Additional Benefits

Employee Assistance Program (EAP) With Canopy

Canopy (used to be Cascade Centers) is Whitman College’s Employee Assistance Program (EAP). It is a free and confidential benefit that can assist you and your eligible family members with any personal problems, large or small. Some of the services include:

• Legal counseling: family law, consumer law, debt & bankruptcy, landlords and tenants, marriage and more.
• Access to over 100 legal forms: wills, authorizations, agreements, notices and more.
• Financial Counseling: Home center, identity theft, taxes, investing, insurance center, estate & retirement planning.
• Resilience: Bouncing back to normal and finding what makes you happy.
• Emotional Well-being: stress, depression, addiction, anxiety disorders, assessments, grief and loss, suicide and other emotional health issues.
• Personal Growth: Increase your work/life balance.
• Home Owners: buying, selling, refinancing, credit score review.

If you are unsure what services you would benefit from, download the Canopy EAP app, answer a few quick questions and the EAP benefit match will determine which EAP services are best for you.

You can visit Canopy website at canopywell.com, call 1-800-433-2320, or email info@canopywell.com.

Whitman’s Home Ownership Benefit

Whitman’s Home Ownership Benefit (WHOB) partners with Landed, a down payment program that invests alongside employees in education to help them reach up to a 40% down payment. Funds, up to $276,000 per household, come in the form of an equity investment, meaning that homebuyers share in a portion of the gain (or loss, if any) of the value of the home once the partnership is ended—typically by sale or refinance.

The WHOB also offers free homebuying services to educators, including building an expert team around you to help navigate all of your homebuying options and delivering education and guidance to help you prepare for homeownership.

This down payment program is open to all full-time, regular Whitman employees in good standing—faculty, staff and administrators—who have worked at Whitman for at least two years and is available beginning February 2025. You do not need to be a first-time homebuyer to participate.

To apply and learn more, email the program team at whitman@landed.com.

Paid Time Off

Paid time off includes the following:

• Bereavement
• Holidays
• Jury Duty
• Shared Leave
• Sick Leave
• Vacation
• Termination Payout
• Washington Paid Family and Medical Leave (English)
• Washington Paid Family and Medical Leave (Spanish)

For more information on different forms of paid time off, please visit the online Staff Handbook.

Movement That Matters

Movement That Matters (MTM) sessions are designed for currently employed staff and faculty and retired staff and faculty who have current Whitman I.D. cards.

MTM promotes good health and camaraderie and gives you a healthy break! Let movement help soothe and cure what’s ailing your body, mind and soul.

Summer 2025 Session

Tuesday–Thursday
12:10–12:50 p.m.
Sherwood Athletic Center

Cost: $35 for a 6-Week Session

Weekly MTM Schedule: