The EAP (Employee Assistance Program) provides confidential assessments, referrals, and monitoring to employees for such personal matters as family and marital relations, legal or financial difficulties, substance abuse, and other problems. The EAP has proven to be an important and successful health personnel service for all county employees and municipal employees in nine towns. During 1999, substantial numbers of county employees who worked for the court system became state employees. Efforts are now under way to obtain funding to serve this court employee population based on an appeal to maintain services from both management and line staff.
Three major classes of referrals for the EAP include substance abuse, psychological or family, and legal. During 1999, 17% of the referrals were for substance abuse, and 83% were for other problems. Seventeen percent of referrals were made by supervisors, and the remainder were self-referrals.
Since 1995, the EAP has administered a record-keeping system for persons who have a commercial driver's license, as required by regulations pertaining to mandatory drug and alcohol testing requirements of the US Department of Transportation.
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