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Stories for January, 2014
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New for the New Year!  

 

Have you set up your Capital EAP Website Access yet? If not, there are more reasons than ever to do it now!  

 

We've added new features and tools exclusively for you and your family members like online screenings, workshops registration, downloadable forms and more, but to use them, you need to register!  

 


Registering is easy. All you need is your organization's Web Access Code and two minutes of time online.  If you don't have a web access code here are your options:
  1. Ask your HR or Personnel Department for your web-access code 
  2. Call Capital EAP at (518) 465-3813 and speak to the Program Administrator
  3. Send a request through the website (You must include your organization, position and phone number)
  4. Send an email request to Questions@capitaleap.org  (You must include your full name, organization, position and phone number)
For additional assistance, call Jennifer Manziano at (518) 465-3813 Ext 117, or email her at JManziano@capitalcounseling.org.

Once you've registered, here's what new!..

  
Post-Holiday Blues
The holiday season can be a time of relaxation and joy but also one of extreme stress. With presents to buy, food to prepare and family to see, the holidays bring out the best and worst for us.

What's more surprising? Psychologists find that many people feel a natural let-down after the holidays. Without something exciting to look forward to, we become focused on bills, untouched gym memberships and the dreary weather.

 

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Kids and "Entertainment Violence"
For all a parent might do to monitor the influences on their kids, everything from enrolling them in positive activities to controlling who they hang out or play with, studies indicate that one of the strongest influences on kids' values and at least some of their behavior may be the television.

As with other statistics, those on the "average" American family and its TV viewing habits are more of a portrait than a snapshot; suggesting the overall pattern, but usually blurring the details.  They tend to leave out those households where one or multiple televisions are on constantly, as well as those where the TV is hardly ever turned on at all.  Still, those statistics are troubling because they suggest that as many as two-thirds of all American infants and toddlers watch a screen an average of 2 hours a day, and that kids under age 6 watch an average of about 2 hours of screen media a day, primarily TV and video games.

 

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Capital EAP 2014 Winter Workshop Schedule

The 2014 Winter Workshop schedule is now available! Open and FREE to all Capital EAP Members (including family members), you may now register by logging into CapitalEAP.org and selecting "Workshops & Events" from the Members Only menu.

 

Go there now!  

 

You can also call (518) 465-3813, extension 117 to register and for more information.
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Tuesday, January 28
10:00am - 12:00pm

at Bethlehem Public Library
451 Delaware Ave, Delmar, NY 12054

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Tuesday, February 4
10:00am - 12:00pm

at Albany County Offices
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