work-life resources

Artemis Management Consultants
Artemis Management Consultants specializes in helping organizations manage change. Artemis helps organizations conduct needs assessments, build teams, train and coach managers, re-design work and plan and implement culture change initiatives.

Boston College Center for Work Family
The Center for Work and Family at Boston College Wallace E. Carroll School of Management is a research organization that promotes employer and community responsiveness to families. The guiding vision of the Center is the strengthening of families, broadly defined to reflect the diversity throughout our communities today. The Center’s activities fall into three broad categories: research, employer partnerships, and policy initiatives.

Child Elder Care Insights (CECI)
The mission of CECI is to help employees address, identify and resolve their personal problems through a comprehensive and high quality dependent care resource and referral program that is professional, accessible, voluntary and confidential. CECI’s fundamental commitment is to maximize the emotional well-being and related job performance and productivity of employees.

Children, Youth and Family Consortium (CYFC) University of Minnesota
Computer searchable information system available 24 hours-a-day with information on children, youth, family, fatherhood, and work/family issues. Site includes links to other Work and Family or Work-Life information Internet sites.

Families and Work Institute (F.W.I.)
The Families and Work Institute is a non-profit organization that addresses the changing nature of work and family life. F.W.I. is committed to finding research-based strategies that foster mutually supportive connections among workplaces, families, and communities.

Family Caregiver Alliance
An information resource on long-term care.

Greater Good Science Center
The nonprofit GGSC is unique in its commitment to both science and practice: Not only do they sponsor groundbreaking scientific research into social and emotional well‐being, they help people apply this research to their personal and professional lives. Their goal is not only to help individual employees identify effective, research-based strategies for managing their stress and deriving more meaning from their work. It is also to help leaders and entire organizations embed these strategies in their workplace culture, prioritizing positive relationships and a leadership style that embodies social and emotional intelligence.

National Partnership for Women and Families
The National Partnership for Women and Families is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization that uses public education and advocacy to promote fairness in the workplace, quality health care, and policies that help women and men meet the dual demands of work and family.

New Ways to Work
New Ways to Work is a consulting, technical assistance, and training organization that helps communities build comprehensive local youth-serving systems, develop new programs and partnerships, and improve practice in the organizations that serve young people.

Society for Human Resource Management / SHRM
National professional association focused on professional development in human resources field and including areas of interest related to work and family. SHRM publishes a monthly titled HRMagazine which can be accessed via SHRM’s Internet site.

U.S. Department of Education
Information of the Employers, Families and Education Initiative which promotes family involvement in learning and schools.

WFD (Formerly Work/Family Directions)
WFD offers innovative solutions, thought-leadership, and research that keep companies on the cutting edge of the key issues that affect business results namely, what employers can do to facilitate maximum commitment of their people to business success.

Work Family Connection, Inc.
Consulting firm and publisher. Extensive on-line information, news summaries, trend reports, model companies, and searchable database (search function only available to subscribers).

WorldatWork
A nonprofit human resources association and compensation authority for professionals and organizations focused on the strategic elements of the employer-employee exchange as well as how external influences and an increasingly global business environment affect attraction, motivation, retention and engagement of employees.