WorkLife

Today's employees often find themselves caught between childcare concerns and the need to care for aging parents. Sound Options' WorkLife is a unique program designed specifically to help businesses and large corporations help their employees find answers to their care giving questions. A benefits package perk that attracts qualified hires, WorkLife sustains workplace productivity while improving the quality of life for employees and their loved ones in need. As an added benefit, employers receive aggregate information highlighting the overall trends for employees participating in the WorkLife programs.

Customized to individual locations, WorkLife delivers a unique program of consultation, workshops, networking, seminars, and telephonic support that includes Child and Family Care & Eldercare and Wellness programs. Designed to give employees immediate access to tools that create a balance between the desire to work and the wish to fulfill family obligations in a loving way, WorkLife is a proprietary program and is available to businesses, nationwide.

WorkLife Child and Family Care & Eldercare

A one-on-one telephonic resource, when employees call us, they have the opportunity to speak with an understanding, compassionate professional who specializes in the expert care of children and older adults. Able to tailor resources and educational materials to match specific locations and needs, our Eldercare and Child & Family Care consultants find customized resources for:

• Caregiver support
• Coping tools
• Alzheimer's and dementia-specific resources
• Medicaid, Medicare, insurance questions
• Death, dying and grieving issues
• Support groups
• Daycare and child care referrals
• Parenting issues
• Adoption information

WorkLife Wellness

The WorkLife Wellness program helps sustain employee health and fitness. Using concrete data generated from a health risk assessment and telephonic coaching that supports well-being, the WorkLife Wellness service customizes fitness and nutrition goals for employees. Combining accountability and motivation, our WorkLife Wellness program produces real results that can translate into increased productivity, decreased absenteeism, and reductions in medical costs, overall.

In addition, Sound Options has created a variety of WorkLife continuing education programs that include onsite seminars, workshops, collateral materials, for a wide variety of topics including:

• Nutritious eating on a budget
• Smart nutrition
• Knowing your numbers to beat the winter blues
• Survival guide to holiday eating
• Goal setting workshop
• Secrets to getting a good night's sleep
• Childhood nutrition - proper snacks and lunches to meet daily needs
• The teenage mind and body
• Why we eat: the psychological and physiological effects
• Deskercising through the work day
• Encouraging exercise & proper nutrition in your school age child