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About the Presenter
Facilitator – Bern Beidel, M.Ed., CEAP
Bern Beidel, M.Ed., CEAP is the Director of the Office of Employee Assistance at the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington, DC – a service provided under the Office of the Chief Administrative Officer of the House. Bern has served the House in that capacity since 1991 when he was hired to develop and initiate the House’s employee assistance operation. He is responsible for the ongoing planning, development, management, evaluation, and continued enhancement and integration of the House’s employee assistance service into the larger organization, including assuring its continuity of operations during emergency or disaster response situations. Prior to joining the House, he developed the EAP for the New Jersey State Police in 1981 and managed the service throughout the 1980s. The EAP effort in the New Jersey State Police was initially funded through a project grant from the National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) and served as a national demonstration project for the law enforcement community throughout the decade. His initial EA experience in the private sector came in the late 1970’s as the recipient of another federal project grant to develop an EAP consortium serving small and mid-size businesses and public sector organizations in rural Virginia. Prior to his EA career, Bern served as a Drug and Alcohol Educator with the U.S. Coast Guard during his military career. Bern has written extensively about the EA field over the years, focusing particularly on the integration of EAPs into the workplace and the larger organization; the role of the EAP in the organization’s disaster response and continuity of operations; the vital role of program evaluation in the management of the EA service; and other best practices and standards of operations, such as follow-up of clients and mentoring of new EA practitioners. He holds a Master’s degree in Education from the University of Pittsburgh with a specialization in Rehabilitation Counseling and Alcoholism studies.
About the Program
The final session will be primarily an experiential session, giving participants the opportunity to experiment with a chosen model or methodology of decision-making by working through several ethical dilemmas. This session will encourage small group discussion of the ethical issues, situations, dilemmas, and scenarios raised by the participants or the facilitator, providing the opportunity to apply the ethics methodologies or model for decision-making in an effort to reach consensus on resolving the ethical dilemma or challenge presented, and to build the participants’ skills in applying a preferred methodology in one’s day-to-day employee assistance work.
Participants will have a chance to ask questions.
Training Materials
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