Health & Wellness Resources

Throughout the year, the Office of Academic & Professional Development (OAPD) provides wellness webinars designed to help you navigate the challenges of balancing your work and personal life, achieve greater balance, and thrive. The webinars share information and valuable resources available to you through the many benefits Yale has to offer, including:

Stress and Resilience Town Hall
Presented by Jacob Tebes, PhD, professor of Psychiatry (Psychology), Yale Child Study Center, and of Public Health (Social and Behavioral Sciences). After a brief presentation by Dr. Tebes, attendees will be encouraged to share recent stresses they have experienced and share strategies that they have used to build resilience. This interactive town hall offers a safe environment to support faculty, staff, and students. 

Optum’s Emotional Well-being Resources for You and Your Family

Your Well-Being benefits at Yale offers confidential, counseling consultations for YSM faculty, staff, and their families at no-cost. Our onsite dedicated counselors, Amy Sceery, PhD, and Rebecca Colasanto, LCSW, are available for faculty, staff, postdoctoral associates, postdoctoral fellows, and Local 33 PhD graduate students for short-term support to assist with a range of issues, such as developing communication strategies to improve interpersonal effectiveness at work or home and addressing work-life issues, such as stress management, anxiety, burnout, and depression. You can schedule virtual and in-person appointments with either Amy or Rebecca through Optum's Employee Assistance Portal. Enrollment in the university medical plan is not required to participate.

Dependents and household members should contact 866-416-6586 or visit the website to access a broad network of Optum providers. Register by creating an anonymous username to browse the resources.

Yale's Benefits

Yale’s benefits offer a wide range of services and resources to help you navigate work, academics, and your personal life throughout critical life moments. Learn more about the full range of programs available by visiting Yale’s benefits website or by exploring additional information below:

Your Work + Life further helps balance the multiple responsibilities associated with your work, academics, and personal life, including:

• Child Care Subsidy Program
• College Coach*
  • *Review your full benefits and reward package based on your job category.
• Elder Care and Support Services
  • Register by creating an anonymous username to begin browsing resources

Your Finances supports important events in your life, whether you are buying a new home, sending your children to college, or saving for retirement, including:

• Education Assistance Program
• Public Student Debt Loan Forgiveness Program
• Homebuyer Program
• One on One Financial Coaching
• Planning for Retirement

Schedule a One-on-one Investment Education Meeting with a TIAA financial consultant. Call 800 732-8353, Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. – 8 p.m. (ET). Or visit www.tiaa.org/schedulenow.

Yale University offers additional opportunities to explore programs and activities across its campuses, including:

• Being Well at Yale
• Yale Arts & Culture
• Yale Chaplain’s Office
• Yale Campus Recreation

• Yale Advantages Discount Program is an employee discount program that provides eligible faculty and staff members with offers and discounts on travel, Broadway theater tickets, sports and outdoors, cellphones, computers, buying a car and so much more.

New Haven offers a wealth of diverse offerings including culture, community, and residential areas, and services. Yale University summarizes these offerings on Living in New Haven.

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