Family Forward NC is an innovative initiative to improve children’s health and well-being and keep North Carolina’s businesses competitive. It is employer-led change to increase access to research-based, family-friendly practices — big and small — that improve workplace productivity, recruitment and retention; grow a strong economy; and support children’s healthy development.
Business Smart.
Family-friendly workplaces have a strong competitive advantage.
Family Friendly.
The benefits of family-friendly workplaces are numerous and long-lasting.
Future Ready.
To prepare our future workforce for success, we have to start in early childhood.
Families Have Changed.
But workplaces haven’t.
Seventy-five percent of US mothers and fifty percent of US fathers say they’ve passed up work opportunities, switched jobs, or quit to care for their children.Footnote # 1
Family Forward in Action
Watch our Family Forward NC panel discussion with the North Carolina Restaurant Association
On November 10, 2020, the North Carolina Early Childhood Foundation partnered with the North Carolina Restaurant Association to present a panel discussion about how family-friendly workplace practices help employers in…
The Top 3 Reasons Women are Leaving the Workforce during the COVID Crisis
(And How Employers Can Keep Them) September of 2020 saw over a million Americans leave the workforce, meaning they have left jobs and are not looking for new work. Of…
As Parents Leave the Workforce During COVID-19, We Look at the Cost of Turnover Versus Family-Friendly Practices
Before the COVID-19 pandemic, 75 percent of moms and 50 percent of dads said they’ve passed up work opportunities, switched jobs, or quit working to care for their children. When…