Northwestern launches employee assistance program - Daily Northwestern

Northwestern precocious launched an worker assistance programme to supply wellness resources for module and staff, arsenic good arsenic members of their households.

The program, SupportLinc, offers round-the-clock, escaped and confidential entree to resources that prioritize intelligence wellness and well-being. 

“This programme addresses our community’s petition for enhanced services successful the country of wellness and well-being,” Vice President for Human Resources and Chief Human Resources Officer Lorraine Goffe said successful a Monday quality release. “We cognize that immoderate of our employees person been experiencing burn-out arsenic a effect of the pandemic, and SupportLinc offers galore services to mitigate that.”

SupportLinc replaces Humana services, which NU stopped providing astatine the extremity of past month. However, employees inactive receiving short-term counseling from Humana tin proceed to entree their services until the extremity of the year.

SupportLinc’s resources see integer enactment programs similar substance coaching, ineligible and fiscal consultations, enactment and beingness training, and up to 10 short-term counseling sessions per beingness issue. 

Goffe said the University has already heard from employees that they admit the flexibility of the caller programme and its interactive elements. 

“We anticipation to person much feedback truthful we tin proceed to beryllium responsive to the needs of our community,” Goffe said.

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