Compassionate Conversations (Issue 29)
Tips for employers on how to recognize and compassionately respond to substance use challenges in the workplace.
Articles by YouTurn Team
Compassionate Conversations
Your employee arrives late again, irritable, thinner than before. You've noticed the pattern but dreaded the conversation. Yet three in four people with substance use disorder work. When employers spe…
Peer Recovery Coaches
A person in recovery sits across from someone who has walked the same painful path. The peer coach doesn't have a clinical degree, but they have something more: their own story of struggle and surviva…
4 Considerations for an Employee Support Program
A manager notices an employee's missed deadlines and withdrawn behavior. Before assuming performance problems, she connects him with the company's support program. The conversation changes everything.…
Supporting Employees Through Addiction and Mental Illness
A manager notices an employee's performance slipping, attendance irregular. Before assuming the worst, she has tools to help. Workplaces are discovering that supporting employees through substance use…
Finding Purpose in Recovery
A parent works a full shift, then volunteers through the evening. An employee balances job and community service. Purpose isn't about saving the world in one dramatic act. In recovery, it lives in sma…