Harvard’s Employee Assistance Program, provided by KGA
KGA combines employee assistance personal services such as 1:1 free/confidential mental health counselling along with on-demand platforms and programs to meet the needs of our community. KGA offers mental health, work-life, and manager specific services. Visit their website to learn more. Access code required.
Drawing on proven Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) methods, MindTide, provided by KGA, offers a variety of brief exercises, courses, and audio tools to help manager stress and anxiety. Users choose the topic and format, with sessions as short as five minutes.
Maybe you’ve already found mindfulness to be an effective and accessible approach to coping with stress, distraction, and anxiety and are ready to take your mindfulness practice further. Maybe you’re eager to try it out for the first time. You might just be a curious skeptic. Whoever you are, the Happier app can help you discover, evaluate, establish, renew, or grow your mindfulness practice. And you can carry the app with you, anywhere.
L2L is a program that provides clinical assessments and a variety of self-guided programs to address mental health issues for employees and their dependents age 13+ who select the BCBSMA or HUGHP health insurance. Access code required
The office administers several programs with external and internal partners to deliver services that are designed to support your work/life wellbeing.
- Harvard-subsidized back-up care for children, elder, and personal care and senior care planning services support employees with dependent care needs.
- Mindfulness at Work is a series of virtual workshops and courses that teach people how to practice and incorporate mindfulness into their everyday lives.
- Harvard’s seven on-campus childcare centers operate on the Cambridge and Allston campuses, each with its own characteristics and culture.
- Childcare and adoption scholarships and grants are available to eligible faculty, staff and postdocs based on need to help defray the cost of care.
Education and Resources for Managers
Harvard’s MMHT (Manager Mental Health Training)
This evidence-based, self-paced training course teaches skills for managers to support their supervisees’ mental wellbeing. Participants gain insights and practical strategies for addressing mental health concerns and stigma in the workplace along with resources to incorporate newly learned behaviors into day-to-day interactions with staff.
Resources for Employees Working with Students
Harvard University Crimson Folder: The Crimson Folders contain resources enabling faculty, staff, postdocs, researchers, teaching fellows, and teaching assistants to recognize and support students experiencing mental health challenges.