Business Hours: 8 am to 4:30 pm, Monday - Friday
Phone: 802-656-2100 Fax: 802-656-8456
466 South Prospect Street, Burlington, VT 05405
Staff
Joel Shapiro, Director
Diane Freiheit, Counselor
Andrea Boulanger, Administrative
Assistant
Mission
The Employee Assistance Program (EAP) protects the University's investment
in human resources by providing confidential assistance on issues that could
impact the health, welfare, or work performance of our faculty and staff.
Services
The EAP is designed to assist faculty, staff, administrators, and their immediate
family members with persistent problems that might affect job performance.
Issues such as physical, mental, or emotional illness; financial, marital,
or family distress; alcoholism; drug abuse; legal problems; work-related
concerns; or other matters can be effectively treated if they are accurately
identified and referral is made to an appropriate method of care.
- The EAP provides a significant contribution to the University's organizational
performance by imparting a message of institutional caring and a humanistic
attitude. First, the program aims to reduce the distress of individuals.
Side effects of individuals in distress such as poor job performance,
poor quality of work, and absenteeism can be markedly decreased. In
turn this decreases the disruptive effects of the distressed individual
on their colleagues and workplace and reduces the financial cost of
impaired job performance.
- The EAP acts as a consultant to supervisors, directors, chairpersons,
and deans who are dealing with distressed individuals. This includes
mediation efforts, consultation to resolve departmental issues, morale,
and overall organizational performance.
- The EAP frequently works in conjunction with Human Resources, Employee
Relations, AA/EO, and other departments on campus to coordinate services
to employees and sponsor additional programming to provide training,
education, wellness, and prevention to address problems before they
affect job performance.
- Finally, the EAP serves as a protection to the University in accordance
with the Civil Rights Rehabilitation Act of 1973 and the Drug Free Workplace
Act of 1988. The EAP is the one office on campus where employees who
believe they have been sexually harassed can receive confidential counseling
and assistance without a formal investigation necessarily being initiated.
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