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SUMMARY:Work-Life Balance Strategies in Family Policy
DESCRIPTION:Work-Life Balance Strategies in Family Policy\n25th September 2024\nVilnius\, Lithuania \nAcknowledging the importance of work-life balance is crucial for maintaining personal well-being and mental health which encompasses various aspects\, such as emotional\, psychological\, and social well-being. Therefore\, a healthy work-life balance positively affects our personal relationships and helps coping with stress. This balance extends to family responsibilities\, including care for both children and elderly family members. \nFamily care includes taking care of both children and older family members. According to 2019 Eurostat data\, almost 90 million people in the EU have care responsibilities for children\, and more than 12 million people in the EU take care of ill\, elderly and/or disabled relatives. Work-life balance rights are being consolidated in public policy across Europe (in great part following the transposition of the EU work-life balance directive)\, and also increasingly in company policies which are building family-supportive workplaces. \nThe European Pillar of Social Rights puts a strong focus on work-life balance of parents and carers\, with different initiatives to support families: legal frameworks like the EU work-life balance directive and the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive; and policy frameworks like the European Care Strategy and the European Child Guarantee. \nThis expert meeting will: \n1. Explore the intersectional dimensions of work-life balance\, considering how factors such as gender\, socioeconomic status\, race\, and ethnicity intersect with family dynamics and mental health outcomes.\n2. Promote the integration of family-friendly working conditions\, mental health services and family-friendly policies into organisational structures that best meet families’ needs.\n3. Facilitate dialogue and collaboration among diverse stakeholders\, including employers\, employees\, policymakers\, researchers\, and community organisations\, to develop comprehensive strategies for supporting family mental health in the workplace. \nWorking languages: English and Lithuanian \n 
URL:https://coface-eu.org/event/work-life-balance-strategies-in-family-policy/
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SUMMARY:COFACE working group on transnational families
DESCRIPTION:COFACE working group on transnational families\nSave the date!\n15th October 2025\, 10:00-12:00 CET – online \nThis working group meeting aims to explore the impact of globalisation on family structures\, identify the challenges faced by transnational families\, discuss relevant EU developments\, and promote collaboration among stakeholders to enhance support systems for these families. \nKeynote speakers will be: \n\nAttila Böhm\, COFACE Senior Policy and Advocacy Officer\nViorela Ducu Telegdi Csetriu\, PHD\, Babes-Bolyai University and leader of WG4 of TraFaDy COST Network\nSven Iversen\, COFACE Vice-President and chair of TraFaDy COST network\n\nWorking language: English\nFormat: Online\nRegistrations will open early September \n__________________________________________________________ \nBackground\nCOFACE is member of the COST research network on Transnational Family Dynamics in Europe (TraFaDy)\, which aims to deepen the knowledge of the growing\, rapidly changing phenomenon and dynamics of Transnational Families (TNF) by bringing together researchers and stakeholders from different disciplines and countries to address the need for transnational insights and to formulate policy and practice-oriented recommendations with an impact on international\, national\, sub-local and local practices. For this\, the network closely monitors current trends in migration\, technology and politics\, and engage in an intensive dialogue with policy and practitioners\, and\, thus\, address the need to deepen and broaden scientific and policy understanding of Transnational Families. \nGlobalisation profoundly reshapes social\, economic\, and political spheres\, fundamentally altering family dynamics and giving rise to transnational families. These families\, whose members are dispersed across multiple countries yet maintain a sense of familyhood\, arise through various forms of migration\, including economic migration (e.g.\, migrant domestic workers\, caregivers\, seasonal workers)\, forced migration (e.g.\, refugee families\, unaccompanied minors)\, and other separations due to work\, education\, or lifestyle choices. \nMigration is essentially a family matter\, with family relationships\, responsibilities\, and ties playing a crucial role in migration decisions and experiences. Understanding the dynamics of transnational families is essential for social work and social welfare systems to address their complex needs effectively. \n 
URL:https://coface-eu.org/event/coface-working-group-on-transnational-families/
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SUMMARY:COFACE Disability platform - annual meeting
DESCRIPTION:COFACE Disability plaform – annual meeting\n24-25th October 2024\nBrussels\, Belgium \nThe annual meeting of COFACE Disability will take place in Brussels this year\, focusing as always on the family dimension of disability rights. \nKey topics for discussion will be EU developments around the European Union Strategy for the Rights of Persons with disabilities and the European Care Strategy\, as well as exchanges between members on a wide range of topics including family carers\, early childhood intervention\, employment\, accessibility and more. \nSave the date! \n 
URL:https://coface-eu.org/event/coface-disability-platform-annual-meeting/
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