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Help is just a call awayDo you feel overwhelmed by stress? Are your childrenstruggling with issues at school? Maybe you’re going through adivorce and you’d like to talk with a mental health professionalabout your concerns. Help for these and other commonstruggles of daily life is just a phone call away through theEmployee Assistance Program (EAP), a benefit provided to allNorton Healthcare employees.“Norton Healthcare values its employees and knows thatpersonal challenges need to be addressed before they becomeunmanageable and begin to adversely impact other areas of life,such as work,” said Donna Hilbert, benefits analyst, HumanResources. “The EAP program provides up to six counselingsessions in a year with a mental health provider throughWayne Corp. for you and your family members.”The EAP can help you with a variety of personal andfamily situations, including emotional issues such asgrief, stress or anxiety; relationship/marital issues, eitherindividually or as a couple; and work/life balance struggles.“The services provided through EAP are completelyconfidential,” Hilbert said.Wayne Corp. is staffed with licensed clinicalsocial workers as well as Ph.D.-level providers.Wayne Corp. offers male and female therapists toaccommodate the preferences of each client. Whenyou call for an appointment, the staff will workwith you to schedule your initial assessment withinfour days, or sooner if your schedule permits.You can contact the EAP directly to set upconfidential treatment sessions by calling (502) 451-8262or (800) 441-1327 or visiting WayneCorp.com. There are nofees or co-payments for EAP services.In addition to the sessions, resources ranging frommanaging grief and healthy eating tips to planning a budgetand calculating an auto loan are available on WayneCorp.com.“The additional online resources are tools to help planahead and therefore hopefully relieve some of life’s stress,” saidLaura Hecht, administrative manager with Wayne Corp. “Theonline resources are simple to use, confidential and available24/7.”The website is also accessible through Nsite by selectingthe EAP link under Health & Wellness in Employee Services.You will be asked to create a user login and password in orderto use the site’s tools.–Lynne ChoateCONNECT • July/August 2015 11