{"id":851,"date":"2015-03-17T09:51:14","date_gmt":"2015-03-17T13:51:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/farmvia\/?p=851"},"modified":"2015-03-17T09:51:14","modified_gmt":"2015-03-17T13:51:14","slug":"free-for-farmers-workplace-services-and-counseling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/farmvia\/?p=851","title":{"rendered":"Free for Farmers!  Workplace Services and Counseling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/agriculture.vermont.gov\/producer_partner_resources\/farmer_wellness\/farm_first\">Farm First<\/a> is a free and confidential\u00a0 program available for Vermont farm owners and family members seeking assistance on a\u00a0 personal and workplace issues. The program can provide assistance when dealing with farm labor issues\u00a0 that are difficult to resolve on your own.<\/p>\n<p>The program can also provide confidential counseling services related to stress, anxiety, depression,addiction and other situations where the guidance of a professional is needed. The program is available to farm owners and related family members involved in the business. Farm owners can also consider if they want to enroll in expanded employee assistance programs (EAP) to make similar services available for their employees at a very low cost.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Call Farm First at\u00a0 1- 877- 493- 6216<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Click this link for the Farm First description at the Vermont Agency of Agriculture website: <a title=\"Farm First for Vermont Farm Owners\" href=\"http:\/\/agriculture.vermont.gov\/producer_partner_resources\/farmer_wellness\/farm_first\">Farm First for Vermont Farmers<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Follow this web link to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.investeap.org\/\">Invest EAP<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Farm First is a free and confidential\u00a0 program available for Vermont farm owners and family members seeking assistance on a\u00a0 personal and workplace issues. The program can provide assistance when dealing with farm labor issues\u00a0 that are difficult to resolve &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/farmvia\/?p=851\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1598,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[52830,50378,52822],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family-farms","category-labor","category-risk-management"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/farmvia\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/farmvia\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/farmvia\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/farmvia\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1598"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/farmvia\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=851"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/farmvia\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/851\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":852,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/farmvia\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/851\/revisions\/852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/farmvia\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/farmvia\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/farmvia\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}