"Over 28 years of reliable EAP & Behavioral Healthcare Services"
Employee Assistance Programs Experience and Adaptability
As one of the nation's oldest EAPs, we know the importance of retaining core principles, while concurrently adapting to ever changing workplace demands and expectations. We pride ourselves in continuing to provide the kind of robust in-person evaluation and counseling services that help companies control healthcare costs in a manner that is compatible with the most recent rules pertaining to the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act of 2008. We know how to skillfully design and implement the assessment, counseling, emergency response, consultation, wellness, training, program promotion and reporting functions that build the foundation of a successful and enduring EAP. We believe that is why many of our client companies and organizations have been with us for over a quarter of a century. We also know that some organizations want an expanded menu of options that extend beyond traditional core EAP services. Consequently, as a comprehensive employee assistance and behavioral consultation firm, we offer enriched web based services, twenty four hour telephonic counseling with masters level coverage, enhanced work/life and legal assistance tools with case management, expanded organizational analysis and management consultation functions, extensive education and training programs, ongoing applied research and substance abuse professional (SAP) services, among other options. Furthermore, we realize the importance of interweaving emergent technologies into our consultation, training, measurement and reporting processes. We are a learning organization committed to the proposition of helping your organization productively adapt to ever changing times, while also remaining grounded in your core principles and mission. For Companies with Unions
When a company works in tandem with a union labor force, it is important that both the company and the union have confidence in the experience and fairness of their employee assistance program. For over twenty seven years, Yost EAP has worked with several companies that have vibrant unions. We are experienced in labor-management relations as related to EAP and provide union training and ongoing consultation with union officials as an integral part of our programming. Typically, union officials are also included in the EAP planning and development process. We have also been quite successful in working with key union liaisons who take a preventative approach in helping to direct troubled employees into the EAP.
Program Focus
Employees are the single most valuable resource of any organization. Employee personal problems have a measurable impact on both their family lives and their work performance. Without assistance, the problems that workers experience are expensive for the employer. More than 70% of individuals diagnosed with a substance abuse or mental health problem are employed. Alcohol and substance abuse problems alone are estimated to cost U.S. businesses in excess of $100 billion annually. The estimated cost for depression is approximately $83 billion. These are costs that may be buried in health insurance and workers' compensation premiums, poor productivity, on-the-job accidents, inefficiency, poor workplace morale, absenteeism, tardiness and personnel turnover.
Providing EAP help for managers, supervisors, and individual employees increases the organization's productivity while decreasing its human resource risks and loss exposure. Policy consultation, supervisory training, union training, employee education, and professionally implemented counseling services improve the health, well being and effectiveness of the entire organization.
In the face of escalating healthcare costs, an employee assistance program is a prudent cost-containment strategy. In job retention, performance improvement, and healthcare savings alone, Yost Programs have returned to our clients many times the relatively few dollars invested in them.
The focus of Yost Employee Assistance Programs is on enhancing employee health, productivity and resiliency. We work with both employees and family members who have personal problems that may ultimately affect the employees workplace performance. Issues may include, but are not limited to, personal or job related stress, work/life issues, alcohol and substance abuse, psychological problems, marital and family issues, vocational and career concerns, financial problems, legal problems, parenting and childcare issues, as well as geriatric health and placement decisions.
Program Objectives In designing programs to meet your company's needs we strive to fulfill the following objectives: To provide comprehensive, professional counseling and work/life services for the purpose of assisting employees and family members in identifying and resolving personal problems, thereby helping to improve health, morale and work performance.
To assist managers, supervisors and labor officials in helping employees regain and maintain satisfactory job performance.
To help companies decrease costs and risk exposure associated with health care benefit utilization, workers' compensation, productivity, turnover, theft and security breaches.
To maximize results by gaining management and labor support of employee assistance programming.
To consistently educate the workforce in each client company, regarding the impact of behavioral health upon worker productivity and family functioning. To provide concise and comprehensible ongoing feedback to client companies in the form of timely utilization reports, outcome study results and summaries of cost/benefit analysis.
Yost Experience Promotes Success:
AS AN INVESTMENT. Yost EAP promotes performance improvement, medical cost-containment, and overall workforce well being.
BY REDUCING ORGANIZATIONAL LOSSES. Costs are controlled by effectively addressing risks associated with long term disability, substance abuse, excessive absenteeism, turnover, worker's compensation claims, unemployment benefit claims, and inappropriate or extensive health care utilization.
BY PROVIDING A PROFESSIONAL SERVICE. Yost EAP is managed and staffed by specialists who understand and serve diverse employee groups among different client organizations. These specialists advocate for the employee and the organization, and not any particular treatment specialist or agency.
AS A JOINT VENTURE. Expectations and objectives of Yost EAPs are designed to fit the organization's particular culture.
BY PROVIDING ACCOUNTABILITY. Yost EAPs ensure accountability through performance monitoring and quality assurance audits.
Our Record of Achievement Employers rely each day on the people who come to the workplace to perform with reliability, consistency and competency. They know that their greatest asset is their workforce. They also know that employee performance in today's diverse workforce can be affected by many different circumstances that occur both inside and outside of the workplace. Yost Incorporated has a long record of helping organizations improve employee morale, productivity and safety through a wide range of behavioral health and consultation services. Our employee assistance programs have provided high quality services for over twenty seven years.
Experience can make a difference when an organization remains focused on their mission. To learn more about how our experience may help your organization fulfill its mission, give us a call at 1-800-835-5012 or 1-315-451-5164.
