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Benefits & Support / Employee Assistance Program (EAP)

Harvard's Employee Assistance Program (EAP) is more than a counseling referral service. It provides resources and consultation to help you manage virtually any aspect of your life. Look to the EAP for:

  • Free legal consultation
  • Connection to pet services, such as cat sitters and dog walkers
  • Help navigating the college application process
  • Help finding day care providers in your area with current openings
  • Consultation on financial issues such as budgeting, debt reduction, and financial planning

Harvard's EAP also offers free and confidential help with personal, family, and work-related concerns, to you and your household members, including:

  • Mental-health problems, such as anxiety, depression, and substance abuse
  • Work stress and crises including conflict, diversity issues, and the illness or death of a coworker
  • Family issues involving relationships, parenting, going back to work after having a baby, alternative families, and grief
  • Eldercare, adoption, and childcare questions and referral requests
  • Management consultations about staff dynamics, performance problems, reorganizations, and special needs

Services are available 24 hours a day

Consultants take calls from 8:30 a.m. to 6 p.m., Monday through Thursday, and from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Friday. Crisis support is available at the same number, 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

Consultation is provided in over a dozen different languages.

Bilingual and bicultural counselors are available by phone and in person. The hearing-impaired can meet with counselors fluent in American Sign Language.

Help is available anywhere.

Whether you want to meet with an EAP consultant or other provider in Harvard Square, another local community, or another part of the country, the program can tap into a broad network of resources.

Call 877-EAP-HARV (877-327-4278) 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

http://harvie.harvard.edu/workandlife/eap/

The services of the EAP are available to all postdocs that receive a paycheck from Harvard and work more than 17.5 hours a week.