Sponsored by Heritage Health Solutions

As the U.S. economy rebuilds amid the COVID-19 pandemic, business leaders need to prioritize employee mental health by fostering a stigma-free company environment, increasing access to tools/research, encouraging early treatment and incorporating innovative behavioral health programs that help employees address their struggles in a meaningful way.

Mental health issues across a workforce come with significant impact. Workplaces bear substantial costs stemming from absenteeism, increased health care expenses and turnover, and lost productivity. Nearly a third of U.S. employers (31%) say the strain on employee mental health is having a severe financial effect on their company – up from 21% in March 2020. Burnout and disengaged employees can cost organizations between $450 billion and $550 billion annually.

During this webinar, learn how using digital learning platforms combined with high-touch services help navigate employees to the right care and deliver immediate behavioral health care by allowing employees to access peer coaches and trained health care professionals online.

It’s essential for employers to understand addiction, substance misuse and mental health issues to better support their employees and crush the stigma that surrounds them.

Join this webinar to better understand how to support your workforce; the options for providing appropriate care; and the best practices that help reduce workplace impairment, injuries, absenteeism and health care costs while increasing productivity.

Speakers

Hamilton Baiden, CEO, Heritage Health Solutions

With almost three decades of experience in the health care industry, Hamilton brings both a vision and passion for creating innovative solutions to complex problems. He has been the driving force behind expanding the behavioral health services that Heritage offers and leveraged his experience and entrepreneurial spirit to create progressive programs. Hamilton focuses on providing transparent leadership and expanding on Heritage’s vast portfolio of services and solutions; his strategic direction and initiatives will cement Heritage’s status as one of the industry’s top integrated health care managers. His extensive knowledge of the industry will also lend itself to developing new health care solutions and services within the Heritage brand.

Jenny Burke, Vice President, Impairment Practice, National Safety Council

Jenny advances the National Safety Council mission of eliminating preventable deaths in our lifetime by leading NSC advocacy initiatives. These strategic programs – involving safety on the road and in homes and communities, fatigue, transportation, and prescription drug overdose – raise awareness and educate audiences to keep each other safe. Jenny has raised awareness of these initiatives through such successful national efforts as benchmarking employer data on the opioid epidemic and its impact on the workplace, as well as creating cost calculators to illustrate the effect of opioids or fatigue on an employer’s bottom line. Additionally, she oversees the development of educational programs that tackle cutting-edge issues, including deaths and injuries related to fatigue and addiction.

David Whitesock, Founder and CEO, Commonly Well

David has been leading innovative and entrepreneurial programs in addiction, recovery and technology since 2004. In the course of designing new approaches to peer coaching, he developed the Recovery Capital Index. The RCI is a scientifically validated assessment that measures recovery or well-being. David founded Commonly Well in 2020 to broaden the reach and impact of the RCI. David is a regular speaker and advocate for addiction and mental health. He focuses his advocacy on improving well-being for fellow attorneys and reducing impaired driving.

Moderator

Kevin Druley, Associate Editor, Safety+Health magazine

Kevin covers worker safety for Safety+Health.