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
NC Department of Commerce Invites Employer Feedback on Changes, Challenges Brought on by COVID-19
The North Carolina Department of Commerce is inviting NC business leaders to participate in an important, ongoing survey of business conditions in the state, and we’d love for family-friendly workplaces to…
Business Smart: Coastal Credit Union
When COVID-19 closed schools and businesses, Meghan Ercolanese had to balance work with caring for her 9-year-old and 4-year-old sons. And she wasn’t the only employee adjusting to a new…
Family-Friendly Workplace Policies in NC’s Local Governments: Before, During and Beyond COVID-19
MomsRising and Family Forward NC conducted a survey in June 2021 of local governments to determine what family-friendly workplace policies local governments incorporated before the COVID-19 pandemic; what they added…