About EADV

Benefits

EADV is a proactive collaboration of Massachusetts-based businesses that consider all forms of violence, including domestic violence, a serious workplace issue and recognize the need to respond to it. Workplace violence is never an isolated incident—it is enmeshed in a wide spectrum of disruptive behavior impacting employers and employees. EADV educates employers about the financial, legal and psychological impacts of violence on the workplace, and identifies resources and formulates best practices for prevention, education and outreach. EADV encourages more productive workplaces through a dynamic, interactive program that builds relationships with human resources, security, safety, law enforcement, management and your EAP. This effective approach promotes an environment that is intolerant of all forms of violence, is safe for all employees, and is supportive of victims and their families.

Members become active collaborators in a statewide network of experts and businesses working together to effectively address the causes and effect of violence in the workplace.

Membership includes:

• Awareness and resource materials to help create a workplace environment that is safe, efficient and productive for all employees.
  
  
• Through alliances with national, state and community based domestic violence and workplace violence prevention programs, EADV host regular events highlighting the impact of violence on employers.
  
  
• Updates employers on recent legal developments, completed research impacting the workplace and other pertinent information the employer needs to obtain in a concise and practical manner.
  
  
• Opportunity to network and collaborate with other business, share policies and consult on intervention initiatives.
  
  
• Invitations to quarterly meetings (Boston, Worcester, Springfield or the Cape)
  
  
• Quarterly newsletters
  
  
• Access to state and national resource materials and model policies, as well as local resources for employee assistance
  
  
• Being known as an organization proactively working in the community to confront violence in the workplace and raising awareness of domestic violence.

EADV has developed resources and other relevant materials for use by businesses to create a workplace that is safe and productive for all employees. To best ensure that employers are prepared to respond to violence, EADV assists employers with dynamic and effective training programs and targeted consultation.

EADV offers the following services with special member rates:

Consultation

• Provides model policies addressing workplace and domestic violence
  
  
• Reviews and updates domestic and workplace violence policies, and ensures these coordinate with other employer policies.
  
  
• Establishes best practice safety planning for victims of domestic violence
  
  
• Identifies resources and formulates best practices for prevention and response as tailored to each employer's unique goals, needs and circumstances.

• Audits current policies and safety plans, then assists employer in developing:
  
  
  • Effective customized policies and reporting procedures,
    
  • Workplace safety and security plans
    
  • Security response systems
  
  
  
• Customizes workplace outreach program to create a climate that encourages victims of domestic and workplace violence to disclose abuse that affects their performance and/or their safety in the workplace.
  
  
• Develops safety guidelines focusing on hiring, terminating and disciplining of high-risk employees.
  
  
• Develops guidelines for addressing batterers in the workplace, including progressive disciplinary recommendations for union member batterers.

Training

• On-site customized training of senior management, supervisors and employees in the legal requirements, financial ramifications and effective tools for recognizing and assisting employees who show signs of abuse and safely confront and manage violent situations.
  
  
• Dynamic programs tailored to the employer by assessing training needs and ensuring corporate goals and objectives are met.
  
  
• Where possible and at request of the employer, EADV will integrate the expertise of local workplace security advisors, members of the law enforcement system, employment attorneys, domestic violence experts, and/or survivors of domestic and workplace violence.
  
  
• Develops awareness and resource materials for use by employers to proactively create a workplace environment that is safe, efficient and productive for all employees.

Training is most effective when it targets first senior executives and company managers, followed by all employees.