News Release
Tempe Hires CONTACT For Employee Behavioral Health
Date Released: 8/23/05
The City of Tempe has awarded a contract to CONTACT Behavioral Health Services to provide Employee Assistance Program (EAP) services for its 1,650 city employees and their family members. The services offered in this two-year contract will include helping city employees and their family members deal with stress and job-related issues, including debriefings following emergency interactions.
CONTACT, an affiliate of Schaller Anderson Behavioral Health, Incorporated, is the state's largest managed behavioral health care organization. It is an industry leader in the provision of EAP and managed behavioral health care, providing services to 1.2 million people.
Among the services it will provide City of Tempe employees, CONTACT will:
- Provide short-term counseling for stress and job-related issues; individual, family, relational and marital concerns, child and domestic abuse and chemical dependency assessment;
- Conduct employee and supervisor orientations on city premises;
- Conduct critical incident stress debriefings;
- Hold train-the-trainer workshops and provide supervisory referrals.
"We are very pleased to be working on behalf of the City of Tempe," said Jay Roundy, M.A., D.P.A., Chief Executive Officer for CONTACT. "CONTACT has more than 500 licensed counselors in Maricopa and Pinal counties, offering the City's employees access to a counselor within a short distance of their homes. This convenient accessibility will enable employees to take advantage of these services when they are needed, and will support their efforts to maintain healthy, productive lives."
Incorporated 18 years ago, Schaller Anderson administers physical and behavioral health care for Medicaid and employer self-funded plans. Schaller Anderson's affiliated companies provide services in six states—Arizona, California, Delaware, Maryland, Missouri and Tennessee-and serve more than 1.5 million people, managing $2 billion in health care benefits with 1,500 employees.
CONTACT, which was acquired by Schaller Anderson in November 2003, was founded in 1979 and has been an industry leader in the provision of behavioral health care and alcohol and drug treatment services for more than two decades. More than one million people can access their services, and CONTACT has more than 800 providers.
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