Human Resources
Employee Assistance Program
The Employee Assistance Program is a confidential, professional service to help State employees and their family members. With EAP you have access to prepaid, professional services to help you deal with problems before they begin to affect your health, happiness or success.
The primary objective of the Iowa Employee Assistance Program is to provide a resource for resolving problems in order to retain valued employees and to promote their health and well-being.
The Employee Assistance Program is a valuable tool that is available to employees, managers, supervisors and family members. Some of the services your EAP can provide include:
Critical Incident Stress Debriefing
Helps employees cope with situations such as the death or serious injury of a co-worker or resident.
Legal Consultation
Help when you need information about finding and using legal assistance.
Life Coaching Services
Life Coaching services are intended to help you and your family members resolve life issues. You participate in Coaching over the Internet and by telephone instead of having in-person appointments with an EAP counselor. If you use coaching services, you will have a trained life coach, a personal, secure web site, scheduled telephone sessions with your life coach, and the ability to communicate with your life coach through your personal web site. You might find life coaching helpful in dealing with Family Issues, Caring for a Dependent Adult, Couple/Marital Relationships, Grief/Loss, Weight Management, Smoking Cessation, and Work/Life Balance.
These are just a few examples of the types of situations where life coaching might be a good alternative to in-person counseling. Of course, the choice is yours. You can still have face-to-face contact with a counselor if you prefer. Life Coaching services are offered as an alternative to the in-person assessment and brief counseling services that are currently offered.
Financial Consultation
Provides information about budgeting, investing, and other financial topics.
Short Term Counseling
Helps people deal with a wide range of human problems. These might include family, marital, financial, work-related, legal, emotional, or alcohol/drug concerns.
If you or a family member are experiencing personal problems (relationship, emotional, alcohol, drugs, etc), the Employee Assistance Program can help.
The Employee Assistance Program (EAP) provides confidential, professional assistance to help employees and their family members resolve personal problems. See EFR's Privacy Notice. The services provided are assessment, short-term counseling and referral to appropriate community agencies. The services are geared toward reaching people before problems interfere with job performance.
Services for the Iowa Employee Assistance Program are provided by Employee and Family Resources (EFR). Call EFR at 800-327-4692 (toll free) or 515-244-6090 (in Des Moines) or visit their web site at: http://www.efr.org/eap/your_eap/login.php