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spent weeks searching for the
right person for the role. Your
company spent months training them
for the job. And their new colleagues
spent years getting to know them and
welcoming them to the family.
Now a mental health disorder or
addiction threatens to take it all away.
But a new treatment option (one of the
first in the country) developed by EHN
Canada, a leading Canadian network of
premier treatment centres, could allow
your employee to get the care they need
— without having to leave their job.
An innovative new treatment option from EHN Canada looks to be a
game-changer for employers in allowing their employees to recover from
addiction or mental health disorders without having to leave their jobs —
or even their homes
5 QUESTIONS ABOUT
EMPLOYER-FUNDED
MENTAL HEALTH CARE
W ELLNES S & MENTA L HE A LTH
YOU
The ROI in Workplace Mental Health
Programs: Good for People, Good for
Business.
In fact, across Canada, poor mental
health could cost the Canadian
economy upwards of $2.5 trillion over
the next 20 years, says Deloitte.
An Intensive
Outpatient
Program (IOP)
is a structured
blend of intensive
individual and
group therapy
sessions spanning
eight weeks,
followed by 10
months of online
aftercare designed
to help employees
stay on track.
It's called the Intensive Outpatient
Program (IOP) and it could be a game-
changer for your company and your
employees.
But new treatments mean new ques-
tions, so let's answer some of them.
1. How much is this problem costing
your company?
It goes without saying that the financial
success of any business is a sure-fire way
to keep everyone on the job. After all,
when it comes to business, the bottom
line is, well, the bottom line.
But mental health disorders and
s t r u g g l e s w i t h a d d i c t i o n c o u l d
be impacting the productivity of
your employees.
A 2019 report from Deloitte examined
how much mental health disorders
alone are costing employers.
"On average, mental health issues
account for 30 to 40 per cent of short-
term disability claims and 30 per
cent of long-term disability claims in
Canada, with the prevalence of claims
for mental health diagnoses climbing
by 0.5 to one per cent every year," says
