Human Resource Materials for Employees

Tools and materials to support the child care needs of employees

Employers can help employees find quality, affordable child care throughout Florida

Employers can help employees find quality, affordable child care throughout Florida. Looking for child care can be stressful for parents. Knowing what to ask, what to look for, who to trust, and how to compare options is hard.
  • Quality settings promote the healthy development and school readiness of children.
  • Parents with reliable, quality settings for their children, are better able to focus on their jobs and less likely to miss work.
Quality child care is essential for families with children, but it’s also good for business. Parents and their children both benefit from quality child care.

Human Resource (HR) Materials for Employees

For New Hire Packets and Employee Handbooks: Download this employee child care guide to include in orientation sessions, new hire packets, and/or employee handbooks, which includes information about Early Learning Coalitions and helpful tips in searching for child care. Download this version to add your own logo to the resource.
  • Post Information about Early Learning Coalitions and Child Care Resource and Referral services near the copy machine, the coffee machine, or in the lunch room. Share child care resource links with your employees so that they have access to a child care checklist and the School Readiness program that offers child care subsidies for low wage families.
  • Include information about the Early Learning Coalitions and employee child care tips in your company’s newsletter. Download this information for an easy cut & paste into your newsletter format.

  • If your Human Resources Department has a resource area for employees (or an employee resource area on a company web site), include these links:

What business leaders say

Ruvos encourages conversations about family and community from the start of the on-boarding process, which allows staff to create connections that make the workforce more productive and confident. These conversations have allowed Ruvos to build a workplace in which everyone knows they are supported. This has increased employee satisfaction, retention, and overall productivity. Folks are willing to go the extra mile knowing that they have an employer and leadership that supports them, their families, and most importantly, their children.
★★★★★
Eddie Gonzalez-Loumiet, CEO - Ruvos
Tallahassee, Florida
Directions for Living uses surveys to see which employee needs are most important to them. By creating space for understanding what employees value, they are able to implement family friendly policies that are meaningful to their workforce. Lott’s advice to bosses trying to implement family-friendly policies is to be willing to listen, to change perspectives, and to make changes according to employee’s needs. Sometimes policies she thought would be valuable to employees were not, and other times, policies she thought would not be valuable were actually extremely valuable. Surveys have opened up the dialogue about what changes would be beneficial for the company and for its workers.
★★★★★
April Lott, CEO - Directions for Living
Clearwater, Florida
Raising awareness about “what is not happening” in early childhood education and how this is a problem for businesses is key to gaining collective support from the business community. The beauty of the business community is, once we see the problem, the business community rallies around it. In Florida, there are a couple million businesses that employ 10 to 10.5 million people, which means the impact of business’s support could be huge. Advocacy is key to gaining collective support for early childhood education from Florida’s businesses.
★★★★★
Mark Wilson, President & CEO of the Florida Chamber of Commerce
Tallahassee, Florida
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