Employers & Benefits Teams

Caregiving benefits employees actually use

Most caregiving benefits go unused because they solve for logistics and not for the decision — which nanny, which facility, which conversation with a parent who says no.

Tammy Gold, LCSW, MSW

Columbia University

20 years in family care

Author, Secrets of the Nanny Whisperer (Penguin)

The problem with most caregiving benefits

Backup care and referral lists help with the easy part. The hard part is the decision underneath: whether a parent can still live alone, how to split care with siblings, whether to move a child out of a daycare that isn't working. Employees don't call a benefits hotline for that — they take a personal day and figure it out alone.

That gap is expensive. Caregiving pressure shows up as absenteeism, reduced hours, declined promotions, and mid-career attrition among exactly the employees you least want to lose.

What I bring to a benefits program

Clinical design of caregiving support — child and elder, in one framework
The Care Map Method™ as the assessment structure employees walk through
Workshops and manager training on supporting caregiving employees
Content and toolkits for your benefits portal and ERGs
Speaker sessions at open enrollment and benefits fairs
Advisory to your benefits vendor on clinical quality

Who this fits

Employers with a workforce in their forties and fifties, companies with active caregiver or parent ERGs, benefits teams whose caregiving vendor is underused, and organizations losing mid-career employees to family demands they never made visible.

Published work

The books behind the method

Tammy wrote Secrets of the Nanny Whisperer (Penguin) and the Care Map Method™ book series, a structured framework for family care from infancy through the teen years and into eldercare. The same framework is what organizations license, teach, and build programs on.

Secrets of the Nanny Whisperer (Penguin) by Tammy Gold, LCSW — Secrets of the Nanny Whisperer (Penguin)

Care Map Method Infant System by Tammy Gold, LCSW — Care Map Method Infant System

Care Map Method Toddler System by Tammy Gold, LCSW — Care Map Method Toddler System

Care Map Method Preschool System by Tammy Gold, LCSW — Care Map Method Preschool System

Care Map Method School-Age System by Tammy Gold, LCSW — Care Map Method School-Age System

Care Map Method Teen System by Tammy Gold, LCSW — Care Map Method Teen System

Care Map Method Daycare System by Tammy Gold, LCSW — Care Map Method Daycare System

Talk about your caregiving benefit

Tell me what you offer today and where employees are falling through. Scoping conversations are free.

Email info@caremapmethod.com

or text (818) 308-1358