Our Services
NABS announces the return of professional Workshops. Acquire valuable skills and knowledge, which can be applied to your work and personal life.
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- Financial Counseling
- Career Management Counseling
- National Workshops
- NABS CareerSite
- Personal Counseling
- Telephone Legal Advisory
- Family Services Employee Assistance Programs (FSEAP) - NABS Canada counseling partner since 1983.
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Financial Counseling
- Student Debt Management
- Money Management & Budgeting
- Techniques for maintaining FINANCIAL goals
- Credit Counseling for orderly payment of debt
- Advocacy with Creditors
- “Surviving a Layoff”
- Debt Management and Bankruptcy
Career Management Counseling
- Assessment of Individuals’ career challenges, providing pragmatic tools, support, ideas and motivation within these areas
- Development of Resume, Marketing Letter/Qualification Briefs
- Strategic Planning for Interviews/Networking
- Interviewing Skills-Videotaped
- Transferable Skills Assessment
National Workshops
Management Team Workshops
Riding the Rollercoaster
This Workshop is designed to assist managers and supervisors who have been charged with the responsibility of implementing change initiatives.
Creating Employee Engagement
This workshop will focus on the business case for why employee engagement is a key success strategy in today’s competitive marketplace and also describe proven strategies that increase engagement.
Depression: The Hidden Disorder
This workshop will dispel common myths about depression and increase understanding about the disorder, its causes and relationship to physical health and available treatments. It will also increase your knowledge of best practices for return to work.
From Vets to Nets: Managing the Multigenerational Workforce
The following topics are covered in this session:
- Definition and Description of Engagement
- Description of the 4 age cohorts present in today’s workplace
- Engagement strategies focusing on: recruitment, talent, management and succession planning
Managing Conflict With Style
This workshop is designed to help participants identify their primary and backup conflict resolution styles.
Employee Workshops
Managing Multiple Life Demands
This workshop will help you to understand the cycle of stress, discontent and fatigue due to excessive demands and to learn strategies to achieve greater control over satisfaction from home, family, personal and work demands.
7 Simple Rules: Living Well with Stress!
This workshop will help you to understand the impact of stress on your health and productivity and learn to enhance or reinforce effective strategies to manage stress.
Managing Conflict with Style
This workshop will help you to identify primary and backup conflict resolution styles and assess the advantages and disadvantages of each conflict resolution.
Resiliency: It’s the bounce that counts
Promoting resiliency is clearly the direction for today’s rapidly changing workplace. Resiliency goes beyond and before stress management establishing a well of personal resources from which employees can draw upon in times of stress and change.
Riding the Wave: Managing Transitions
This workshop is designed to assist individuals who have to manage the transitions in their lives as a result of organizational change.
Surviving or Thriving
This workshop is designed to raise awareness of the physical, cognitive and emotional impacts of organizational change for employees. The overall goal is to give employees a set of tools to help them cope with the constant change in their work lives.
For more information or to sign up for a group workshop please contact:
Leslie Clare
Executive Director
416-962-0446 x 223
lclare@nabs.org
or
Jennifer Ruffo
Project Coordinator
416-962-0446 x 222
jenniferr@nabs.org
NABS CareerSite
The NABS CareerSite was launched on October 16, 2006. NABS is planning to launch a companion French-language CareerSite in 2007, as an extension of it’s Quebec-based chapter – BEC - Bénévolat d'Entraide aux Communicateurs.
Job posting on the CareerSite will be offered to employers for free for the first six months from the initial launch time.
To post a job or your resume, please click here.
Personal Counseling
Social Workers or psychologists employed by Family Services provide confidential counseling in:
- Managing Work-Life Balance
- Stress, depression or relationship issues from family, marital, financial or legal problems
- Issues related to organizational change, shiftwork, conflict with co-workers or a supervisor
- Separation and loss resulting from marital separation or divorce, or death of a loved one
- Parenting issues or elder care
- Substance abuse
Telephone Legal Advisory
Access to Legal Advisory Services provides telephone consultation with a lawyer regarding:
- Real Estate
- Family Wills & Estate
- Landlord & Tenant
- Employment
- Criminal & Civil Litigation
- Consumer Law
- Motor Vehicle
NOTE - Average length of call is 15-30 minutes and does not replace the hiring of a lawyer.
Family Services Employee Assistance Programs (FSEAP) - NABS Canada counseling partner since 1983.
Family Services Employee Assistance Programs (FSEAP) is a national integrated network of partner EAP professionals and the exclusive service provider for NABS Canada and our regional chapters - NABSWEST (Vancouver) and BEC (Montreal).
FSEAP roots are in community-based counseling services. Partners in the FSEAP integrated network have decades of experience working in, with, and for their communities. All counselors have diverse backgrounds and expertise and their services reflect local needs.
FSEAP provides employee assistance programs to 5,000 organizations with 1,000,000 employees and work sites from Halifax to Victoria. With over 1,000 service locations, they are one of Canada’s largest providers and this network allows NABS Canada to offer bilingual services to advertising and media professionals in virtually every market in Canada.
The NABS/FSEAP national network offers:
- a broad range of core services that are available throughout Canada
- standardized quality controls to ensure the highest level of service at every location
- centralized program administration
- A leader in the field of EAP
Since FSEAP was founded as Canada’s first EAP provider in 1975, FSEAP has led the industry in service innovation and value - demonstrating through their work with more than 1,000,000 employees and their families, an impressive return on investment on EAP spending for more than 5,000 corporate accounts.
They have 21 years of experience servicing NABS clients.
The FSEAP network’s National Quality Assurance Standards set requirements for staff, services and programs. Counselors hold a minimum of a master’s degree with five years’ experience and are directly supervised. NABS conducts an annual program evaluation with FSEAP to ensure that our services are meeting clients’ objectives.
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NABS Toll Free
The NABS Toll Free Number: 1-800-661-NABS (6227). It’s a national toll-free line for anyone wanting information about NABS and its services, or referrals to other assistance available. Call us anytime during regular business hours, 9:00 am - 5:00 pm (EST) for a personal response or 24 hours to leave a message.
The NABS HELPLINE
The NABS HELPLINE (1-888-355-5548) offers a confidential short-term solution focused service to anyone in the industry, or members of their families, throughout Canada. The NABS HELPLINE provides telephone counseling or referral services such as Legal Advisory Service, child and elder care information and face-to-face counseling on personal and financial issues. Access to the service is through a toll-free line open 24 hours a day, seven days a week. All calls are handled by extensively trained FSEAP professionals and remain anonymous.