Caregiving Support Benefit for Your Workplace | The Caregiving Years Training Academy

Support your employees' caregiving responsibilities and boost retention

Caregiving Support for Your Workplace

More than 53 million people in the U.S. provide care to a family member—and six in ten of them also work. A caregiving experience impacts the workplace and affects productivity, retention, and employee well-being.

Our comprehensive Caregiving Support Benefit helps your employees manage their caregiving stress while providing flexibility that works for your workplace.

Why Caregiving Impacts Your Business

53M+
U.S. adults provide care to a family member
60%
Of family caregivers also work
80%+
Say caregiving affects their work productivity
62%
Worry about quitting due to caregiving

What Your Employees Are Experiencing

"I would love a support group. Caregiving can be so isolating and there must be others in the company going through what I'm going through."
~ Employee who cares for a family member
"Crisis times (like hospitalizations and recovery) are the worst. Every day care is usually easy to manage."
~ Employee who cares for a family member
"I am up with my mom every night, sometimes as many as four times a night. The quality of my work day depends on how much sleep I did or didn't get the night before."
~ Employee who cares for a family member

Support That Meets Your Employees Where They Are

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Hospital Support

Our Family Support Team helps your employees manage complex hospital discharge experiences. We help ready the home and prepare families for the care transition—saving your employees time and stress.

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Off-Hours Support

Available for consultations during evenings and weekends when your employees have more time. We provide empathetic listening, ideas, strategies, and resources for their current caregiving challenges.

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Workplace Support

Virtual or in-person workshops, special events, and Wellness Fairs for Those Who Care. We bring resources and providers directly to your employees during convenient times like lunch hours.

What's Included in Your Caregiving Support Benefit

👤 Individual Support

  • Advance planning tools to help team members and managers maintain productivity during employee leave
  • Family Emergency Plan tool to help employees prepare for what's next
  • Return-to-Work support after loss, including Legacy Listening sessions and Beginning Again program
  • Discounted one-on-one sessions with Certified Caregiving Consultants
  • Discounted Listening Sessions with Professional Listening Artists
  • After the Crisis consulting services for recovery following medical crises
  • Family Support Team for hospital discharge management
  • Free enrollment in Certified Family Care Manager training

👥 Team Support

  • Certified Caregiving Mentor training for peer-to-peer support
  • Library of courses on caregiving knowledge and skills
  • Virtual support meetings led by Certified Caregiving Consultants
  • Wellness Fairs connecting employees to local providers and services
  • Thoughtful workshops on understanding caregiving, burnout, and grief
  • Family Emergency Planning for teams
  • Building Workplace Resilience workshop at no cost
  • Workplace Resilience Facilitator training for ongoing peer support

💼 Manager Support

  • Training on communicating with employees facing difficult family situations
  • Support when employees return to work after a family member's death
  • Strategies for managing caregiving-related challenges in the workplace

🌱 Corporate Culture

  • Chief Caregiving Officer position to ensure caregiving is part of your corporate culture
  • Ongoing program evaluation to ensure the benefit meets employee needs
  • Customized programs tailored to your workplace culture and needs

Featured Programs & Solutions

Create Your Team's Family Emergency Plan

Help your employees prepare for life's unexpected moments with structured planning and expert facilitation. When teams plan together, they respond better to crises and maintain business continuity.

  • Facilitated planning sessions with Denise
  • Comprehensive planning tools & resources
  • Customizable for your team's needs
  • Optional one-on-one follow-up sessions
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Beginning Again: Return to Work After Loss

Support for employees grieving the loss of a family member they cared for. Through guided videos and live support meetings, your employees connect with others and learn coping strategies that help them heal.

  • 5 themed video modules covering healing
  • Live facilitated support meetings
  • 93% of participants report expanded coping skills
  • Led by Denise with lived grief experience
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Why Our Expertise Makes a Difference

🎓 Specialized Training

Our Certified Caregiving Consultants are individuals who cared for a family member and completed our training. They understand the caregiving experience firsthand and know how to communicate in ways that reduce stress and create meaningful solutions.

🏆 Workplace Experience

Denise personally develops and leads our workplace program. Since 1999, she's delivered presentations to financial institutions, manufacturing companies, and call centers. With 35+ years of caregiving expertise and recent personal caregiving experiences, she brings authentic understanding to every engagement.

💜 Personalized Approach

We create programs tailored to your workplace culture. Employees choose which Certified Caregiving Consultant or Professional Listening Artist to work with, building relationships based on their personal needs rather than default assignments.

The Bottom Line: Caregiving Benefits Retention

A caregiving benefit program helps you retain and recruit talent. When employees feel supported in their caregiving responsibilities, they're more likely to stay, work harder, and remain engaged.

Caregiving isn't just a personal issue—it's a workplace problem that affects productivity, culture, and retention. Our comprehensive benefit helps your business thrive by supporting your employees through all stages of the caregiving journey.

Let's work together to create a workplace where caregiving employees feel seen, supported, and valued.

Ready to Support Your Caregiving Employees?

Contact Denise to discuss how a Caregiving Support Benefit can help your organization.