The Future of Work is Family Friendly: Strategies to Support Working Parents

Thursday, November 10, 2022

8:45 AM – 10:00 AM

Location: Cascade 9/10

Lead Presenter(s)

Tracy Schreiber, MURP

Community Licensing Outreach & Support
Washington State Department of Children, Youth & Families

Co-Presenter(s)

Amy Anderson, MHPA, JD

Government Affairs Director
Association of Washington Business (AWB)
Paige Coleman, MBA (she/her/hers)

Child Care Program Specialist
WA State Department of Commerce

Presentation Purpose & Goal: Access to affordable, quality child care allows parents to work, prepares our future workforce for success, and helps grow business. Yet Washington businesses lost over $6.5 billion annually in direct and opportunity costs due to employee child care issues. Child care is not just a family issue, it is a community, business, and workforce issue.

Employers can strengthen their business by supporting the child care needs of their employees. Family-friendly policies and employer-supported child care are powerful tools to foster employee loyalty, improve retention, attract top talent, and enable employees to be more engaged in their work.

Join us to learn about the varied ways businesses of all sizes can support the child care needs of their working parents.

Learning Objectives:

The positive impact of employer-supported child care and family-friendly policies
Tangible ways that businesses can support working parents
The experiences of Washington business leaders with family-friendly policies
The technical assistance supports that state agencies can offer to employers