Value Options is a private, nonprofit company that provides behavioral health care for companies of all sizes. It serves more than 24 million people through publicly funded and commercial contracts with a wide variety of managed behavioral health care services. It offers a variety of services, such as mental health and substance abuse management, employee assistance programs, work and life services, life coaching, smoking cessation programs and nurse line health information services. It provides services to various Fortune 100 companies, small- and medium-sized businesses, national and regional trade unions, nonprofit organizations, colleges and universities, and federal, state and local government agencies. Founded in 1986, Value Options is accredited with the National Committee for Quality Assurance and is located in Rocky Hill, Conn.