If this is an urgent matter, please contact the 24-hour
NY State EAP helpline at 1-800-822-0244.
What is EAP?
The New York State Employee Assistance Program is a confidential assessment and referral service for New York State government employees and their family members who need assistance with personal problems or concerns that may be affecting their work performance or overall well being. EAP is a program designed to assist employees with numerous problems including but not limited to parent-child problems, financial concerns, elder care issues, alcohol and substance abuse, marital problems, depression/anxiety, stress, and more.
Email: eap@cobleskill.edu
Location: Alumni Hall B2
Betsy Miller
518-255-5531
millerel@cobleskill.edu
Mary Irving
518-255-5126
irvingmj@cobleskill.edu
What to expect if I contact EAP?
Confidentiality
Confidentiality is essential and critical to EAP.
No records of contact are kept. Any person who voluntarily seeks out EAP support, assessment and referral services is assured that confidentiality is maintained. Even if referred by a supervisor for a work or personal concern, no information can be released without the permission of the employee.
Limits to confidentiality are:
where there is reasonable belief that an employee's conduct places him/her or another
person in imminent threat of bodily harm;
where there is a reasonable belief to suspect that child abuse has recently been or
will be committed. This includes physical, emotional and psychological abuse and neglect;
when information is required to be disclosed by law, Executive Order, or agency work
rule.
EAP is a neutral, non-biased resource.
Employees who express concerns about workplace issues should expect to receive a non-biased and neutral response to those complaints. EAP will not take sides or advocate on behalf of labor or management when providing resources or referrals.
Instead, EAP will:
This is done to ensure EAP's success.
Participation in the EAP referral process or in events is voluntary. Referrals can be made by co-workers, supervisors, unions, or human resources, but an employee must initiate the first contact.
A supervisor cannot force an employee to meet with EAP.
The UCLA Mindful app has guided meditations on recording in multiple languages (see below), a meditation timer, weekly meditation classes, and virtual events. It doesn't have all the wide range of resources but it's a good option, in that there's some tools that can be practiced regularly, even if it's the same audio it may help to build it as a routine!
Guided Meditations Audio
If this is an urgent referral matter, please contact the 24-hour NY State EAP helpline at 1-800-822-0244.
1-800-310-1160
Life Line is a local hotline which provides telephone counseling, suicide and sexual
assault intervention, referral resources, etc.
1-800-DRUG-HELP or 1-800-662-HELP
Both numbers provide information and referral regarding alcohol, tobacco, and other
drugs.
1-800-342-AIDS or 1-800-822-7422
The first number is the Center for Disease Control's National AIDS Hotline provides
information about transmission of HIV, safe, sex, and referrals for counseling and
testing; the second is Project Inform's HIV/AIDS Treatment Hotline.
1-800--CUT
This hotline is sponsored by the group Self Abuse Finally Ends (S.A.F.E.), and it
provides information about self-injurious behavior.
1-800-799-7233
The National Domestic Violence Hotline