Responding to Deaths of Faculty, Staff and Students at UC, Berkeley— An Integrated Approach

SUMMARY

This article describes an important initiative designed to address the deaths of faculty, staff, and students at the University of California at Berkeley. Work-life and EAP practitioners can play a significant role in reducing the distress and lost work time associated with workplace deaths by helping employers to plan a response to employee and client deaths, and by participating in implementing that response. A model framework is presented to demonstrate the vital need for coordination and integration among many of the employers' programs, services, and activities in order to address deaths.

Key Words:

• Death
• grief
• employer response to death
• workplace death
• program evaluation matrix
• work culture evaluation
• workplace integration
• program integration
• program evaluation measures