6000