Anton Counseling & Health Psychology
    Employee Assistance is the work organization's resource
    to enhance employee and workplace effectiveness
    through prevention, identification and resolution of
    personal and productivity issues.
    Employee Assistance Professionals Association

Employee Assistance Programs are your
organization's best resource for enhancing employee and
workplace effectiveness through prevention, identification
and resolution of personal and productivity issues. Over
82% of companies with 500+ employees have an EAP,
and 62% of business owners with just 25 or more
employees utilize an EAP for their workplace.  

In fact, EAP’s are the
single most effective mechanism for
recovering the job performance and career of employees
who develop substance abuse drug problems, providing a
70% return to effective work performance.

An effective EAP is a
key workplace benefit, not an
insurance add-on. Don’t be fooled by healthcare sellers or
brokers who offer a weak counseling benefit or 1-800
referral service and call it an EAP. It may be cheap to buy,
but poor service costs more in the long run.
"Just as every physical
injury carries with it
identifiable, unwanted
and, to my mind,
fully
preventable business
costs,
and if compassion
isn’t enough, we have a
self-interest in
restoring
productivity to its highest
possible level if
it is
being
constrained by a
mental illness.

Former Syncrude CEO, Eric Newell
What is Employee Assistance? (EAP)