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January 22, 1998
LAGNAIPPE
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Employee Assistance Program offers help to Stennis personnel
A company’s success in the 21 st century will depend largely upon the health and productivity of its workforce. Estimates show that 20 percent of all employees experience problems that, at one time or another, can reduce job performance.
Employees who suffer from personal problems tend to lose selfesteem, as well as their ability to be productive members of the work group. The result—the entire work community suffers.
Stennis Space Center’s Employee Assistance Program (EAP) is available to employees and their families who face problems that affect job performance. Tim Donohoe, EAP coordinator with Johnson Controls World Services Inc., helps employees who experience personal or social problems. Such problems include physical illness, emotional disturbance, alcohol or other chemical substance abuse, or problems with marital, financial, legal or job-related matters.
Tim Donohoe, SSC Employee Assistance Program Coordinator, provides information to employees on a variety of topics ranging from various disorders to referral sources.
Donohoe serves as a bridge between a troubled employee and the resources available in the community, such as professional counseling. He provides individual counseling, follow-up and referrals; psychological assessment and testing; and supervisory
training and consultation.
The EAP is part of Occupational Health Services directed by Dr.
Maurice Taquino. EAP services are available to employees of any agency at Stennis, as well as members of their immediate family living in their household.
“The premise is that emotionally healthy people make better and more productive employees,” Donohoe said.
Stennis began offering the Employee Assistance Program in 1985. Donohoe and Taquino worked together to develop the policy and implemented the program.
Donohoe holds a master’s degree in clinical psychology from Mississippi State University and a bachelor’s in psychology and public health from the University of Minnesota. He is a licensed professional counselor under the Mississippi State Board of Examiners and is a certified clinical mental health counselor and a nationally certified counselor under the National Board for Certified Counselors Inc.
Donohoe’s office is located on the second floor of the Visitors Center, Building 1200. He can be reached at Ext. 3005.
Slidell students help Stennis Space Center make successful transition
A framed collage of the Space Shuttle and engine testing was presented to the students that assisted Lockheed Martin in the SDS97 conversion. Pictured front is student Martin Zapisek, second row from left, Bill Little, Vo-Tech instructor; Lisa McFall, Pamela Simmons, and David Calderone, students; Myles Bernard, Lockheed Martin; Pamela Jones, student; Bill Stone, Lockheed Martin; Brian Robins, student; Gregory Menina, Lockheed Martin; James Impastato, student; Chris Antoni, vo-tech; and Randy Stewart, Lockheed Martin.
When NASA’s Stennis Space Center ^decided to upgrade its on-site computers to a standard set of hardware and software called SDS97 (Stennis Desktop Services 97), Lockheed Martin’s Information Systems Directorate began looking for the best way to accomplish the formidable task of upgrading about 1,000 computers at the center. That s when they discovered the Slidell Campus of Louisiana Technical College.
The college had worked with Lockheed Martin before, providing training for welders at the NASA Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans where the Space Shuttle’s external fuel tank is designed and assembled. But when Lockheed suggested using some of the students from the college to help upgrade Stennis’ desktop computers, some people were skeptical. Even Myles Bernard, telecommunications manager of the Information Systems Directorate at Stennis who was responsible for both the project and contacting the vo-tech. admits he didn’t believe the students were up to the task in the beginning
“I didn’t think you were going to get the job done,” he told them at an appreciation luncheon Dec. 10 at the Vo-Tech following the successful completion of the project. “You proved me wrong.”
The success of this project has led to the initiation of additional, niture coopera-
tion between the school and Lockheed. Vo-tech instructor Bill Little, who was in charge of the students working on the SDS97
project, has agreed to develop A+ certification training for Lockheed's own technicians at a greatly reduced price.