Meeting/Event Information

Identifying and Supporting Employee-Caregivers: Employers’ Billion Dollar Challenge
Presented by Grace S. Smith, Executive Director, Organization Council on Aging of Middle Tennessee

Yet employee caregivers are often invisible to employers because these workers hesitate to reveal the burdens they carry for fear of jeopardizing their jobs.

Implications for employers will be explored in detail along with ideas to help them identify and assist caregivers. Multiple resources exist to support employers in developing programs; these will be summarized and provided. Two MT|SHRM members will share their personal experiences and challenges of managing family, career and care of aging relatives.

Each attendee will be given a free copy of COA’s Directory of Services for Seniors, which provides comprehensive, impartial information about services for older adults in middle Tennessee – an invaluable resource for HR professionals who assist employee caregivers.

COA is interested in our member’s input in determining the scope of this issue in Middle Tennessee.  Please complete this short anonymous survey even if you are not able to attend this informative lunch and learn: https://app.e2ma.net/app2/survey/1403731/213067561/0b0ec8510f/

A boxed lunch will be provided, and registration is required for this event.

Registration:

• Members: $18 by end of business Friday, March 18, $24 afterward*
• Future Members: $24.00 by end of business Friday, March 18, $32 afterwards* (See below)**
• MT|SHRM Student: $9 by end of business Friday, March 18, $12 afterwards*

*On-line registration will close by end of business 2 days prior to the event. Our ability to accommodate walk-in registrations will be based on space availability.

Schedule: Registration and Networking from 11:00 am - 11:30 am, Lunch from 11:30 am - noon, presentation from noon to 1:30 pm.

This program has been awarded 1.5 hours of General HR recertification credit. "MT|SHRM is recognized by SHRM to offer Professional Development Credits (PDC's) for the SHRM-CP and SHRM SCP. The use of this seal is not an endorsement by the HR Certification Institute of the quality of the program. It means that this program has met the HR Certification Institute's criteria to be pre-approved for recertification credit."

Please thank our sponsor Fifth Third Bank for making this event possible:

Biography: Grace Smith assumed her role as Council on Aging ‘s Executive Director last month as COA begins its 31^st year of providing solutions for the unmet needs of middle Tennessee’s seniors, their caregivers and their communities. Previously she was Program Manager of the Meharry Consortium Geriatric Education Center where she coordinated activities of consortium members and partnered with Meharry Medical College departments to offer geriatric training for health professions students, residents, faculty and and practitioners. She has also been Aging Services Coordinator for the Mental Health Association of Middle Tennessee and served on the Boards of the National Association for Geriatric Education and Council on Aging. Grace holds a Masters degree in Social Work with a concentration in adults and aging from the University of Georgia.

**Up to $45 of any Guest registration may be applied towards a new 1 year MT|SHRM Membership within 60 days of the event attended.  Please call Shannan at (615) 499-5150 to take advantage.