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Community for caregivers. It's essential. "Building a supportive community for employees with caregiving responsibilities is essential for their well-being and for the overall health of the organization, and should be considered as part of the overall benefits package included with more traditional benefits such as flexible work arrangements, back-up eldercare, and family leave." We're honored to both offer Cleo members community connection with other parents and caregivers in similar life stages as part of our core offering, as well as to partner with our amazing customers to enhance caregiver community spaces within their workplaces. Read more about #caregiver community in this short and sweet article in Fast Company:

🔔 New webinar alert for HR benefit leaders looking to measure ROI! 🔔 Across all industries, leaders strive to measure and validate their investments, in order to ensure their health and determine where they need to improve. So why shouldn’t leaders do the same for their employee populations? 🤔 Joshua Freund, Senior Benefits Manager at Genentech, experts from the Validation Institute, and experts from Cleo will walk you through the Family Health Index™, which identifies parents and caregivers at greater risk of burnout, and therefore in urgent need of targeted and proactive interventions to support them and their family. We'll demonstrate how this index helps Cleo improve higher-risk caregivers emotional wellness and other dimension scores to drive cost-savings for organizations around the world. 🗺 Register today at the link below:

"Indeed, a lot of employers have no idea what’s going on in the lives of their employees who are caregivers, according to a 2019 study at Harvard Business School by professor Joseph B. Fuller and program director Manjari Raman. Only 24 percent of the employers in the study said that caregiving influenced workers’ performance. Meanwhile, 80 percent of employees with caregiving responsibilities conceded that caregiving affected their productivity." If you've been reading articles about the caregiving crisis for months (or even years), you know it's beyond time to support the parents and caregivers in your organization -- because they're already struggling. We're proud to bridge the gap between employers and their employees, so that no one has to weather caregiving struggles alone.

Imagine managing a full-time job while also being responsible for the health and well-being of a loved one. As we well know, this is the reality for the vast majority of the workforce. Without supports like Cleo, the emotional, physical, psychological, and financial stress on caregivers puts them at a supreme disadvantage to bring their full selves to either responsibility. An important read from Forbes for CEOs, especially:

This is it. This is what we're talking about. Empathetic, evidence-based, and personalized help from Cleo, so that parents and caregivers don't have to use up their precious reserves of mental and emotional space for things like Snapchat. 👻

Happy halfway through 2024! 🗓 With benefits managers and decision committees sorting through their options for next year, here are 12 friendly reminders why caregiving support is essential to include as part of your offering. 👇

Hey benefits managers: Were you aware that child care costs more than housing in all 50 states, and in many cases double? 😡 That's summer camp, daycare, after-school programs, babysitting, nannies -- the way that parents are able to work. Working parents are exhausted, and strained emotionally, mentally, physically, and financially. This, of course, makes quality of life and work go down for them -- and costs and loss for you, their employer, go up. Be sure your organization is doing all it can to support *all* of your workers. Cleo can help you get there. ✨

"Caregivers may be the busiest people on the face of the Earth," said Nancy LeaMond of AARP. "But they’re quite anxious to get help, and [they're] willing to work with us across the country."

We're seeing even the definition of caregiving broaden -- parenting a child, caring for an elder loved one, supporting someone with special healthcare needs. When caregivers struggle, poor mental health is often the underlying culprit. Watch a great clip and the full conversation between Cleo's CEO Madhavi Vemireddy, MD and Shareef Ghanem of Avalere about how #mentalhealth is inextricable from #caregiving 👇

Cleo supports every caregiver and all of their intersecting identities. 💜