In today’s society, many of us experience a great deal of pressure. This pressure can have a negative effect on job performance. By providing easy access to professional counselling, you can help your employees resolve their problems – often before they start to affect quality of work.

An Employee Assistance program, or EAP, is a confidential information, counselling and consultation service for you, your employees and family members. Our primary purpose is to offer support in dealing with stressful situations that may interfere with work and personal life.

EAPs have long been endorsed by Unions, Management and Business Owners. Most successful businesses view EAP as being of mutual benefit to both the organization as a whole and to employees at all levels.

Our EAP is completely confidential and has been designed to provide you and your employees with direct access to experienced caring professionals.

Our staff of professional, experienced counsellors offer a wide range of expertise including:

- substance abuse, addictions and recovery
- parent – child conflict / management issues
- anger and stress management
- career transitioning
- grief and loss
- children’s mental health
- marital therapy
- childhood trauma
- anxiety and mood disorders
- depression
- conduct disorders
- relationship counselling
- addicts and family members
- children (adults and youth) of substance abusers
- women’s issues
- communication skills development
- credit and debt management
- personal safety counselling for children and adolescents
- financial planning

Our program offers centralized intake with a twenty- four hour contact policy.

Focus Workplace clients also have the option of access to our twenty- four hour a day On-Line Mental Health Screening Program. Often the first step in solving your problems is the hardest one to take. From the privacy of your own home, you can access our On-Line Mental Health Screening. Studies show that as many as 80% of employees who access the on-line screening, seek further assistance.

Full support is available to both the employer and the employee; in EAP training, literature, display material and more.

For more information, contact Focus Workplace Ltd.

Focus Workplace Ltd., in conjunction with one of the North America 's leading mental health organizations, offers a customized, on-line mental health screening program. This confidential screening promotes early detection and intervention of depression, Bipolar Disorder, alcohol problems and eating disorders.

The program currently serves over 10 million people representing national and international Fortune 500 companies.

Employers undertake the program to help reduce costs associated with undiagnosed mental illnesses, and to promote appropriate and timely access to benefits and health providers.

•  A recent study revealed the economic burden of depression in the workplace to be most costly due to “presenteeism”. Depressed workers on the job with reduced productivity costs US employers 44.1 billion dollars annually. (“Cost of Lost Productive Work Time among US Workers with Depression,” JAMA, June 18, – Vol. 289, No. 23 pp. 3135-3144)

•  While over 85% of those who take our Interactive Screenings are not in treatment at the time of the call, 88% of those who score positive indicate they will seek treatment.

To find out more about this program please contact Focus Workplace Ltd.

Focus Workplace Ltd. Web site provides a link that allows you the opportunity to take a screening test for depression/manic-depression, alcohol problems, eating disorders and anxiety/post-traumatic stress disorders. Since people can suffer from these disorders at the same time, or one can cause symptoms that seem like another, you may want to take all of the screenings offered. Each screening will take between 4 to 5 minutes to complete.

At the end of each screening you will receive an immediate result that can be printed and taken to a clinician or healthcare provider for further evaluation. A screening test is not a substitute for a complete evaluation but it can help you learn if your symptoms are consistent with depression/manic-depression, an alcohol problem, an eating disorder or anxiety/post-traumatic stress disorder and where to call for help.

This program is designed for individuals aged 17 and above.

The online screening is completely confidential. We do not collect any unique identifying information such as names, email addresses or IP addresses. Focus Workplace Ltd., your employer nor the sponsoring organization can view your individual results.

If you have received your password please click on the following links to proceed with your screening.

Take the Depression / Manic-Depression Screening

Take the Alcohol Screening

Take the Eating Disorders Screening

Take the Anxiety/Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Screening