About four or five times a year, we launch a global recruitment effort, seeking to expand the ranks of our clinical order network, and as is usually the case, the results are overwhelming. Our most recent campaign (August 2019) flooded our office with phone calls, emails, live chat requests, resumes, hopes, and dreams. The response is flattering, inspiring, and terrifying …
A reasonable accommodation includes any appropriate measure that would allow an employee with a disability to perform the essential job functions. California regulations include permitting job applicants or employees to bring emotional support animals to the worksite as a specific example of a possible reasonable accommodation. (California Code of Regulations, Title 2, Division 4.1, Subchapter 2, Article 9, Section 11065(p)(2)(B)) …
At ESAD, we’re driven by our ethics, ethos, and a desire to do “things the right way. With (as of yet unknown) upcoming changes to federal law, we’re tuning and improving our products in the expectation of meeting the new legislative requirements. Recently, mental health experts Jeffrey N. Younggren, Cassandra L. Boness, Leisl M. Bryant, and Gerald P. Koocher published …
Recently, ESAD Founder and CEO Chaz Stevens sat down with a Healthline reporter to chat about emotional support animals. Q: Who is an ideal candidate for an ESA, and why? For housing, an emotional support animal is a type of assistance animal recognized as a “reasonable accommodation” for a person with a disability under the federal Fair Housing Act. An …
“Why should we act surprised when the animal acts out?” Chaz Stevens, founder and director at ESAD International, told Healthline. ESAD International is a group of licensed mental health professionals that aim to provide emotional support animal services both online and in person. “Currently, federal guidelines do not require any training for an ESA. Recent changes from the airline industry …
An animal which is medically necessary to address the symptom or effects of a physical or mental handicap is called an *assistance animal. NOTE: In 2013, the U.S. Department of Housing & Urban Development practically did away with the popular terms “emotional support animal” and “service animal,” for a name which would incorporate both types of animals: assistance animals [see …
ESAD is a very high-tech company, employing cutting-edge software from Symantec, Amazon Web Services, and Stripe. Our founder, Chaz Stevens, has deep roots in the IT field, working for IBM, Microsoft, and The Walt Disney World Company. Around here, for the most part, usually “new” means better, but not always. Even with all of that gadgetry at our disposal, we …
For 24 years, my depression kept me from leaving the house. So deciding that I would go see my Aunt Barbie in Orlando – 2,000 kilometers, or 1,200 miles away from my home in Toronto – was a gigantic step for me. My divorce after 16 years of marriage forced me to confront all the ways I had been compensating …
Emotional support animals will be welcomed into dorms beginning this fall, Western Michigan University announced last week via press release. “Western Michigan University recognizes the importance of Service Animals as defined by the Americans with Disabilities Act Amendments Act (ADAAA) and the broader category of Assistance Animals under the Fair Housing Act (FHA), which provide physical and/or emotional support to …
“Good and cheap.” Those two words actually contradict themselves. After all, in today’s %%LOC&& ESA market, you get what you pay for.
