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The Office of Personnel Management is asking agency leaders to take it up a notch to support federal employees\u2019 mental health and wellness.\nEvery agency\u2019s Employee Assistance Program (EAP) has a set of traditional offerings to help feds through personal and work-related issues \u2014 including mental health counseling, substance abuse treatment and financial and legal services. EAPs are voluntary programs that feds can opt into, when or if they\u2019re looking for those services.\nBut now OPM is calling on agencies to revamp their EAPs and start including even more resources for feds, to create what the agency called Employee Wellness Programs (EWPs). New employee wellness guidance, which the agency published in May, expands on OPM\u2019s EAP revitalization efforts.\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices