Employee Assistance Programs in Arizona are free of charge to employees and their family often pre-paid by the employer or contracted with a third party company. The highest level of confidentiality and privacy should be observed for Arizona Employee Assistance Programs so that employers are not aware of the employees who are using the service or what issues they are dealing with.

In some instances, however, the employee may have been recommended to the Arizona Employee Assistance Program by the employer or a manager in order to deal with behavioral or job performance issues.

The existance of Employee Assistance Programs are not required by the state of Arizona or required to be licensed so employees should always seek secondary advise for major issues and may find it difficult to deal with dissatification with the program. One option to counter this additional government involvent such as with consumer advocacy groups to insure proper proceedurs and fair treatment of employees.