The District's Employee Assistance Program (EAP) is a FREE confidential counseling and work-life service. The EAP provides support and resources to help employees resolve personal issues and identify needed resources.  These services include:

• • Available to employees and their household members.
  • Six (6) FREE confidential face-to-face, telephonic, or virtual counseling sessions (per issue, per year) to address everyday situations such as stress, anxiety, depression, family situations, drug and alcohol use, relationships, grief and loss, and work-related topics.
  • Legal and financial services.  A free 30-minute consult per legal/financial matter (plus a 25% discount on select services after the initial consult).
  • Unlimited work/life services to help find the right service for your needs such as childcare, eldercare, and convenience services including everything from nutrition classes to finding the right dog walker.
  • Wellness coaching.  You get 4 professional wellness sessions with a personal coach.  As well as 4 sessions of parental coaching and lactation consults, and a six week virtual smoking cessation or stress reduction program.

• For FASTEST service call MINES at 1-800-873-7138 (Company Code = ccsdeap) 

  • • If the situation is urgent or a crisis, dial 1 for immediate assistance.

• OR go to my.cherrycreek > EAP tile > click “Access Your EAP” > Choose a service > Register.  Company Code is ccsdeap

Check out the comprehensive live of behavioral health solutions at United Healthcare below...

UHC has teamed up with Amwell to offer expanded access to mental health services. In addition to their existing mental health options, you can now schedule one-on-one 45 minute virtual counseling sessions with an Amwell mental health therapist (no referral needed). Appointments are available 24 hours a day/ 365 days a year. Their therapists can help you with stress, anxiety, depression, bipolar disorder, OCD, and PTSD. UHC members go to patients.amwell.com/ for more info.

Are you new to mindfulness meditation and unsure of how to get started?  Or maybe you already have a practice and are looking for some additional guided meditations? Our "Map to Mindfulness" Flyer has a variety of mindfulness exercises and meditations of various lengths and difficulties. A paper copy of this flyer should be available to you in your lactation space/zen den as well. Just can the QR code to the left or click HERE to view!

Includes meditation tools, daily mood tracking, life skill collections, and a personalized roadmap to support your journey to better mental health.  FREE for UHC members.

The Calm Health app combines the sleep and mindfulness content of Calm with support for your mental and physical health. Get audio and video content written by psychologists, access mental health screening tools and try mindfulness exercises. All at your own pace.  With Calm Health, you’ll get:

• Mental health screenings to get personalized recommendations and track your journey

• Library of stories and soundscapes for help falling and staying asleep

• Activities, like breathing exercises, for help building long-term resilience or managing emotions in the moment

• Meditations designed to help you focus and learn to calm your thoughts

***Need help registering?  CLICK HERE for the full set of instructions.

The Headspace app offers guided meditations, mindfulness exercises, sleep support, and focus tools to help users stress less, sleep better, and improve overall well-being.  

Education employees get FREE access by visiting https://www.headspace.com/educators .

The Insight Timer app offers a wealth of guided meditations and insightful talks designed to enhance your daily well-being, addressing areas such as sleep, anxiety, and stress management.  Download the app and start using for free.

The Virtual Calming Room is a place for staff, students, and families to find tools to actively manage stress and participate in strategies that support mental well-being. 

Grab a racquetball, bouncy ball, tennis ball, or dog toy and enjoy rolling out your stress at the comfort of your own desk!   Click HERE to check out these short but satisfying videos that will help set your feet, shoulders, back, and neck at ease!

PSI is dedicated to promoting awareness of mental health issues related to childbearing and providing free resources so every woman and family has access to information and social support.  PSI's support groups cover a wide range of needs that focus on adoptive and foster parents, Black mothers, NICU parents, Perinatal mood support, dads, queer and trans parents, fertility challenges, pregnancy and infant loss and more. Click the link above for more information or check out the quick links below:

• Online Support Groups - Click HERE

• Perinatal Mental Health Disorders - Click HERE

• Need help now?  Call or text the PSI Helpline at 1-800-944-4773

If you are wondering that maybe you need more than self-care, try taking a screening. A screening is one of the quickest and easiest ways to determine whether you are experiencing symptoms of a mental health condition.  From Mental Health Colorado, there are a number of free screenings that range from anxiety, depression, alcohol and drugs to mood disorders and also youth mental health screening too. 

Feeling stressed?  Take this stress assessment to learn more how stress may be affecting you and how severe your symptoms really are.

Think you might be depressed?  Not sure?  Take this depression self-assessment.

The questionnaire is designed to help in the self-assessment of alcohol consumption and to identify any implications for your health and wellbeing, now and in the future. It consists of 10 questions on alcohol use. The responses to these questions can be scored and the total score provides feedback and in some cases offers specific advice.