Resources to help make life easier
Mental health challenges can affect everyone. While we can’t always avoid mental health challenges, we can make healthy choices to help manage it, such as keeping up good habits, taking a well-being break, or utilizing the available resources.
It’s crucial to know that as a State of Indiana employee, help is available for all kinds of mental health needs, and you have access to a wide variety of programs, tools, and resources all designed to help you feel better.
Listed below are some of the resources available to you.
Employee Assistance Program
The Optum Employee Assistance Program (EAP) is a free service for all full-time State employees and those in their household. EAP gives you access to many tools to help you navigate life’s stressors including counseling sessions, caregiving support tools, legal and financial counseling, and online resources. These tools and resources are available 24/7 and are completely confidential.
You have 8 free face-to-face EAP counseling visits with a licensed therapist available per issue, per year. If you need help finding a provider in your community, ask for an Assisted Search. Optum will call providers in your area to make sure they are accepting new patients and have appointments available.
- Phone: 800-886-9747 (24/7 support)
- Website: liveandworkwell.com (Access code: Indiana)
- Optum Assist app: (Access code: Indiana). Available in the App Store and Google Play.
Other resources available through Optum EAP:
Anthem Resources
Sydney Health App
The Sydney Health mobile app provides quick access to your health plan information — all in one place. The app’s interactive chat feature helps you navigate your benefits with greater ease. Simply type your questions in the app to find answers quickly. Sydney Health can also suggest resources to help you understand your benefits, improve your health, and save money.
- Get started: Download the Sydney Health app. Register or log in to your account using your Anthem username and password.
- View the Sydney Health flyer to learn more.
Total Health, Total You
Anthem's Total Health, Total You program gives you access to a team of clinicians to help you navigate any healthcare need. They can help by providing behavioral health support if you or a family member are experiencing stress, depression and anxiety, or are dealing with drug and alcohol abuse or other personal issues.
- Get started: Call 877-814-9709.
- View the Total Health, Total You flyer to learn more.
Learn to Live
Anthem provides emotional well-being resources through its Learn to Live program. Learn to Live allows you to access personalized coaching, add friends or family members as “teammates” to keep you motivated and accountable, practice mindfulness with helpful reminders and tips, and attend live and on-demand webinars.
- Get started: Visit anthem.com or the Sydney Health app. Go to My Health Dashboard > Programs > Emotional Well-being Resources.
- View the Learn to Live flyer to learn more.
LiveHealth Online
If you are covered by the State Employee Health Plan, you can also connect with a licensed therapist through Anthem’s LiveHealth Online service. All appointments are virtual, and normal cost sharing applies for these services if you have not yet met your deductible and coinsurance. LiveHealth Online therapists can help you handle your feelings, think more clearly about your situation, and develop better habits.
- Get started: Visit livehealthonline.com or the Sydney Health app.
Behavioral Health Resource Center
The Anthem Behavioral Health Resource Center can also help you find treatment programs and help arrange confidential counseling and support services at no extra cost. This Anthem resource is available 24/7.
Get started: Call 844-792-5141.
Anthem Mental Health Resource Guide
The Anthem Mental Health Resource Guide is a compilation of community resources designed to help improve mental health benefits and outcomes for employees of the State of Indiana and their families.
Meaningful, local programs and opportunities are available right here in Indiana to assist and support healthier, happier individuals, families, and communities. Connect with these helpful resources to support health and well-being for you and your family.
- Get started: Visit the Anthem Mental Health Resource Guide website.
988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline
988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline is not only a suicide hotline, it is also a resource for people who are experiencing a mental health crisis of any kind, such as anxiety, depression, stress, grief, substance use, and thoughts of self-harm.
988 is a way forward. It’s someone who gets you and gives you the nonjudgmental support you need. It’s whatever you need, when you need it. 988 offers a direct connection to compassionate, accessible care and support for anyone experiencing mental health-related distress, whether that is thoughts of suicide, mental health or substance use crisis, or any other kind of emotional distress.
- Phone: Call 988 to reach Suicide & Crisis Lifeline and speak with a trained crisis specialist 24/7.
- Website: 988indiana.org
Indiana 2-1-1
Indiana 2-1-1 is a free and confidential service that connects Hoosiers to local resources and services for food, housing, utility bill support, and more.
- Call: 2-1-1 (Monday - Friday, 7 a.m. to 7 p.m.)
- Text: 898-211 (Monday - Friday, 7 a.m. to 7 p.m.)
