Work-life and Wellness Seminars

Eldercare Seminars

Community Resources for the Elderly

Help employees understand and find available resources before they need them in a crisis situation. A geriatric care manager will discuss the differences among personal care homes, nursing homes, retirement communities, home health agencies, in-home agencies, and other eldercare resources. You will also discuss the role of the care manager.

Accessing Services for the Elderly

An overview of senior services will highlight resources and assistance in finding available resources before you need them. You will discuss appropriate referrals and how to deal with crisis management.

My House, Your House, Our House:
The Changing Face of Senior Housing

Explore the many housing options for seniors -nursing homes, retirement communities, personal care and assisted living facilities, subsidized senior housing, and other resources.

Preparing the Pocketbook:
The Cost of Long-term Care Insurance

Find out what you can expect from a long-term insurance policy. You will learn what to ask when purchasing insurance and when to buy it.

It's All So Confusing; What Do I Need?:
Legal Issues Associated with Aging

Examine the different legal documents typically needed when dealing with seniors and attendees and learn how and where you can access them. The documents you will review include a durable power of attorney, medical power of attorney, living wills, and living trusts.

You and Your Aging Parent:
The Process of Aging

Answer questions about the realities and expectations of normal and abnormal aging. Some topics includes Alzheimer's disease, senile dementia, simple forgetfulness, medication, and diet.

The Insurance Maze:
Medicare, Medicaid, SSI and Long-term Care

Discuss the various insurance options including calculating how much health insurance you need and deciding when to purchase it.

Help Is on the Way:
Care for the Caregivers

Identify and learn realistic ways to alleviate the stress of being a caregiver and how to balance parents, children, work, and home responsibilities. It's more than mere time management.

Protecting Your Elder's Assets

Discover the many ways to protect financial and sentimental assets. An eldercare attorney discusses the following questions: Does Medicare cover the cost of nursing home care? How do I qualify for Medicaid assistance without spending my life savings at a nursing home? Is it legal to transfer assets to the children?

Caring for an Aging Parent

For most people, it is inevitable at some point that children change roles and must care for their parent. This information-packed presentation offers practical advice yet inspiring stories about making this transition. It describes various resources available in Metro Atlanta as well suggests how to deal with the emotional issues that this transition stirs.

The Sandwich Gang:
Are You Getting Chewed Up?

Dealing with an aging parent and getting your child to the soccer field is the struggle many people face today. This insightful presentation offers tips to help you navigate this journey. Gain insights into the dynamics that are alive in this situation, learn practical tips and advice on resources, and understand the importance of setting boundaries. The bottom line — our presenter inspires you to care for yourself while caring for others.

Alzheimer's: The Facts, Myth, and Reality

Understand the symptoms of Alzheimer's disease, the progression of the disease, and current research. Find out about the difference between dementia and Alzheimer's as well as all aspects of Alzheimer's disease.

Mapping Your Future Your Way:
Imagining Retirement

Explore retirement planning that goes beyond traditional financial planning. Learn about “lifelong planning” for financing retirement and long-term care, and discuss health, housing, work and leisure, and relationships to round out your planning for post-retirement living. This session gives you information and resources for present and future planning efforts and encourages you to start planning early for retirement.

Childcare Seminars

Survival Skills for the Single Parent in the Work Force

This workshop offers tips for single parents on how to get everything done with limited time and resources. Learn how to prevent stress overload.

The Juggling Act:
Balancing Work and Family

Any working parent knows how difficult it is to balance work and family life. You constantly juggle the different roles you must play. This seminar offers insights into the many responsibilities working parents face and gives you specific information on how to make the juggling act easier.

Getting Ready for Summer:
Care Options for School-age Children

Every year the need for summer care for school-age children sneaks up on us, and before we know it, the school year is over. This seminar, best scheduled in March and April, offers information on options for summer care in the metropolitan Atlanta area. It outlines issues you should be concerned about when researching programs.

Home Alone:
You and Your Latchkey Child

Find out how to prepare yourselves, your children, and your home to ensure a safe, secure, and positive latchkey environment. This session helps attendees make the decision and evaluate their child's readiness for self-care.

Listening to Children:
The Tool that Motivates

Developing human potentiality is an infinitely complex process. Effective listening that focuses on positives and communicates acceptance, humor, and hope goes a long way toward helping motivate children to cooperate in a family or stimulating them to learn at school. The session focuses on effective listening techniques.

Positive Guidance and Your Child's Self-Esteem

Discuss the roles of positive guidance as an ongoing process to develop self-discipline in your child. The session is not about techniques for controlling or managing your child's behavior.

Babies and Their Amazing Brains!

Neuroscience and babies? Yes. Learn about the new brain research, how the brain develops, and how its earliest connections lay the foundations for a child's life. Explore how parents can enhance their child's life, health, growth, development, and potential.

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Families

Based on the profound insights of author Stephen R. Covey, this workshop focuses on the primary concern of society today — the family. You will learn how to use Covey's 7 Habits to build the kind of strong, loving family that lasts for generations.

Communicating for Better Family Relationships

Communication paves the road to cooperation. Nearly every parent has asked why children can seem uncooperative. Through active communication between parent and child, children learn that “two heads are better than one.” When we solve problems cooperatively, we find better solutions. This translates into more satisfaction and harmony for the entire family.

Adoption Seminar

Figuring out what kind of adoption is right for you can be daunting. Gather information about various adoption options — domestic infant, international, independent, and special need adoptions. Have your questions answered about adoption fees, the adoption home study process, and how to pick a reputable agency. Better understand the levels of openness and legal risks associated with adoptions in the U.S.

Financial Seminars

Mapping Your Future Your Way:
Imagining Retirement

Explore retirement planning that goes beyond traditional financial planning. Learn about “lifelong planning” for financing retirement and long-term care, and discuss health, housing, work and leisure, and relationships to round out your planning for post-retirement living. This session gives you information and resources for present and future planning efforts and encourages you to start planning early for retirement.

Retirement — Your Future:
What Every Person Needs to Know

Be prepared for a long voyage. Is the amount you are putting aside for retirement even close to being enough to support you for the 25 to 35 years you may be retired? How realistic are your thoughts about how much income you will actually need? Do you know anyone who has had to go back to work? Beware of the simplified website retirement engines: You most likely will miss the mark. Learn what you need to know about the facts, assumptions, and myths about retirement planning.

Decisions for the Retiring Professional

Apprehensive or excited about retiring? For the first time in history, longevity is a formidable retirement risk. When moving from working professional to retiree, the real challenge is determining ahead of time appropriate investment strategies, orchestrating them to meet short- and long-term income needs, and tying it all together with your desire to leave an estate to those you love. Learn about the responsibility of making a few of the most important, and possibly irreversible financial decisions of your lifetime.

Estate Planning:
Why You Can't Afford to Put This Off Anymore

Why have beneficiary designations become so important? Do you need to look at powers and why? Why has the focus on estate planning changed from protecting one's assets to preserving family values ? Are you certain that what you want to happen when you die will occur? What will become of your children? How much stress and pressure have you unwittingly put on your family by not planning for the future? Join in a frank discussion about the necessity of estate planning.

Sudden Retirement

When faced with unexpected life transitions, often the financial decisions that you must make can be overwhelming. Making not only an appropriate decision but also a right decision can be a daunting task at best. Learn what options are available and how the tax consequences affect your retirement plan. Should you try to find another job? How are your options different? What do you need to know? Can you pull from your retirement plan now? Get objective advice before you make an irreversible decision that can hurt you in the long run.

Am I Over-insured or Under-insured?

Life insurance addresses certain needs at key times in people's lives. As your life, family, and circumstances change, so do your insurance needs. Many people have policies that cover an amount that they quickly chose but that have little relevance to today's needs. Others may have been encouraged by insurance company representative to buy a certain amount and type of coverage long ago and they have had the same policy ever since. Learn why and how you should plan for appropriate life insurance coverage.

Long-term Care:
Caring for Parents

People are living longer. Medical advancements are saving us from the major killers of the past —that means seniors need longer periods of custodial care. With rapidly rising health costs, it is becoming more financially and mentally difficult for families to meet the medical needs of aging seniors. Explore the emotional issues surrounding deciding about home health care, adult daycare, and nursing home care. How have you prepared for the financial circumstances you may face when caring for a family member?

College Planning:
Today's Choices Can Be Confusing

Today's choices can be confusing when parents or grandparents are deciding how to save for private school or college. Learn the differences between today's available tax-advantaged options and why one vehicle might be more appropriate for you than another.

Planning for Special Needs Children

Unlike planning for a child who is healthy, planning for special needs children often involves providing lifetime care as well as ensuring quality of life for a child. You must coordinate both legal and financial efforts to ensure that your children or dependents receive the desired level of care even after you die.

Teaching Children Healthy Money Values

Uncover ideas for instilling healthy financial literacy in your children. Should you pay your kids to get good grades? What do you say to your 15-year-old who wants a credit card because all her friends have one? How much of an allowance should you give? How can you teach children to respect the privilege of money? If you want for your children to grow up being financially responsible adults, they must learn how to be responsible with money when they are young.

Achieving Financial Success

Discuss a wide range of financial topics, beginning with goal-setting, net worth, and cash flow. Learn tips for reducing taxes and investment strategies such as dollar-cost averaging, diversification and assets allocation.

Financial Strategies for Alternative Life Styles

Address a wide range of financial topics, with special emphasis on planning for the legal and social realities that uniquely affect gay men and lesbians. Learn about legal documents that can help maintain personal financial control, joint ownership issues, and estate planning concerns.

Purchasing Your First Home

Find out everything you need to know before you buy a house. The seminar discusses choosing an agent, setting up sales by owner, dealing with the costs of home ownership, financing your home, hunting for a house, getting inspections, and more.

College Planning

The Road to College

Discover the factors that college admissions counselors use when they consider candidates. Find out what families and students should consider in selecting a college and strategies for gaining admission into the school of your choice.

The Road to Graduate School or Getting into Graduate School

Learn how to prepare to get into graduate school or law school, when to start, and how to apply.

College Admissions

Unearth important facts about the increasingly competitive college admissions process and what you need to know. Find out about the strategies and methods of preparing for the SATs.