Promoting use of the USPS employee assistance program
The USPS provides employee assistance to more than 700,000 workers and more than a million of their family members. Among the services it offers to identify and assist people with alcohol problems are:
- Confidential screening and counseling
- Worksite awareness programs
- Web-based information, referrals to treatment
- Recovery support for workers in treatment
- Union/Supervisor training to spot on the job problems
- Consultation and support to supervisors and union representatives
If employees know these services are available they are more likely to use them. The USPS offers a variety of resources for workers, union representatives and supervisors/managers to promote its EAP, including:
- a toolkit for developing a communications plan
- information about best practices
- samples of promotional materials already being used successfully in other districts
- video commercials that can be downloaded
- a calendar of activities
Go to www.foh.dhhs.gov to access these resources and find out what some USPS EAP Advisory Committees have done to promote the USPS EAP. Click "logon" and use "advisorycommittee" for your username and "USPS" for your password.
