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UAW-GM Child Care Resource
and
Referral Service

We Recognize the Challenges

In general, life is more complicated than ever before... on and off the plant floor.  That is why the UAW and General Motors have created several Work/Family Programs to help UAW-represented GM employees better balance their work and family responsibilities - and reach their full capabilities, both on and off the job.

Juggling work demands and family needs can be challenging, even exhausting.

 

Especially for workers who are raising children and trying to make informed decisions as parents.

UAW-GM Child Care Resource and Referral Service

The Child Care Resource and Referral Service is a joint UAW-GM program to help employees balance work and family. The child care consultant is available to help UAW represented GM employees by providing child care referrals, parenting resources and information.

The child care consultant works with parents to clarify child care needs, identify possible providers, and verify available spaces at licensed child care centers and family day care homes. Parents receive referrals to child care providers with confirmed vacancies and information about how they can choose quality child care.

The child care consultant can help parents design a special summer plan for their children.  Parents receive referrals to camps and programs designed with their children's interests in mind.  The consultant also has information on local activities, parks, gardens and festivals for the whole family.

Working with the local joint child care committee, the child care consultant plans workshops and special events to support working parents and grandparents. The child care consultant maintains a lending library of materials on child development, family issues, and other information on parenting and community resources.



UAW-GM CHILD CARE RESOURCE
AND REFERRAL SERVICE

CHILD CARE REFERRALS

  • child care centers
  • family day care homes
  • before & after school programs
  • summer day camps
  • recreation programs

PARENTING RESOURCES

  • workshops
  • parenting classes
  • special events
  • support groups
  • lending library


INFORMATION ON:

  • choosing child care
  • adoption
  • grandparenting
  • latchkey kids
  • health and safety
  • kids and divorce
  • attention deficit disorders
  • peer pressure


  • sibling rivalry
  • step parenting
  • self esteem
  • adolescence issues
  • child care financial assistance
  • in-home referral agencies
  • other family issues




The Office for Young Children has a child care consultant available to assist SPO workers in the Lansing area. The UAW-GM child care consultant can be reached at the main OYC office (887-4319) or at:

   
  UAW Local 1753
Lin Hirai, Early Childhood Consultant
885-6692                                                  email: linh@oelearning.com

For more information on UAW-GM Child Care Referral Services call or send us an e-mail.


 


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