where to go for help
Work / Life Balance
University Resources:
Work/Life Resource Center (WLRC)
The Work/Life Resource Center (WLRC) provides programs and services designed to support the healthy integration of work life and personal life. The WLRC can assist U-M employees with locating child care, care for aging parents, back-up child care (Kids Kare at Home). WLRC can also provide help with work/life balance issues and the design of flexible work schedules. WLRC offers individual consultation both in-person or over the phone, as well as seminars, workshops, presentations, and discussion groups
www.umich.edu/~hraa/worklife
(734) 936-8677
Center for Education of Women (CEW)
The Center for the Education of Women (CEW), a unit of the University of Michigan, offers services to students, faculty, staff and community members; advocates for women in higher education and in the workplace; and adds to our knowledge of women's lives through our ongoing research program. The CEW’s counseling service assists hundreds of women and men each year as they make decisions about their futures. The comprehensive counseling program supports exploration of educational and career interests within the context of relationships and life circumstances.
http://www.umich.edu/~cew/services/couns.htm
(734) 764-6360
UMHS Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
For health system employees
The UMHS Employee Assistance Program (EAP) is a confidential, no cost service for UMHS faculty, staff, and their families as well as U-M staff and faculty located near UMHS. Our goal is to inspire ongoing individual and organizational development, while contributing to the health and well-being of the Health System community. We do this by providing brief counseling and coaching services, mediation services, crisis intervention, assessment and referral, educational and training programs, and supervisory, staff, and team consultation.
hr.umich.edu/mhealthy/programs/mental_emotional/eap.html
(734) 763-5409
Faculty and Staff Assistance Program (FASAP)
For campus employees in Ann Arbor, Dearborn, & Flint
The University of Michigan Faculty and Staff Assistance Program (FASAP) offers a number of services to help staff, faculty, and their immediate family members with personal difficulties encountered at both work and home. All services are free of charge and confidential and include: short-term counseling on personal, emotional, family and work place issues; personalized coaching services to assist with achieving professional or personal goals; critical incident, trauma and grief counseling; and educational presentations on a variety of emotional and mental health topics.
www.umich.edu/~fasap
Central Campus (734) 936-8660 TTY (734) 647-1388
Flint Campus (734) 936-8660 TTY (734) 647-1388
Dearborn Campus (313) 593-5430
House Officer Mental Health Program
The House Officer Mental Health Program provides confidential counseling, evaluation, and psychotherapy for house officers and their significant others. The program is staffed by psychiatrists who know the medical setting. They have experience treating the full range of personal and work problems of physicians at all levels of training.
http://sitemaker.umich.edu/hoa/house_officer_mental_health_program
(734) 647-9776
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International Center
The U-M International Center provides a variety of services to assist international students, scholars, faculty and staff at the University of Michigan. The International Center advises on adjustment to U.S. society and American culture, academic concerns and community resources, and also conducts workshops and orientation sessions for international students, scholars, and U-M departments.
www.umich.edu/~icenter
(734) 764-9310
Support Groups/ Self-Help Groups:
Note: If you don’t find the support group or self-help group you’re looking for, search on the more general sites listed under the Support Groups/ Self-Help Groups category. There are many more potentially relevant groups than can be included here.
Workaholics Anonymous (WA)
Workaholics Anonymous is a fellowship of individuals who share their experience, strength, and hope with each other that they may solve their common problems and help others to recover from workaholism. The only requirement for membership is the desire to stop working compulsively. There are no dues or fees for WA membership. WA is not allied with any sect, denomination, politics, organization or institution; does not wish to engage in any controversy; neither endorses nor opposes any causes. Our primary purpose is to stop working compulsively and to carry the message of recovery to workaholics who still suffer.
http://www.workaholics-anonymous.org/_meetings.html
