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Homewood Human Solutions’ Plan Smart Services offer an array of in-person and online support to help you on your path to wellness.
Becoming a new parent is certainly one of the most rewarding times in a person’s life, although it can also be one of the most overwhelming and stressful times. This employer-driven service provides employees, who have recently become or are about to become a new parent, with a unique outreach support process designed to empower them with knowledge and skills. In addition, new parents receive a baby bag of useful items as a gift from their employer.
As any parent knows, parenting is a long-term commitment that comes with many challenges along the way. While parenting can be the most rewarding role in our lives, it can also be the source of the most stress. Homewood Human Solutions Childcare and Parenting Specialists are able to help parents who may be struggling with any number of parenting and family issues.
Balancing eldercare and/or family care with career responsibilities can feel overwhelming and extremely stressful. Homewood Human Solutions has Eldercare Specialists on staff to work one-on-one with employees and provide an immediate needs assessment and followup with customized information. The specialists will also speak directly with the elderly person if that would be helpful to the situation, or they may bring in an independent provider to undertake an in-home assessment.
Homewood Human Solutions’ Financial Counselors help employees make better informed spending, saving and debt management decisions. The combination of comprehensive assessments, personalized information packages, and/or consultation with financial experts will help employees make intelligent, informed, and calculated decisions regarding how to best manage their money and debt.
When employees are faced with legal issues, they often struggle with questions about where to turn for information they can trust, or how to find an experienced and helpful lawyer. The Legal Advisory Service is provided through Lawline, a national legal advice service that gives employees easy and convenient access to a network of experienced lawyers. The Legal Advisory Service is a consultative service that does not include representation. If employees need legal representation, they are referred to an attorney in their area. The Service also provides a discount on legal services of up to 25%.
For most people, approaching retirement can be a time of excitement but also apprehension. With pre-planning and knowledge, it is possible to enjoy a smooth and stress-free transition into retirement. Human Solutions Pre-Retirement Planning Service provides the opportunity for employees to receive personalized information and/or speak directly with a career or financial counselor.
Homewood Human Solutions’ Smoking Cessation Program addresses all facets of smoking, including physical dependence (ie. nicotine addiction), psychological dependence (smoking habits and desire to smoke) and foundations of successful behaviour change. This personalized support process is built on prove, evidence-based behaviour-change methods.
Working shifts can put a strain on workers’ health, wellbeing, family and social life. Homewood Human Solutions Specialists help those individuals who are struggling to make working shifts a part of a healthy and rewarding personal and work life. Homewood Human Solutions can also facilitate one day workshops for groups of employees who would like to ease the stress of working shifts.
This service empowers learners to better manage their personal health and expand work-related skills. Homewood Human Solutions offers e-learning courses that focus on health and wellness, life skills, and work-related people management issues. Courses are self-directed and include printable information, quizzes, and exercises.
Retain your best employees by assisting them to ensure their skill set and aptitudes best meet your needs and their interests. Human Solutions offers Career Counseling to help employees identify and articulate skills, aptitudes, values, personality traits, and interests as they relate to career choice.
Assist employees to learn healthy eating habits to improve weight loss, energy and resistance to disease. Homewood Human Solutions offers a comprehensive Nutritional Counseling Service that includes a nutritional assessment, personalized food plans, and one-on-one coaching sessions by telephone. A sample of lifestyle themes include weight management, lactose intolerance, heart smart diets, and energy boosting diets.
Human Solutions provides a variety of free, health related workshops on campus. These are typically held during lunch hour and cover a wide variety of health and wellness topics. Click here to view the upcoming sessions. If you are interested in hosting a free health and wellness EFAP workshop in your department or unit, please contact Miranda Massie at 604-827-3047. She would be happy to provide you with the catalog of wellness sessions offered and help coordinate anything of interest.
Homewood Human Solutions’ website also offers online resources that address some of these issues and more. For example, you can access a child and eldercare Canadian provider database and access an online wellness library to read articles and newsletters on a variety of health and wellness topics.
Please note that the Health and Wellness Companion is available through Sun Life, our extended health/dental care benefits provider. Sign in to access an interactive online health risk assessment.
To contact Homewood Human Solutions:
View the Human Solutions Plan Smart Catalogue for the highlights of their services.
