Acknowledgements and Background

This guide is the work of the Chancellor's Advisory Committee on Dependent Care. It was developed with extensive input from the campus community. This is the third version of the Guide. The first version was published in 1992 and focused on policies, practices, programs, and childcare information for working parents. The second version, published in 1998, was expanded to include policies, benefits and resources on elder/adult dependent care. The first two versions were published as booklets and are still available in hardcopy.

This latest version of the guide is available only on the web. The Guide's contents have been expanded, updated, and refined. We hope that you will find this web-based format easy to use and we welcome your feedback. If you have comments or suggestions, please email Carol Hoffman, Work/Life Manager and CACDC Co-Chair, at choffman@uhs.berkeley.edu.

We would like to make the following acknowledgements for the development of this version:

Thanks to Laura Nicodemus (nicmail@pacbell.net) for doing site design, structural additions, and revisions.
Thanks to the Staff Ombuds Office for its original development of the Flexible Work Arrangements Section.
Thanks to Vincent Robinson of the Media Alliance and to Paul Greyson of Digidesign, Inc. for their contributions.
Thanks to UC Santa Cruz for lending design elements from their Work/Life Balance web site.

We would also like to thank the following individuals for their contributions to prior versions of the Guide:

1998 Version: Beth Witrogen-McLeod, Margo Wesley, Steve Lustig, and Horace Mitchell.
1992 Version: Robert Schwarzbach, Kathleen Phillips Satz, Evelyn Shapiro, Joyce Sturm, Michele Woods Jones, Phil Encinio, Chang-Lin Tien, Daniel Boggan Jr., and Steve Barclay.

Parts of the text have been adapted with permission from the following sources: Kaiser Permanente Medical Center of San Francisco, Choosing Childcare, 1988; Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, Childcare-What are Your Choices?;, and BANANAS Childcare Information and Referral Publications, Oakland, CA.

Photos by Dawn Finch, Bob McLeod, Peg Skorpinski, Kathy Sloane, and Department of Housing and Dining Services.