Audience Category: For Businesses

On-site child care is located at an employers’ workplace. For consortium sponsored child care, employers join forces to finance child care run, often run by a contracted operator. Employers can subsidize the cost of care so employees can pay below-market rates, or employers can ask employees to pay full cost for care.

Example of benefits, programs and facilities that help employees and their families through problem-solving, coaching, resources and referrals, and educational programs.

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.

Family Forward NC has compiled this list of family-friendly workplaces across the state.

UNC contracts with Early Years to administer the UNC Childcare Resource & Referral program to help UNC employees and students access affordable high-quality child care for their children. This service is provided free of charge to UNC affiliates.

Example of the comprehensive benefits and programs offered, including back-up childcare, free research and referral, and educational resources for children.