Workplace Screening & Brief Intervention: The BIG (Brief Intervention Group) Initiative

To realize the full value of their investment in Employee Assistance Program (EAP), employers should attend to the opportunities to drive down health and productivity costs by encouraging their EAPs to engage and treat workers who drink in unhealthy ways. Nationwide, EAPs engage only about one worker in twenty who has a serious alcohol problem. The lost productivity, absenteeism, excess emergency department and hospital use by the other 19 out of 20 workers with alcohol problems who are not treated add $61 billion (or approximately$200 for every man, woman and child in the United States) to the nation\u27s health care bill. American business absorbs much of this cost in the higher premiums it pays for employer-based health insurance as a result of unidentified and untreated alcohol and drug problems

Implementation of EAPs

This Research Note describes how to effectively implement employee assistance program services in an organization

Alcohol Screening and Brief Intervention in the Workplace: Year One Final Report

The Network of Employers for Traffic Safety (NETS), through a Cooperative Agreement with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), has contracted Ensuring Solutions to Alcohol Problems at The George Washington University Medical Center, Department of Health Policy. This summary provides a synopsis of the activities and findings from Year One of the project and activities planned for Year Two (beginning in January 2007). A more detailed description is presented in Ensuring Solutions\u27 Year One Final Report to NETS and is available by request

Screening and Brief Intervention (SBI): Guide & Resource Manual for Workplace Practitioners

Workplaces are underutilized for the delivery of alcohol prevention and early intervention programs. Yet, they offer the opportunity to reach people in a place where they spend most of their day. Workplace resources including employee assistance programs, health promotion and wellness programming, and occupational health and safety clinics are ideal settings to identify and intervene. The purpose of this guide is to present promising, feasible approaches to implementing evidence-based alcohol screening and brief intervention (SBI) methods in work-related settings. The processes and protocols are designed specifically for the following types of workplace professionals: employee assistance professionals (delivering services telephonically through centralized call centers or onsite in-person services); occupational health and safety staff (delivering in-person medical services, physical exams, and health screens); health promotion and wellness practitioners (delivering health promotion program offerings, educational/awareness outreach, automated screening, health risk assessments), and administrators of alcohol/drug testing programs. This guide was developed with funding and support from the Network of Employers for Traffic Safety, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, and Ensuring Solutions to Alcohol Problems at The George Washington University (through a grant from PEW Charitable Trusts). The development of this guide was also informed and supported by members of the Ensuring Solutions\u27 Workplace SBI Product Development Work Group consisting of employers, employee assistance and behavioral healthcare vendors, and vendors of alcohol/drug services, representatives from government agencies and professional groups, experts, researchers, and clinicians. The guide is divided into sections for ease of reviewing and synthesizing screening and brief intervention techniques. Each section is based on the best scientific evidence available. Materials and resources are available throughout the guide and in the Resources section

Preventing adolescent drug use : from theory to practice /

Includes bibliographical references.Adolescent transitions and alcohol and other drug use prevention / Laurence Steinberg -- Identification of youth at high risk for alcohol or other drug problems / Raymond P. Lorion, Danielle Bussell, and Richard Goldberg -- Reaching and retaining high risk youth and their parents in prevention programs / Hank Resnik and Marba Wojcicki -- Promoting health development through school-based prevention : new approaches / Eric Schaps and Victor Battistich.Mode of access: Internet