CBP Employee Assistance Program (EAP) offers a wide range of tools to support our workforce. Employees and family members can access toolkits, counselors, webinars, articles and more to help inform, educate and build resiliency.
Each month, CBPEAP features webinars, articles, tips and strategies on specific topics. View current and previous topics or access any of the featured resources below through the CBPEAP site (password: cbpeap).
2023
On-Demand Webinar: The Struggle Is Real: Strategies for Time Management
Meet your deadlines, be on time for meetings and stop procrastinating! Most of us can become overwhelmed when we have a lot to do - responsibilities at work, planning our kid's birthday party, and remembering all the details of daily life. This webinar will discuss realistic strategies for more effective time management. Some of the things we'll review are: managing email clutter, the roots of procrastination, and keeping yourself motivated.
Featured Article: Time Management Tips
Additional Resources: Time Management
On-Demand Webinar: Navigating the Death of a Loved One
Learning the basics of dealing with the administrative side of death can make the difficult journey a little easier. Learn how to get through standard paper work, dealing with banks and funeral homes, filing the death certificate, and other key aspects of handling your loved one's estate.
Featured Article: Grief and Loss: The Process of Healing
Additional Resources: Adult Grief and Loss
On-Demand Webinar: The Sandwich Generation: Multi-Generational Caregiving
Are you taking care of your children and your parents? Many middle-aged people find themselves stuck caring for both ends of the age spectrum - helping both their children and their parents navigate finances, social lives and changes in capacity for independence. This kind of caretaking can cause burnout and exhaustion. This webinar will review the phenomenon of the sandwich generation and how we can better manage the needs of our changing families. We'll discuss ways to have productive conversations with aging parents about their needs, ways to troubleshoot burn out as a caregiver and how to keep your own family running smoothly.
Featured Article: 6 Steps to Reduce Caregiver Stress
Additional Resources: Caregiver Support
On-Demand Webinar: Making Time for Everything: Dual Careers and Family Life
Two busy partners can make for a stressful household. Managing the unromantic tasks of daily life and household management can be difficult. Making time for the things that really matter - connecting, having fun, playing and resting - can be quite challenging. In this webinar, we will discuss ways to better manage your household and make time for what matters most. We will discuss the realities of busy, working partners and making the most of the time and energy we have.
Featured Article: Less is More: How to Simplify Your Life
Additional Resources: Focus on the Working Person
On-Demand Webinar: The Science of Happiness
Learn how to bring more happiness to your personal and professional life. Research supports that happy people feel better, do better, and live better. While this is great news, it still begs the question, why? And more importantly, how? During this webinar, we will explore the history and research behind this concept of happiness, how it relates to the various facets of your life, and what intentional activities you can do to increase your life satisfaction and fulfillment. There are many pathways to happiness, so let's get your journey started!
Featured Article: Looking at Happiness as a Choice
Additional Resources: Emotional Development
On-Demand Webinar: PTSD: Let's Get the Facts
You've heard about it. What is it, what are its causes, and how is it treated? This webinar will explore and discuss Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome. We will discuss the definition, common myths vs. facts, symptoms, relationship, self-care, and treatment.
2022
On-Demand Webinar: Goal Setting for Your Best Year Yet!
We all have things we say we'd like to do but, somehow, they never seem to get done. They might be as simple as reading a book or learning a new skill to taking a vacation or completing a project at work. Despite our stated desire to do these things, other priorities get in the way and we don't do them. In this webinar, you will get tools to help you identify what's really important to you and you'll learn how to set specific, attainable goals and develop workable plans for reaching them.
Featured Article: How to Make Your New Year's Resolutions Stick
Additional Resources: Goals and Aspirations
On-Demand Webinar: Work/Life Goal Setting
We are trying to keep too many balls in the air. But what can we let drop? In this webinar, you'll identifying what's really important to you, how to let go of the other things. You'll learn to set specific, attainable goals and develop a strategy for reaching them.
Featured Article: Balancing Your Home Life, Work Life and Free Time
Additional Resources: Work/Life Balance
On-Demand Webinar: Eat Your Way to Better Health
In addition to webinar, supplemental information is provided for use.
Featured Article: 'Health' Foods That Aren't
Additional Resources: Healthy Eating
On-Demand Webinar: Minimizing Worry to Maximize Your Life
Are you a worrywart? Nineteen million Americans are chronic worriers and 38 percent report worrying every day. We all worry at times, but if you constantly stress over everything in your life you may be developing a chronic worry habit that can lead to physical and mental health difficulties including stress-related illnesses, generalized anxiety disorder and depression. In this webinar, we will assist you in analyzing the root cause of worry, and strategies to break the cycle of worry.
Featured Article: Understanding the Stress/Health Connection
Additional Resources: Managing Stress
On-Demand Webinar: Grief, Illness, and Family Care-Giving
Most company’s scramble when they receive the most dreaded news that an employee has passed away, the CEO has been diagnosed with cancer, or an employee’s family member has experienced a significant loss or setback. While companies believe they have policies and procedures implemented to manage the situation, the real challenge is the day-to-day interaction with the employee or work group as the needs are personal and no two situations are the same. This webinar will provide everyone with practical advice for how to communicate, manage the situation, request the support needed to balance work with home life and provide guidance for co-workers to support and understand the challenges of both the employee and the employer.
Featured Article: What You Need to Know About Grief and Mourning
Additional Resources: Adult Grief and Loss
On-Demand Webinar: How to Talk to Your Partner About Money
We all have things we say we'd like to do but, somehow, they never seem to get done. They might be as simple as reading a book or learning a new skill to taking a vacation or completing a project at work. Despite our stated desire to do these things, other priorities get in the way and we don't do them. In this webinar, you will get tools to help you identify what's really important to you and you'll learn how to set specific, attainable goals and develop workable plans for reaching them.
Featured Article: Managing Money with Your Partner
Additional Resources: Family Budgeting
On-Demand Webinar: Working it Out in the Workplace
Most of us spend more than half of our waking hours at work. And a huge part of our satisfaction and productivity depends on the strength of our interpersonal relationships. Both for your own personal success and the success of the organization, it's essential to create and maintain positive relationships. During this webinar, we'll explore common challenges and provide you with steps for navigating them.
Featured Article: Prevent Misunderstanding Your Team
Additional Resources: Interpersonal Relationships & Coworkers
On-Demand Webinar: As Our Parents Agent
Aging is part of life. Preparing to care for the changing needs of an aging parent though, may not be easy or simple. Sometimes we need help identifying what kind of assistance or understanding a parent might need. We may have trouble altering our expectations or exploring how to help our parents make adjustments. Whether it is regarding household chores or duties, financial assistance or dealing with family conflicts, there are ways to age flexibly and with more ease. In this webinar we will discuss: the stages of aging and how to assess a parent’s needs at each stage, how to initiate and have difficult family conversations, finding support solutions for emotional, financial, social and health problems, and balancing self-care with caregiver responsibilities.
Featured Article: Effectively Caring for Aging Parents
Additional Resources: Caregiver Support
On-Demand Webinar: Navigating Divorce
While divorce is almost always difficult to go through, you can come out of it feeling stronger and more self-aware than before. Regardless of where you are in the process, you can empower yourself with information, tools, and resources to support you during and after your divorce.
Featured Article: Keeping Control During Divorce
Additional Resources: Getting a Divorce
On-Demand Webinar: Managing Your Finances Paycheck to Paycheck
Are you tired of scrambling for cash a few days before your next paycheck? Do you have money set aside for emergencies? Are you working on major financial goals like paying for your children’s college education or your retirement? Learn how to create your budget, set financial goals, and then find the money to fund them.
Featured Article: How to Make a Budget
Additional Resources: Personal Budgeting
On-Demand Webinar: Mindset for Success
We all have the ability to harness a mindset that allows us to deal with challenging events more effectively, turn "failures" into growth opportunities, and experience a greater sense of contentment. Get strategies for making simple shifts in thinking that can lead to great change.
Featured Article: Techniques for Improving Sleep
Additional Resources: Goals and Aspirations
On-Demand Webinar: Deep Relaxation for Better Sleep
Mind/body relaxation is one of the most important factors in falling asleep, staying asleep, and getting restorative sleep. Learn daytime relaxation exercises, instant momentary relaxation exercises, and techniques for relaxing into sleep and back into sleep from nighttime awakenings.
