WORKFORCE
directly to the directorate’s ASAP page,
https://www.armyresil-
ience.army.mil/substance/index.html.
In the left sidebar menu, click on ASAP locations, which will provide a list of all ASAP resources worldwide.
Another resource is the Military and Family Life Counseling Program, accessible via Military OneSource. Tis program is for military personnel and expeditionary civilians.
Tose who would prefer to find resources independently from the Army can reach out to their health insurance provider. Cunning- ham cautioned that, while an individual provider might be listed as accepting Aetna, for example, they might not be taking new clients.
Another source of information and resources for military person- nel and families is Soldier and Family Resources at https://www.
army.mil/soldierresources/, which lists a wide variety of services, with links to many different types of needs.
Tose searching for services by location can find a list of all garri- sons and contact information at
https://home.army.mil/imcom/ index.php/garrisons. In addition, the Army produces an app called Digital Garrison, which provides information on a wide variety of services, events and other information at each Army garri- son, including how to access the EAP or ASAP. It’s available on Google Play for Android devices (
https://play.google.com/store/ apps/details?id=
com.aafes.digitalgarrison&hl=en_US&gl=US)
The Army offers lots of benefits to both military and civilian personnel, but sometimes finding them can be more difficult than taking advantage of them.
and the Apple App Store (
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/digital- garrison/id1484777325) for iOS devices.
CONCLUSION In the same way that ordinary circumstances can be made more stressful by the pandemic, inherently stressful situations—the death of a loved one, children in trouble, divorce, financial issues—can get worse in the strange, silent COVID hurricane. Tere are resources available, but like a lot of things in govern- ment employment, military or civilian, you have to find them. It’s best not to wait until a crisis to do your crisis planning. Do it before the going gets tough.
—STEVE STARK
CONFIDENTIAL SUPPORT
Dr. John Kaiser, Employee Assistance Program coordinator, works as the community readiness and resilience integrator as well as the health promotion officer at U.S. Army Garrison Wiesbaden in Germany. “Information is key to reducing stress and we want to make sure we are taking care of ourselves through this difficult time,” he said. (Photo by Sgt. Elizabeth Clark, 7th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment)
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