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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.

50 State Map Public Broadcasting System: A state by state resource map for employees who are caregivers.

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.

Bank One Benefits Advantage is a financial institution with 70,000 employees. It offers flexible work options and child care referrals are offered by the company.

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.

Corning is a glass manufacturer with approximately 33,000 employees. It provides child care programs to ensure quality and consistency in care, and an array of quality intermediate and skilled nursing, and assisted-living institutions, for elder care.

Deloitte Touche is a professional services organization with 29,154 employees. It offers flextime, parental leave, adoption assistance and reimbursement, child care and elder care resource and referral.

DuPont U. S. is a science company, delivering science-based solutions in diversified markets, and has 83,000 employees. It offers flexible work practices, just-in-time care links, providing employees with a database of emergency/backup care options when normal arrangements break down, either for elder care or child care needs. Dupont's Work/Life Committees have examined issues ranging from child care for shift workers to excused time off policies to cover family emergencies.

Genentech is a biotechnology company, with 5,000 employees. It offers child care and eldercare resource and referral services, near-site child care, and adoption assistance.

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.