BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//ChamberMaster//Event Calendar 2.0//EN METHOD:PUBLISH X-PUBLISHED-TTL:P3D REFRESH-INTERVAL:P3D CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20200610T170000Z DTEND:20200610T180000Z X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:FALSE SUMMARY:Connecting The Dots: EAP Program Overview for enrolled members DESCRIPTION:The Employee Assistance Program (EAP) is a company paid benefit that offers short term counseling and work/life balance benefits to employees and their dependents. The Traverse Connect Program Overview session provides a look at the critical need for behavioral health interventions and highlights the expertise of New Directions and its EAP to champion employee well-being. It can be as beneficial for your business as it is for those who have access to it. For your businesses\, an EAP can help:\n\n Improve Productivity\n Increase employee retention\n Reduce ongoing health care costs\n Reduce recruiting\, hiring and training costs\n Minimize legal liability\n Provide convenient customer education\n\n \n\nEAP is a compassionate\, empathetic and confidential way that works for you and your employees.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPhil Gray MS\, LMFT\, Manager of Account Strategy\, is responsible for service delivery to client company accounts and facilitation of business development. Phil has a Masters degree in Marriage and Family Therapy from Northern Illinois University and is licensed in the State of Missouri as a Marriage and Family Therapist. He worked for seven years in the counseling field prior to coming to New Directions. In addition to his clinical experience\, Phil has served as the co-director of an outpatient counseling clinic in Grand Rapids\, MI. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAlejandra Juarez\, Sales Executive\, New Directions Behavioral Health\n\n\n\nAlejandra Juarez is a sales executive for New Directions Behavioral Health\, where she is responsible for selling the company?s suite of products including the Employee Assistance Program\, Student Services Program\, Managed Behavioral Health and Performance Solutions in Florida and Michigan. \n\n \n\nAlejandra is deeply passionate about treating the whole person ? integrating behavioral and physical healthcare ? to improve one?s health.\n\n \n\nPrior to joining New Directions in 2016\, Alejandra spent eight years with Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas as a group medical consultant\, helping employers across 40 counties manage their benefit costs and build wellness initiatives to meet their corporate needs.\n\n \n\nAlejandra has a Bachelor of Arts (BA) from Kansas State University and currently lives in Detroit\, Michigan. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:The Employee Assistance Program (EAP) is a company paid benefit that offers short term counseling \;and work/life balance \;benefits to employees and their dependents. The Traverse Connect Program Overview session provides a look at the critical need for behavioral \;health interventions and highlights \;the expertise of New Directions and its EAP to champion employee well-being. It can be as beneficial for your business as it is for those who have access to it. For your businesses\, an EAP can help:\n