Referral Services for Dependent Care
Resource and Referral services provide employees with child care or elder care information and referrals so they may make an informed decision about caregiving arrangements.
Texas Department of Aging and Disability Services: Information and resources for older Texans and their families.
AARP Balancing Work and Caregiving: Tips for adult children taking care of parents, relatives and older friends. Links to caregiver networks.
2-1-1 Help in Texas: Information and resource center network helps locate social services throughout Texas.
Businesses that offer resource and referral services
Bank of America is a banking and financial services company with approximately 143,000 employees. The company offers flexible work arrangements, child care centers and dependent care programs to deal with child care and aging parents.
Baptist Health South Florida-Family-Friendly Benefits is a not-for-profit health care organization with 8,000 employees. It offers lactation rooms, subsidized care for infants and preschool children and elder care resources and referrals.
Intel, a supplier to the Internet economy has 89,792 employees. The company offers resource and referral services, a pretax dependent care spending account and discounts to national child care chains.
Prudential Financial, a financial services company, has over 5,000 employees nationwide. The company offers on-site and near-site child care centers; child care referrals; discounts through national child care providers, and flexible work arrangements.