SAVE Employee Assistance Program – The SAVE Employee Assistance Program provides free counseling, assessment, referral, financial consultation and legal guidance to employees of contracted companies.

SAVE Employee
Assistance Program

For 40 years, we’ve helped local companies restore or enhance the functioning of their employees and the teams to which they belong. SAVE (Save a Valuable Employee) offers trainings and confidential counseling services to empower your employees and their family members to meet life’s challenges.

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Confidential.
Compassionate. Professional.

All of us have the occasional problem, personal or work-related. Sometimes they persist and may affect our mental and physical health, well-being, and work performance. SAVE provides professional counseling services that are completely confidential and won't become part of your personnel file.

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Helping optimize
workplace culture.

SAVE can help you assess key behavioral dimensions underpinning optimal workplace culture. We offer a wide range of trainings designed to improve workplace relationships and optimize performance, including mandated sexual harassment and bullying prevention training. SAVE also provides support in response to critical incidences in the workplace.

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SAVE Employee Assistance Program: Helping You Meet Life's Challenges

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Offering Confidential Professional Counseling

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Providing Employee Trainings to Optimize Workplace Culture

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How SAVE can support your employees.

The SAVE Employee Assistance Program provides free counseling, assessment, referral, financial consultation and legal guidance to employees of contracted companies. It is a resource to Human Resource Professionals and Managers as it assists them with supporting employees through personal and professional challenges thereby minimizing negative impacts in the workplace.

SAVE serves both English and Spanish speaking teens through elders. We offer a variety of services including, but not limited to, confidential counseling, assessment and referral, mediation, management coaching, legal guidance, financial consultation, critical incident stress debriefings and onsite trainings. SAVE makes referrals to community resources and ongoing long term support as needed.

Why choose SAVE?

Local, personal service.

SAVE is the only local EAP program in Santa Barbara County. We build relationships with our clients. When an employee comes to us for services, they will have the same professional helping them each time they call.

Professional experience. Satisfied clients.

SAVE has been serving Santa Barbara companies for 40 years. We currently have over 30 satisfied clients in multiple industries, including food and hospitality, agriculture, health care, education, social services, and environmental services.

In just a few sessions, the SAVE counselor gave me the tools I needed to start improving my relationships at work. I have already recommended the program to several of my coworkers.

Contact SAVE:
805.962.5387

Our Services

Professional Growth

SAVE offers individual consultations and dynamic trainings that support and inspire employees in reaching their professional goals, develop their teamwork and communication skills, strengthen their relationships with co-workers, manage stress, adapt to career transitions and navigate common workplace challenges.

Employee Trainings

SAVE offers a variety of employee trainings throughout the year on such topics as safety in the workplace; bullying prevention; compassion fatigue; drug and alcohol awareness; time management; cultural competence; and stress management.

Counseling Services

Short-term counseling sessions are available to employees and to each of their family members. All counseling services are provided by professional counselors including marriage and family therapists, social workers, psychologists, and certified employee assistance professionals.

Financial Consultations

Ask the Financial Experts; whether it’s getting out of debt, saving for goals, or planning for retirement, the Balance Financial Fitness Program can help your employees achieve financial independence and security.

Legal Guidance

SAVE’s legal consultation services are provided by an experienced attorney who evaluates the employee’s legal circumstances and helps them understand the choices available. The attorney provides general information and guides them in taking the first steps towards their goal.

Mediation

Sometimes employees get stuck in unhealthy and unproductive workplace relationship dynamics. SAVE’s certified mediator can help resolve long-standing issues and restore healthy relationships.

Sexual
Harrassment Training

SAVE’s Sexual Harassment and Bullying Prevention Training is an interactive, two-hour training that meets the legal requirements of California AB1343. It is offered quarterly.

Critical Incident
Stress Debriefing

CISD is a group meeting in which participants have an opportunity to process their emotions in the aftermath of a traumatic event. It helps employees maintain their psychological well-being and return to work with fewer long-lasting effects.

Our Services

Professional Growth

SAVE can assist employees to grow professionally through group training and individual meetings. We can help your company with teamwork, communication skills, getting along with co-workers, anger management, career transitions, and general workplace problems.

Employee Trainings

Counseling Services

Financial Consultations

Legal Guidance

Legal telephone consultation is available through SAVE. Exployees can talk to a qualified, experienced attorney who will evaluate the problem and help them understand the choices available. If we can’t help you meet your goals, we’ll refer you to a resource that will meet your needs.

Mediation Services

Sometimes employees get stuck in unhealthy and unproductive workplace relationship dynamics. SAVE’s certified mediator is can help resolve long-standing issues and restore healthy relationships.

Sexual Harassment Training

SAVE’s Sexual Harassment and Bullying Prevention Training is an interactive, two-hour training that meets the legal requirements of California AB1343. It is offered quarterly.

Critical Incident Stress Debriefing

CISD is a group meeting in which participants have an opportunity to process their emotions in the aftermath of a traumatic event. It helps employees maintain their psychological well-being and return to work with fewer long-lasting effects.

What Clients Are Saying

SAVE has been of invaluable assistance and support to me as I work through employee issues with management. A number of employees have also consulted in person and over the phone with SAVE's staff as they experience work related and personal challenges relating to family, finances and legal matters.

Building a strong workforce to serve our students is central to delivering a quality education. SAVE complements that goal by providing support and resources for our employees. SAVE is a valuable resource for District employees including management. The staff at SAVE is highly professional, responsive, completely confidential, and available.

The SAVE program has helped give our employees the tools they needed to handle various challenges in their lives that involve family, work or financial stressors and has empowered them to help make decisions when dealing with difficult issues.

Our company has offered SAVE as a benefit to our employees for more than twelve years. It has been very helpful to have SAVE available as a resource when employees need assistance with personal matters. I have always received positive feedback from our employees about the services they’ve received. Based on our experience with SAVE, I would highly recommend the program to employers.

Employees call in and are referred the same day. We have made supervisory referrals, and have used their grief counseling and training sessions. SAVE is a very valuable program.

SAVE was recommended by a coworker who had used the program. Visiting with the SAVE counselor was the best decision I have made in a long time. I really needed someone to talk to.

The SAVE counselor was there when I needed someone to help me navigate all the changes in my life. It was such a relief to have someone to talk to who could help me cope.

SAVE has always been readily available to provide our agency with critical incident stress debriefing and provide training to our staff on a variety of employment issues.

SAVE Employee Assistance Program
A program of the Council on Alcoholism and Drug Abuse

PO Box 28
Santa Barbara, CA 93101
www.cadasb.org

For more information about SAVE, or to get a quote on any of our services or trainings, please contact:

Victoria Rightmire
SAVE Program Director
email: vrightmire@cadasb.org
805.962.5387

How SAVE can support your employees.

Why choose SAVE?

Local, personal service.

Professional experience. Satisfied clients.

Contact SAVE: 805.962.5387

Our Services

Professional Growth

Employee Trainings

Counseling Services

Financial Consultations

Legal Guidance

Mediation

Sexual Harrassment Training

Critical IncidentStress Debriefing

Our Services

Professional Growth

Employee Trainings

Counseling Services

Financial Consultations

Legal Guidance

Mediation Services

Sexual Harassment Training

Critical Incident Stress Debriefing

What Clients Are Saying

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Contact SAVE:
805.962.5387

Sexual
Harrassment Training

Critical Incident
Stress Debriefing