Employers

Aspiria offers condensed 1-hour Lunch and Learn seminars as well as more focused in-depth presentations or workshops that support your organization’s commitment to fostering a healthy workforce.

As part of our Mind & Body Wellness solutions, Aspiria’s health-care professionals have developed comprehensive wellness tools that are designed to motivate employees using interactive technology that can be accessed from work and home.

The Aspiria web tools are integrated with expert health advice and workplace activities to stimulate health promotion, while adhering to strict privacy and security practices. We also offer on-site health promotion services.

Coaching has become a proven tool for learning and building engaged workplaces and lives. Aspiria’s wide selection of coaching and training services are specifically designed for individuals, teams or groups interested in enhancing their performance.

We provide life coaching, professional and executive coaching, team coaching, conflict resolution/mediation and a variety of professional development workshops. Our coaches partner with employees to examine obstacles, developmental gaps and create a learning and action plan. Coaching is a confidential, convenient and cost-effective way to provide consistent, long-term development that becomes embedded in your corporate culture.

Wellness Life Coaching is the latest innovation that responds to the ever growing need we face to increase our personal, relationship, spiritual and professional life satisfaction level. It addresses one’s need to create a meaningful, purposeful and fulfilling life and supports the individual as they take more from personal vision into action. 

Wellness Life Coaching is an effective and easily accessed personal development approach. The telephony session model offers the user a solution which minimizes life and time constraints. Coaching can be conveniently included in one’s schedule during work or personal hours.

Telephonic Wellness Life Coaching provides a safe and confidential personal exploration process focused on results and change.

Types of Issues Life Coaching can address:

• Career Management
• Wellness
• Work/ life balance
• Life planning and goal setting
• Relationship
• Parenting and family challenges
• Personal purpose
• Personal Transition
• Etc.
• Duration of session: 50 minutes

Type of coaches used: Associate Certified Coaches (ACC) or Professional Certified Coach (PCC) who have graduated from ICF approved programs (ATCP) and Certified Career Management Coaches CCMC.

As part of our commitment to building diversity in skills and personnel within the workplace, Aspiria offers a wide selection of coaching and training services specifically designed for individuals, teams and groups interested in enhancing their performance and life decisions. The services can be customized and include Executive Team Development, Team Building, Effectiveness Training for Managers and Supervisors, and Life Coaching.

Executive Team Development

Aspiria’s Team Development Coaching & Training program includes a diagnostic phase of your Team’s needs, the evaluation of personal communication and behavioural style as well as the development of explicit coaching strategies to address existing challenges. The beginning phase is designed to address your organization’s overall needs for healing. The latter phase works with the sub-groups to overcome any historical, interpersonal dynamics and sets new commitments between the work teams.

Teamwork

Mastering a set of behaviours can be difficult to apply consistently. This program is designed to build your team and deliver the following:

• Personal value
• Team value
• Process value
• Clear and honest communication
• Enrollment in the work and partnership in the outcome
• Excitement and motivation

Supervisor and Management Workshops/Seminars

Through our workshop and seminar programs, we assist supervisory or managerial level employees create a better balance between the demands of their position and the healthy management (and enjoyment) of life outside work. Training initiatives can deal with a wide range of issues including:

• Understanding Secondary Traumatic Stress
• Emotional Exhaustion
• Healthy Food for Life / Eating on the Go
• Resiliency: The Bounce-Back Factor
• Working with Stressed Employees
• Collaboration at Work: Developing Effective Relationships
• Building Blocks for a Successful Team
• Respect in the Workplace
• Workplace Violence Prevention
• And many more…

Aspiria delivers a bilingual, unbiased, independent and high quality financial education, counselling and planning service, in a combination of on-line, and live individual and group settings, to employers across Canada.

Aspiria’s Financial Education Solutions can help you implement a customized, complete financial education program from start to finish, helping your employees prepare for a brighter financial future and secure retirement, reducing the negativity associated with financial stress. Our financial education consultants will work with you to understand your business and outline a financial education solution that meets your specific needs. We also work with you to design a communication strategy to inform your employees of the program to ensure its success. In turn, your organization will realize the benefits of a healthier and more focused employee.

When a critical incident strikes at work, it can be devastating and unpredictable. You will receive timely and on-site trauma intervention from our team of crisis-trained professionals to help your employees and organization address the workplace trauma, if and whenever an incident of this nature suddenly occurs.

Our Critical Incident Response Solutions are comprised of:

• 24/7, immediate risk consultation and intervention plan with Senior Trauma Specialist;
• Onsite crisis support and relief for all affected individuals of trauma event;
• Post debriefing follow up consultation with organizational contact and/or manager;
• Education, training, and consultation for key personnel and organizational peer-support workers.

From our 24/7 Clinical Response Centre (CRC) to our National Clinical Director and our team of local clinicians, we will provide you with immediate trauma relief and intervention to ensure effective critical incident defusing and debriefing.

Aspiria’s Disability Management Program focuses specifically on mental health and addictions issues as they impact the employee’s work environment and overall quality of life.

For employees at risk, our team is ready to assist managers and other key personnel by providing thorough assessments, treatments, ongoing case management, and follow-up services.

With our Disability Management solutions, we ensure:

• A 14 business-day turnaround time from point of initial referral to the completion of the Disability Management summary report.
• The program’s Clinical Director oversees the entire case and is the main liaison between all stakeholders (i.e., employee, manager, treatment provider, insurance provider)

Aspiria’s Corporate Alcohol and Drug Service is a full-service support program consisting of Assessment, Treatment, Referral, and Aftercare/Relapse Prevention.

This specialized program assists employers help their employees seeking medical advice and treatment for substance abuse or dependence.

• Assessment: Measures focus on history, previous treatment, medications, emotional well-being and other critical indicators to help evaluate the employee’s severity of symptoms.
• Treatment: If assessed at mild to moderate levels of severity, the individual will remain in Aspiria’s internal service to be treated. Our internal treatment service is comprised of 6–10 sessions in which the employee meets face-to-face with an Addiction Specialist.
• Referral: At moderate to severe levels, the individual will be referred to an appropriate inpatient or outpatient community treatment program. We aim to refer to provincially recognized or sponsored treatment facilities, to allow for insurance coverage where appropriate.
• Aftercare/Relapse Prevention: After treatment, the Aftercare/Relapse Prevention Program will be recommended. In this program, the Addiction Specialist remains in contact with the employee for up to six months to help reduce chances of relapse. In some cases, community support groups may also complement the program.

Together with our healthcare professionals, Aspiria helps to ensure your employee returns to a productive life, both at home and at work.

Corporate Drug & Alcohol Recovery Program (DARP)

Aspiria’s Corporate Drug & Alcohol Recovery Program can be a stand-alone or coordinated with an employer’s existing drug and alcohol testing policy. In either case, we will oversee, coordinate and manage your case from beginning to end. Drug and alcohol consultation:

• An Addictions Specialist is available to consult with all stakeholders at all times.
• Consultations, test result analyses, assessments, treatment recommendations, and referrals will be provided.
• Designated Employer Representative activities will include liaising with key individuals and record-keeping.

When treatment is required: Employees will be provided with the appropriate referrals for treatment. Treatment may be inpatient or outpatient, group or individual, privately funded or ministry-funded, and may be adjusted for the individual situation. We aim to help your valued employee return to a productive and healthy state in a manageable period of time. To find out more about our Alcohol & Drug Addiction Service Solutions, give our Vice President of Clinical Experience a call at 1-877-277-4742 ext. 103 or email Eric Rubel at erubel@aspiria.ca.

HRessentials Solutions

Addressing human resources issues can be challenging and time-consuming, especially for a small business. HRessentials is designed to enhance your organizational effectiveness and address people-related issues, while providing your leaders with the necessary tools to do so. Aspiria can take care of HR issues so that you can focus on the rest of your business. Using HRessentials, your organization will have the convenience of prompt support via virtual access to your seasoned HR Consultant. In addition to HR advice, you will receive:

• Coaching and mentoring for non-HR professionals on the fundamentals of HR
• Access to monthly newsletters
• Review and feedback on existing company policies and templates
• Standard workplace templates, available upon request

At Aspiria we know that strategically mobilizing and sizing your workforce to meet the needs of your business is crucial to minimizing turnover and maintaining productivity of unaffected employees.

Our Workforce Transition & Outplacement Solutions services are designed to provide you with the necessary support in the change management process, including specialized career counselling, outplacement skill-building, resume writing, job search, and, termination support.

Our three programs vary in length from 1-6 months, and each provides a complete solution on topics including outplacement, career decisions, organizational transition planning, organizational transition implementation, and redeployment.

Interested in finding out more about our Workforce Transition & Outplacement Solutions? Find out more about how we can help by calling 1-877-277-4742 ext. 106 or email us directly at services@aspiria.ca.

Whether or not you have an EAP in place at your organization, Aspiria is focused on providing quality programs with genuine, professional, and responsive customer service. Let us breathe new life into your organization and your people, and empower them to reach their full potential. Our Specialized Solutions will help you get there.

When an employee is diagnosed with cancer, it can impact the entire organization. Aspiria’s OnCallogic service is designed specifically for employees and/or anyone in the employee’s family who has been touched by a diagnosis of cancer. Our workplace cancer experts will provide specialized support and navigation consultation to those that are affected by cancer.

In addition to employees experiencing emotional difficulties, there may be an associated legal component that requires immediate attention. Aspiria’s free legal consultation services provide in-person or telephonic legal advice in several areas of law, including personal, separation and divorce, custody, impaired driving, domestic violence, and civil. Please note that no legal advice is dispensed for labour-law situations due to any potential conflict of interest. Employees that wish to retain a lawyer referred to them by Aspiria will receive up to 25% discount on those services.

Aspiria knows that healthy, active employees enjoy a higher quality of life. In today’s busy lifestyle, having a healthy and well-balanced diet is often difficult for many families to maintain. Our professional nutritionists will work with your employees or their family members in a face-to-face setting to identify health goals and create unique, customized plans and programs to address a multitude of nutrition-based wellness issues, including weight loss, food preferences, lowering cholesterol, regulating diabetes through nutrition, and healthy eating on the go.

Aging speaks to caregivers, seniors, adults with disabilities, and everyone who is proactively planning the future. We offer information regarding Canada’s health care system for the elderly, housing and home care options (such as assisted living and medical care facilities), and Meals on Wheels and other community resources. In our Health component of our elder care services, learn about the common “side effects” of growing older and what one can do to minimize their impact. The Aging Well component focuses on the positive side of aging, with suggestions to help seniors stay mentally and physically fit and have fun.

If you’re looking to start a family, or are seeking parental advice, Aspiria offers many services related to child care. Here are just a few of the family-oriented services we can offer through an EAP at no expense:

• Parenting provides information to parents of all different experience levels with kids of all different ages. This information can be anything parenting-related, from raising your child’s self-esteem to keeping backseat chaos to a minimum. 
• Adoption helps employees throughout the entire adoption process, including the legal and financial aspects, special parenting needs of adopted children, and information on how to find their child’s birth parents.
• Kids’ Well-Being offers tips to keep children safe and sound from infancy through to young adulthood, with an emphasis on health, safety, and a positive interaction with the world around them.

Aspiria connects employees to the work-life balance information they need at the click of a button and allows them to communicate with Work-Life Consultants 24/7 over instant messaging.

Our WorkLife Web Portal, accessible through the Aspiria website, provides access to the following seven modules:

• Aging
• Balancing
• Living
• Working
• Thriving
• Parenting
• International

Each of these modules offer “digital kits” on a large number of topics that employees and their family members can relate to, no matter what stage of life they’re in. These kits include informative articles, assessments, and audio files.

Aspiria is dedicated to providing organizational and managerial support to our valued clients. Using HRessentials, your organization will have access to up to three free hours of virtual support per year from a seasoned Human Resources Consultant. We provide practical and prompt HR guidance, such as advice on challenging HR issues, coaching and mentoring for non-HR professionals on the fundamentals of HR, access to monthly newsletters, and review of and feedback on existing company policies and templates. Should a client require additional Human Resources services, Aspiria can deliver these in a timely and cost-efficient manner.