Substance use disorder costs the U.S. economy nearly $93 billion a year in lost productivity — missed work, reduced performance on the job, and people unable to work at all.

CDC analysis of 2023 data, published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 2025.

Is Your Organization Prepared?

How are your employees coping with stress and burnout?
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What does your organization do to create safe spaces to share and learn?
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Where can they find help that meets their needs?

Healthier People. Stronger Workplaces. Brighter Futures.

ICARE Workforce Solutions helps employers build healthier, recovery-friendly workplaces. We train HR professionals, managers, leaders and frontline workers to talk about substance misuse, addiction and recovery safely, and to respond to trauma with care. ICARE Workforce Solutions is a division of the International Center for Addiction & Recovery Education (ICARE).

Educate • Empower • Create Healthier Workplaces

Benefits of providing ICARE’s Preventative Substance Misuse Resources in your Workplace:

  • Improved productivity.
  • Decreased workers’ compensation premiums in some states.
  • Shows commitment to employees’ well-being, performance, and future with the organization.
  • Lower absenteeism.
  • Reduces the risk of behavioral health issues.
  • And, of course, happier, better adjusted, more successful employees.

Workforce Behavioral Health Calculators

Find out what substance misuse and mental health issues are costing your business and invest in solutions that improve your bottom line using current research.

Substance Use Employer Cost Calculator – National Safety Council (nsc.org)

Depression Calculator (workplacementalhealth.org)

Mental Health Employer Cost Calculator – National Safety Council (nsc.org)

We care about what you care about.

ICARE Workforce Products & Services

ICARE Healthy Self Checkup & Evaluation

A non-clinical online assessment that helps determine addiction risk. Individuals receive confidential results. Managers receive anonymous, aggregated results.

Bridging the Gap:
Workplace Peer Training

A 24-hour training that prepares frontline workers with lived experience to become trusted connectors in their workplace. Across six domains (Build, Recognize, Inspire, Direct, Grow and Empower), participants learn to hold psychologically safer conversations, recognize concerns without diagnosing, use their own story intentionally, and make warm connections to treatment, recovery and crisis resources, including overdose recognition and naloxone awareness.

Trauma-Informed & Responsive Leadership Training

This 4-hour training gives leaders and teams the trauma-informed framework and shows how to put it into practice across policies, communication and everyday interactions. Participants also learn to be trauma-responsive in the moment: recognizing when an employee is experiencing an active trauma response, and supporting them with safety, choice and compassion rather than escalation.

ICARE Workshop:
Management Training

Managers learn to identify substance misuse in the workplace and the power of corporate culture to influence individual choices. They also learn ways to create the psychological safety needed to raise awareness and heal the Sickness of Silence.

ICARE “Sober Curious”
Learning Event

Participants learn to:

  • Understand the Stages of Change model and how it applies to addiction recovery.
  • Identify the hidden costs and impacts that substance use disorders and addiction have on individuals, families and the workforce.
  • Recognize the four stages of addictive behavior, and how personal knowledge, values and behaviors can prevent and reduce the risk and cost of addiction at each stage.

Train the Trainer 

CFAA HR Promo Video

CFAA HR Demo Video

Certified Facilitator in Addiction Awareness (CFAA)

A 20-hour training that prepares an individual to lead and facilitate conversations, webinars and workshops about substance misuse, addiction and recovery in the workplace. Learn about CFAA

Certified Facilitator in Addiction Awareness for HR (CFAA-HR)

Winner of the SHRM National 2022 Pinnacle Award. CFAA-HR includes all of the 20-hour CFAA plus 6 hours of HR-specific training. Learn about CFAA-HR

ICARE Recovery Membership

Three Pathways. One Community.
Monthly evidence-based content for individuals in or seeking recovery, for families and allies supporting a loved one, and for HR professionals and leaders building recovery-competent workplaces. Each pathway matters equally: addiction affects the person, the home and the workplace together, and lasting recovery is built in all three.
Individual & Family Membership · HR & Leadership Membership
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Bring ICARE to your workplace

People support people. We help you make it possible.
Call 87-RECOVERY (877-326-8379) or email solutions@icare-aware.org.

Together, We Make Workplaces Stronger.