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***I will update this post with more details as I have time***
In the spring 2023 round of Recurrent Training one of the topics is the Employee Assistance Program (EAP). A program funded by the FAA that is entirely free to the user and confidential. The EAP is available to any memeber of your family living in your household. This includes parents, grandparents, children, spouses, domestic partners pretty much anyone other than an unrelated roommate.
Any services used through the EAP do not need to be reported on FAA form 8500 at your flight physical. Question 18 under Medical History asks, "HAVE YOU EVER IN YOUR LIFE BEEN DIAGNOSED WITH, HAD, OR DO YOU PRESENTLY HAVE ANY OF THE FOLLOWING?"
On page 35 second paragraph, it says, "Routine dental, eye, and FAA periodic medical examinations and consultations with an employer-sponsored employee assistance program (EAP) may be excluded unless the consultations were for the applicant's substance abuse or unless the consultations resulted in referral for psychiatric evaluation or treatment.
The only exception is when there is a "duty to report". Duty to report is when there is a threat of harm to yourself, a threat of harm to others, or a threat of child or elder abuse.
While a large portion of the EAP revolves around counseling (both individual and couples/group) and therapy the program goes exponentially further than that. You can acess all of the services via the Magellan Ascend website. Simply click "find my company" and search Federal Aviation Administration. Beyond therapists and counselors the EAP offers access to lifestyle coaches, legal services, financial wellbeing, community resources, senior care management, identity theft resolution and a discount center offering both local and national discounts on everything from pet insurance to theme park tickets to childcare to food delivery to travel arrangements.
In the spring 2023 round of Recurrent Training one of the topics is the Employee Assistance Program (EAP). A program funded by the FAA that is entirely free to the user and confidential. The EAP is available to any memeber of your family living in your household. This includes parents, grandparents, children, spouses, domestic partners pretty much anyone other than an unrelated roommate.
Any services used through the EAP do not need to be reported on FAA form 8500 at your flight physical. Question 18 under Medical History asks, "HAVE YOU EVER IN YOUR LIFE BEEN DIAGNOSED WITH, HAD, OR DO YOU PRESENTLY HAVE ANY OF THE FOLLOWING?"
On page 35 second paragraph, it says, "Routine dental, eye, and FAA periodic medical examinations and consultations with an employer-sponsored employee assistance program (EAP) may be excluded unless the consultations were for the applicant's substance abuse or unless the consultations resulted in referral for psychiatric evaluation or treatment.
The only exception is when there is a "duty to report". Duty to report is when there is a threat of harm to yourself, a threat of harm to others, or a threat of child or elder abuse.
While a large portion of the EAP revolves around counseling (both individual and couples/group) and therapy the program goes exponentially further than that. You can acess all of the services via the Magellan Ascend website. Simply click "find my company" and search Federal Aviation Administration. Beyond therapists and counselors the EAP offers access to lifestyle coaches, legal services, financial wellbeing, community resources, senior care management, identity theft resolution and a discount center offering both local and national discounts on everything from pet insurance to theme park tickets to childcare to food delivery to travel arrangements.
