Employers Struggle With Mental Health Help as Traumas Pile Up
Nearly a third of workers plan to seek out employer-sponsored mental health care in the aftermath of shootings in Buffalo and Uvalde
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Americans, shaken from news of the Uvalde and Buffalo massacres, are looking to their employers for help.
Three out of ten employees who were emotionally affected by recent mass shootings have sought out their organization’s employee assistance program (EAP) or plan to do so at least in part due to the events, according to a Morning Consult survey of 2,226 working adults for Bloomberg News. The shootings follow the pandemic and war in Ukraine, both of which have resulted in an acceleration of requests for already-overwhelmed mental health care practitioners.