Services for Employers:

• Ideas for developing family friendly policies for employees
• Cost-efficient ways to address child care needs of employees
• Information and articles for company newsletter
• Help setting up a work site family resource library
• Creating and supporting child care services
• Assistance assessing employer and employee child care supply and demand
• Help analyzing the cost-benefits for supporting child care for employees
• Characteristics of successful employer-supported child care programs
• Information on the Oklahoma and the Federal employer child care tax credit

Services for Your Employees:

• Enhanced referrals
  All Oklahomans have access to free child care resource and referral services, including lists of potential child care providers that meet the needs of employees and their families. For a reasonable fee, we provide enhanced referrals that list the names of child care providers that 1) meet the needs of the family and 2) actually have vacancies for the employee's child. This saves a significant amount of time for your employees.

• Work place seminars
  Child development specialists provide seminars at the work site for employees upon request. These seminars average one hour to accommodate employee lunch breaks.
  Topics may include:
  - How to Choose Child Care
  - What is Quality Child Care
  - How to Pay for Child Care
  - Balancing Work and Family
  - Ages and Stages of Childhood
  - Do's and Don'ts of Discipline.
• Work place health fairs
  Resource & referral specialists attend employer-sponsored health fairs and share information and answer questions about child care resources and issues.