Alberta Health Services is enhancing its employee assistance program with new mental-health resources for members.
The new offerings are the result of a partnership between EAP provider Homewood Health Inc. and headversity, a mental-health and resilience platform, according to a press release, which noted the program reaches 250,000 users in Western Canada.
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“Health-care workers and their families have had the challenging job of helping all Albertans through the COVID-19 pandemic,” said Jason Luan, Alberta’s associate minister of mental health and addictions, in the release. “I’m pleased to hear that AHS, Homewood Health and headversity are giving them a tool that’s personalized to their mental well-being.”