Taking Care of Employee Emotional Health is Smart Business -Heads Up Business Offers Customized Workplace Behavioral Health

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(Free-Press-Release.com) December 7, 2010 -- Orchard Park, N.Y. December 7, 2010. Success Stories, Inc., a management and marketing consulting firm in Orchard Park, New York since 1990, has launched Heads Up Business as a new service. Heads Up Business offers every company a uniquely crafted behavioral health array of services to meet the needs of their workforce.

Depression is now the primary reason employees are not coming to work. According to reports from Mental Health America, depression is as costly as heart disease or AIDS to the US economy, costing over $43.7 billion in absenteeism from work (over 200 million days lost from work each year), lost productivity and direct treatment costs. Depression tends to affect people in their prime working years and may last a lifetime. This fact includes those caring for a family member with a severe depression. Older adults have the highest rate of suicide and, in ever-increasing numbers are increasing abuse of alcohol and misuse of medication. Many employees have their aging parents living with them or they serve as the primary caregiver. The employee, a spouse or child may also have mental illness. This sense of family obligation can lead to missing work days or being distracted at work which impacts productivity, and, in some settings, overall safety.

President, Tom McNulty – a consultant with a long track record in behavioral health services and advocacy, created Heads Up Business.

The new service will offer workplace education, executive consultation on matters such as mergers, downsizing, reorganization, human resource policy development and intervention and support with treatment placement.

“I gets calls every week from friends and business colleagues about getting linked to the right therapist or what to do with a troubled employee who is valuable to the company but is causing problems. These scenarios are happening in every business in our community. The cost to reach out and help an employee is far less than replacing them. This is not new information, yet in this economy we must protect our greatest resources. In most organizations, that resource is your employees,” McNulty stated.

McNulty has more than 30 years experience including many years in senior management and as a therapist for years in Florida. While serving as an executive at BryLin Hospitals, McNulty created Progressive Corporate Care.

Heads Up Business fee structure will include fee for service and annual contracts based on the size of the workforce. “Heads Up Business is a much more personal and cost-effective contracts than what is currently available or a service that may have already been dropped by companies because of cost and utilization issues. We want companies to embrace the belief and value statement that employees in emotional harmony and balance are productive employees and productive employees improve company bottom lines,” McNulty said.

Heads Up Business is offered through Success Stories, Inc. For more information, call (716) 481-4578 or visit www.successstoriesinc.net. Heads Up Business can be found on Facebook.

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