Family Services Committee

Family Services Committee
Priorities meeting
August 28, 2008

A Discussion of work/life priorities and compilation of everyone’s choice of top 10 priorities. Beth put together a document to identify top priorities. Each item was labeled with * and the number of * indicated selections from different members. The goal of this Committee is two-fold: Part I was to look at a manageable # of priorities and we need to research what is doable as a committee to work on. Part II is to determine what do we care about as a committee to work on that we can accomplish or promote to the University.

We started to go through each priority individually to determine if what we as a committee should work on.

Expand Commitment of Work/life Vision & Mission

• Fully informed at the higher level — Sr. Leadership

Flexible Work Arrangements (expand the definition)

• Support what already exist
• Request has been forced

Eldercare/Kinship Care

• Referral piece “in place”
• Need lectures of topic
• Support grant or facility

Work/life Issues targeted population

• Life Cycles Workshops
• Needs assessment focus group

Another meeting need to be set up to continue the discussion. Rose will look at setting up a two hour meeting marathon to look at the other priorities.