| Overall Rating | Silver - expired |
|---|---|
| Overall Score | 61.45 |
| Liaison | Austin Sutherland |
| Submission Date | May 1, 2014 |
| Executive Letter | Download |
University of Pennsylvania
PAE-T2-5: Employee Wellness Program
| Status | Score | Responsible Party |
|---|---|---|
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0.25 / 0.25 |
Does the institution have an employee assistance or wellness program that provides counseling, referral, and well-being services to employees?:
A brief description of the employee wellness program, policy, or practice:
The University of Pennsylvania offers an Employee Assistance Program (EAP) to provide free and confidential one-on-one counseling sessions to our faculty, staff and their immediate family members when personal life issues are interfering with personal well-being. The EAP also provides frequent support to supervisors and leaders when a critical incident occurs in the workplace, such as the death of colleague or to national catastrophe.
Penn also offers our faculty and staff broad-based wellness programing. These programs include on-campus biometric screenings; a comprehensive online wellness portal offering a variety of health promotion tools such as, health risk assessments, telephonic health coaching programs, health information, healthy lifestyle videos, as well as a multi-faceted quit smoking program that includes free nicotine replacement therapies. In addition Penn also offers a walking program, monthly presentations by health professionals on stress-management and a range of health and well-being topics.
The website URL where information about the program, policy, or practice is available:
Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
The information presented here is self-reported. While AASHE staff review portions of all STARS reports and institutions are welcome to seek additional forms of review, the data in STARS reports are not verified by AASHE. If you believe any of this information is erroneous or inconsistent with credit criteria, please review the process for inquiring about the information reported by an institution or simply email your inquiry to stars@aashe.org.