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- Caregiver Program Reduces Absenteeism in Clackamas County
- Selecting and Strengthening Employee Assistance Programs: A Purchaser's Guide
- An Employer's Guide to Child and Adolescent Mental Health: A Blueprint for Action
- Brief Offers Guidance to Employers for Parity Implementation
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The partnership advances effective employer approaches to mental health by combining the knowledge and experience of the American Psychiatric Association and our employer partners.
What´s New
New Mental Health Works Available
The same resource for the latest in workplace mental health and employer case examples,
Mental Health Works will now be circulated entirely online. Moving Mental Health Works to
a digital format allows us to respond to timely topics faster than ever.
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How can managers help improve workplace mental health during this stressful economy?
A new website dedicated to answering your questions about mental health and addictions takes
a look at workplace issues in our trying economy.
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Parity Regulations Released
The Departments of Health and Human Services, Labor and the Treasury have released interim final rules for the
Wellstone-Domenici Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act of 2008. The guidance released is an interim final rule
and comments are being solicited.
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New Research Works: Successful Employer Implementation of the Federal Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act
The latest in the Research Works series, this brief provides a review of actuarial and retrospective research studies on parity’s
impact on costs. In addition, it highlights three key employer action steps for successful implementation.
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Results from Partnership Parity Survey
According to a recent Partnership survey, only a few employers are considering dropping mental health coverage in response to new parity rules that take effect for plan years beginning after Oct. 3. The survey was designed to better understand current corporate benefit design and what kinds of changes employers intend to make in order to comply with the law. For more information, download a copy of the survey results here or visit our Parity page here.
Partnership Takes On Psychiatric Disability
The current fragmented approach to psychiatric disability is costly to
employers, debilitating for employees, troubling for clinicians, and
frustrating for all. The Partnership has taken a major step toward remedying
this situation by forming the Taskforce on Disability and Return to Work. The
Taskforce has developed a set of assessment tools and recommendations which are
currently being pilot-tested with a large employer in the Pacific Northwest.
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