Family Matters
The need to balance family care requirements with resources is often
a challenge. How you formulate the most appropriate plan of action will
determine your success. With a seasoned expert that knows the ins and
outs of dependent care services both locally and nationally, the most
suitable care solutions can be determined in a timely and effective
manner.
Changes at the Intersection of Work and Family
When employees’ caring matters challenge their professional and/or
personal success, customized care strategies need to be employed to maximize
working families’ health, productivity and happiness. Caring Matters makes that
job simple for the employer and the employee by working with employee
caregivers to find customized child care, after-school, out-of-school care, and
elder care solutions.
- 40% of people caring for elders also have child care responsibilities
- More than 22 million families provide some kind of unpaid, informal
elder are and 64% of caregivers in these families are employed
full or part-time
- 42% of workers have responsibility for children under 18 years of age
-Labor Project for Working Families, January 2000
- 80% of employers experience shortened workdays each year because
employees' child care arrangements fall through, according to the
National Conference of State Legislatures
- U.S. Companies lose $3 billion annually as a consequence of child-care
related absences, estimates the child care action campaign
-Employee Benefit News, June, 2003
How Caring Matters Can Help:
- Child Care and Elder Care Resource & Referral
- Coping with Work & Family StressTM: A Workplace Preventive
- Geriatric Care Management
- Workplace Seminars
- Support Groups
Call 240.388.0197 to let us help you with your caring matters.
