Employee Assistance Program (EAP)

The MaineHealth Resources for Living Employee Assistance Program (EAP) is free and available to all MaineHealth care team members and household family members, whether or not they participate in our health plan.

Children living away from home are covered up to age 26. Services are confidential and available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. This program is designed to support your health, well-being and daily life assistance especially during challenging times. Watch this overview video.

Program Features

12 free, confidential counseling sessions	With a licensed professional counselor in-person: telephonic, televideo or chat counseling sessions 12 visits per issue, per year, per family member
Talkspace chat therapy & televideo	Send secure text, video or audio messages to your counselor, who will respond within one working day up to five days a week. One week of text messaging counts as one session. Schedule to meet online for 30-minute televideo sessions. Each televideo session counts as one visit. Register at ResourcesforLiving.com or call 833-657-2104 to get started. Click here to get started with Talkspace Download our Talkspace Flyer to learn more
Financial support	30-minute telephonic consultation per issue
Legal services	30-minute in-person or telephonic consultation per issue 60-minute telephonic ID theft consultation for victims of ID theft

Note: If you have completed 12 sessions of therapy and would like to begin therapy on a different topic, you must call Resources for Living at 833-657-2104 to initiate a new set of 12 sessions.

For Talkspace, once you call Resources for Living, an additional 12 sessions will be loaded into your private room and you can keep the same provider if you choose.

Additional Services

Short-term counseling to meet your goals. You can choose local counseling face-to-face or televideo counseling to help with issues like relationships, setting and reaching goals, stress and anxiety, work/life balance and more.
Emotional well-being support. In addition to counseling sessions, you can also call Resources for Living 24 hours a day for in-the-moment emotional well-being support.
Daily life assistance. Resources for Living can help you find child and elder care, caregiver support, school and college planning, convenience services and more.
Legal and financial services. Resources for Living can help you with goals like divorce/child custody, estate planning, debt and budgeting, identity theft, tax planning, mediation and more.
Online resources. The website is available in both English and Spanish. You will find articles on a wide range of topics and e-tools, a Depression Resource Center, webinars and videos.
Discounts. In addition to PerkSpot, Resources for Living has a discount center, with deals for travel and activities to stay active.

Get started today

Download the "Resources for Living" mobile app today from your device’s app store.
Activate your personal account at ResourcesforLiving.com
- User name: MaineHealth
- Password: MaineHealth

Contact Resources for Living

Toll-free 833-657-2104; TTY: 711

When you call, a specially trained professional will guide you to the resources and support that can address your needs. Support is available in 150 languages: Arabic, French, Khmer, Lingala, Portuguese, Somali and Vietnamese.

^{The MaineHealth employee assistance program (EAP) is administered by Resources For Living, LLC. Resources for Living replaces HealthAdvocate in 2023.}