Chestnut Global Partners Brazil Launches EAP Flex Service

SAO PAULO, June 4, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Chestnut Global Partners Brazil (CGPB), a pioneer in providing Employee Assistance Programs (EAPs) across Brazil, today announced the launch of EAP FLEX, a new service that combines traditional EAP with wellness, disability, high risk maternity, and compliance management programs, designed to promote employee well-being, improve performance, reduce absenteeism and avoid penalties for excessive occupational health costs.  

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EAPs are offered by many employers as a complement to other company-sponsored benefits, and are designed to help employees deal with personal problems that might adversely impact their job performance, health, and well-being. EAP Flex is the latest offering from CGPB, an organization that brings over 14 years of experience in providing culturally aware, outcomes-based assistance programs to Brazilian workforces. A subsidiary of U.S.-based Chestnut Global Partners, an EAP and wellness company operating in over 130 countries, CGPB takes an analytical approach to determining the needs of each client and employee, taking into consideration the cultural norms and barriers in each country.

Unlike the comparatively narrow focus of other EAP providers, EAP Flex gives organizations the ability to choose from a broad range of health and wellness programs beyond traditional EAP services. Additionally, by providing health and wellness services that lower employee disability, EAP Flex enables customers to avoid the stiff penalties levied on companies with occupational health costs that exceed the average of other Brazilian companies in the same industry.  Customers can still choose to implement EAP and wellness services individually.

"Our market research shows that the currently existing, highly structured EAP´s with fixed protocols do not meet the needs of the market," said Ligia Antunes, CGPB´s EAP Director. "The Brazilian market is demanding that more services, addressing additional health and wellness needs, be delivered as part of an EAP. Our services will also apply local clinically recognized health and wellness management protocols, based on the unique risk profile of each client. Additionally, by providing services to lower disability claims, the new service will allow companies to avoid fines and the financial burdens that would otherwise result."  

CGPB is based on Chestnut Global Partners' (CGP) successful "glocal" model, wherein CGP provides "global" coordination of networks of local providers who implement and manage culturally relevant programs. This approach lowers barriers and increases utilization in each country where these services are provided (Brazil, Russia, China, India, and across Central Europe). Headquartered in Sao Paulo, CGPB is ideally positioned to efficiently deploy culturally aware expertise and resources to alleviate mental health, behavioral, financial and legal problems, while promoting employee well-being and safety, across the entire country. 

About Chestnut Global Partners Brazil
(a Subsidiary of Chestnut Global Partners, LLC)

Chestnut Global Partners Brazil (CGPB) is a behavioral health organization based in Sao Paulo, Brazil. CGPB offers a full range of culturally aware employee assistance and related workplace services to both Brazilian and multi-national companies. CGPB combines traditional EAP with wellness, disability, high risk maternity, and compliance management programs, designed to promote employee well-being, improve performance, reduce absenteeism and avoid penalties for excessive occupational health costs.

Chestnut Global Partners, headquartered in Bloomington, IL, provides employee assistance and wellness programs to companies in over 130 countries. Chestnut Global Partners' Division of Commercial Science develops and deploys scientific assessment technologies, outcome measures, and analytical methodologies so that EAPs, wellness companies, disease management entities and purchasers the world over can determine the effects and/or worth of their programs. For more, visit www.chestnutglobalpartners.org.

Daniele Kallas
Chestnut Global Partners do Brazil, Ltda.
Telephone: 55 11 2639-4301
[email protected]

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