Hope Community Resources offers a great benefits package.  Even with the rising costs of health care, Hope has maintained its package with little to no impact on employees.  Some of the benefits available to eligible Hope employees include:

• Vacation, sick, and holiday pay
• Medical, prescription, dental, and vision insurance
• Life insurance
• Short- and long-term disability insurance
• 403(b) retirement plan with an employer match
• Employee Assistance Program
• Wellness seminars
• Tuition reimbursement and training opportunities

This list represents a summary of the benefits available to eligible employees. Please contact the Benefits Specialist in the Human Resources Department at 1-800-478-0078 for a more complete description of benefits and eligibility. 

What makes Hope different than other employers? Well many things set us apart, but one of the things you hear about from our employees past and present is our wellness initiative.  Hope has been actively promoting employee and corporate wellness for over ten years.  

However, unlike other companies who have only focused on physical wellness, Hope has been a leader in emotional wellness efforts.  We earned the Psychologically Healthy Workplace Award from the Alaska Psychological Association in 2007, and in 2008 we won a very competitive national award for Best Practice from the American Psychological Association. 

We have an Employee Assistance Program that provides an opportunity for our employees and their direct family members to have up to three free counseling sessions at a local private clinic.  These sessions are completely confidential.   Our wellness efforts also include free monthly emotional wellness seminars conducted in our learning center by Hope staff.   These seminars encourage our employees to take a much needed break from their day to day jobs (while still being paid) and focus on things like learning to communicate effectively, the importance of gratitude, work-life balance, how to handle change and much more.   In fact, we have developed curricula for over forty different emotional wellness seminars.  Even better, Hope has also taken the initiative to open-up these seminars to other direct services agency employees in the community at no cost to them.

There is so much more to our wellness efforts than what we have listed here.  A sustained commitment to wellness is just one of many ways that Hope is working towards a better work experience for our employees.