USC Center for Work and Family Life

The Center for Work and Family Life offers exciting workshops throughout the year on a broad spectrum of topics pertaining to personal health, wellness and family issues.

Check here often for updated links (please note that workshop dates vary for the UPC and HSC campuses)!

Staff Assembly Open Forums

The Staff Assembly is sponsoring two open forums in November – one at HSC on November 10 and one at UPC on November 11. John Gaspari, LCSW, Executive Director of the USC Center for Work and Family Life will be the presenter for both sessions. John’s talk is titled, ‘Surviving and Thriving in the Whitewater’ and in it he will reflect on:

How uncertain times and change impact workers and the workplace
How attitude and perspective determines who survives and who thrives during times of change and uncertainty
Healthy and simple approaches to addressing change and stress in our lives

UPC		HSC
Wednesday, 11/11		Tuesday, 11/10
Hedco Neuroscience (HNB)		McKibben Hall (MCH)
Room 100		Room 149
12:00pm - 1:30pm		12:00pm - 1:30pm

Stress Management — The Old Fashioned Way

For faculty and staff interested in reducing their stress, the Center for Work and Family Life is sponsoring a unique workshop that will teach a blend of modern and ancient techniques including mindfulness, breathing, and other consciousness-raising methods proven over time and across cultures.

learn how to:

Develop greater awareness of stressors
Manage the body’s responses to stress
Use breathing, mindfulness, and natural techniques to reducestress in everyday modern life

UPC

Monday, November 16, 2009

Montgomery Ross Fisher (MRF)

Hamovitch Research Center

12:00pm - 1:00pm

Come and learn how you can achieve your specific wieight-loss goals in an intimate group setting, where your co-workers will help motivate and support your weight-loss efforts.

You can join at any time during the series. Call 213.821.2837 or, email: cwfl@usc.edu.

At HSC, Weight Watchers at Work Meetings are scheduled on Thursdays at the Norris Tower, 1st Floor Copper Room, from 11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. Contact Nazeen Sayed at (323) 442-8354 for details.

This is an ongoing group for USC working moms and moms to be. Group discussions focus on the transition to motherhood with other new moms, as well as topics ranging from choosing a daycare to juggling home and office, nutrition, toddler behavior challenges and more.

Your facilitator, Tina Orkin, works at UPC in the Office for Parent Programs. She was a Certified Nurse Practioner in OB-GYN and has extensive experience teaching Lamaze, Post Partum classes and Mommy & Me.

Date	Start	End	Room

10/13/2009	12:00pm	1:00pm	Leventhal (ACC) 303
10/27/2009	12:00pm	1:00pm	Bridge Hall (BRI) 202A
11/10/2009	12:00pm	1:00pm	Bridge Hall (BRI) 202A
11/13/2009	12:00pm	1:00pm	Bridge Hall (BRI) 202A

The USC Center for Work and Family Life at (213) 821-0800 for more information.

The USC Working Mother’s Group is a small informal group first organized by one of USC’s working mothers, Suzanne Alcantara, when she returned from maternity leave. It’s designed to provide support for USC mothers with young children who are trying to balance work and family. Members are both faculty and staff, that meet for brown bag lunch to discuss work/family life issues and provide support to one another. For the purpose of shared experiences this group was initially targeting women with children 5 years old and younger but it is open to anyone who might be interested.

Below are other ongoing caregiving support groups that are available for those whose lives have been affected by the caregiving needs of a loved one.

Open to all, the addiction recovery group is sponsored by the Office of Religious Life. It meets every Tuesday at 6:00 pm in the University Religious Center (URC), Room 108.

Confidential and anonymous, it's led by a volunteer, nonprofessional man who is in recovery and is more of a 12-step study than a regular meeting. This group is for anybody dealing with any kind of substance abuse.

This group meets the second and fourth Wednesdays of each month from 11:30 am to 1:00 pm.

Meets every other Thursday from 7:30p.m. to 9:00 p.m. (Call for specific dates).

All caregiving groups are FREE of charge and are provided as a service to the public. Parking is $1. Call ahead to arrange for a brief intake interview.