Union Assistance Program
ESI’s Union Assistance Program – Learn why our Member Assistance Program (MAP) offers more benefits, more services, and has better results than traditional MAPs. The personal issues and problems, which can result in problems on the job, fall into four categories. Just click on the problem icons below to see how Union Assistance Program can do more to assist your Members and help your leadership save jobs.
Professional
Benefits
- Career & Education
- Tools for Tough Times
- Drug Free Workplace and DOT Compliance Program
- Challenges of Military Deployment
- Legal Resources

This resource is intended to help parents and their children access some of the best online resources for post-secondary and higher learning. It includes tools, tips and resources for:
- Career Exploration and Planning
- Finding the Right College
- The Cost of College: Financial Aid and Scholarships
- Vocational, Military and Other Career Resources

If you’re experiencing sticker shock at the grocery store, stressing out over climbing debt or just trying to do more with less, we have some new tools and resources designed to provide some relief. “Tools for Tough Times” informational benefit is designed to help you cope with today’s tough financial pressures – whether it be finding a rideshare program in your area, learning how to avoid foreclosure on your home, finding a local heating assistance program, or tapping into ideas for saving money at the grocery store and cooking meals for less.
- Mortgages and Home Ownership
- Debt and Money Problems
- Financial Tools
- Heating and Home Energy
- Gas and Driving
- Frugal Living

To maintain DOT Safety Sensitive (driving staff) or a Drug-Free Workplace program, we offer complete training and support.
The turn-key approach contains all required elements:
- Compliance policies and procedures
- Approved online video training
- Optional web conference training
- UAP consultants to assist with implementation
- Member and supervisor awareness communication
- Reporting and Recordkeeping
- Links to UAP counseling resources and substance abuse professionals

Serving our nation in a military capacity is one of the most patriotic things a person can do – but it is not without its challenges for the service member and his or her family: Pre-deployment planning, family separation issues, money management, spouse employment, stress, parenting and child care, relocation, reunion and reacclimation and, all too often, grief. Returning service members face the challenge of reintegration in the family, the workplace, the community. Some will face the special challenges of coping with physical or psychological wounds, such as PTSD.

Professional legal services are provided for issues like DUI and divorce, not related to employment or medical concerns. We cover one in-depth telephonic consultation with an attorney per legal issue. In addition, UAP Members may consult these network attorneys thereafter at a 25% reduction in published fees.
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