# Presentation: 002448

## Work-Life Advisor

**Vol. 14, No. 11, August 2006**

**U.S. Department of**
**Transportation**
**400 7th St., SW, Rm. 2110**
**Washington, DC  20590**
**800/525-2878 (ext. 1)**
**202/366-6389**

**August 2006 is ...**
**Medic Alert Awareness Month**
***Article Source: The Medic Alert Foundation International ***
***Website: www.medicalert.org****** ***

- The MedicAlert Foundation is the  sponsor of **Medic Alert Awareness Month**.   The foundation is a non-profit healthcare informatics organization dedicated to providing services to its’ members that protect and save lives.
- MedicAlert® services are built around a repository of health information that enables members to manage their personal health records while maintaining security, privacy and confidentiality. The premium placed on patient confidentiality has allowed MedicAlert to earn the trust of 4 million members and the healthcare community worldwide.
- As the trusted third party custodian of comprehensive personal health information, the MedicAlert® repository can connect to and provide critical medical information between patients, providers, payers, and first responders 24 hours a day anywhere in the world.   MedicAlert® activities aim to ensure the rapid development and deployment of standards to improve the quality of care and lower healthcare costs while increasing patient safety.

- BALANCE
-   CAREER     HOME

***If you are based in a regional office, contact the Work-Life Advisor for ideas of activities you can do at your office.***

**AUGUST EVENTS happening at DOT**
**August 8, 12-1pm:                     **W-L Managers’ Series: “Workforce Resiliency”*   *                (Nassif: 3246A)
**August 15, 12-1pm:     **Working Parents’ Discussion Group**        **     **        **(Nassif: 3246A)** **
**August 17, 12-1pm: **
- Eldercare Discussion Group
- (Nassif: 3246A)
**August 22, 12-1pm:                     **Achieving Your Potential Series: “Finding Your Purpose”*   *                (Nassif: 3246A)
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**To Register for  **
**August Events, **
**Please Send an E-mail to:**
**Zakina.Brooker**
**@dot.gov**
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- BALANCE
-   CAREER     HOME

**The MedicAlert® Service meets member needs with:**
**A 24-Hour Emergency Response Center **- Supported by on-site Registered Nurses, MedicAlert will relay your vital medical information to emergency personnel.
**A Member Services Contact Center – **MedicAlert will make free, unlimited updates to your file, order a new emblem, or ask a question about products and services. Someone who cares will answer your call.
**A 50-year relationship with emergency responders** who rely on us for information that can prevent errors, speed treatment and save lives.
**MedicAlert Products & Services- **MedicAlert membership services are available to** **protect your health 24/7/365.
**An in-house manufacturing and shipping facility** to engrave personal data on emblems, so it remains confidential at all times.
**A secure in-house database **that contains your Personal Health Record and allows us to manage member information with privacy.
**Affordable Pricing** – For more information, visit _[www.medicalert.org](http://www.medicalert.org/)_ .

**Did You Know ...**
**August 1 -7, 2006**
** ****is ...**
**World Breastfeeding Week, USA**
***World Breastfeeding Week (WBW) celebrates the signing of the Innocenti Declaration on the Protection, Promotion and Support of Breastfeeding. The theme for 2006 is ******"Code Watch: 25 Years of Protecting Breastfeeding."****** ***
***The International Code of Marketing Breastmilk Substitutes is a public health recommendation which seeks to give women pure facts about feeding their babies, free of aggressive infant formula marketing influences, so that mothers can make well informed feeding decisions.***
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*Source: La Leche League International Website, www,lalecheleague.org .*
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**DOT WORK-LIFE WELLNESS PROGRAM**
- Provides information on work/life issues such as parenting, childcare, eldercare, telework,
- diversity, personal and professional development, and health and wellness.
- Resources on these topics can be obtained by calling
- 202/366-6389 or 800/525-2878 (ext. 1)

**DOT WORK-LIFE WELLNESS PROGRAM**
- Provides information on work/life issues such as parenting, childcare, eldercare, telework,
- diversity, personal / professional development, health and wellness.
- Resources on these topics can be obtained by calling
- 202/366-6389 or 800/525-2878 (ext. 1)

**Work-Life ****Q & A **
**For August 2006**
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**Q: What Are the College Savings Plans of Maryland? **
**A:  **The College Savings Plans of Maryland is a non-profit State agency that offers two Section 529 college savings plans to help families prepare for the future cost of college and reduce future debt.    **The Maryland Prepaid College Trust** allows you to lock-in tomorrow’s college costs based on today’s prices and helps to hedge against future tuition increases.   **The Maryland College Investment Plan** offers investors the flexibility of 13 different investment portfolios managed by T. Rowe Price.   Both plans can be used at any federally accredited college in the country.   They are not exclusive to Maryland colleges!
**Q: What is the Healthier Worksite Initiative (HWI)?**
**A:  **Spearheaded by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), the vision for the HWI is a worksite where healthful choices are easy choices.   The mission is to develop, evaluate and disseminate science-based programs that promote worksite health for all CDC/ATSDR employees, and serve as a model and resource for other federal worksites.   A website is under development to share lessons learned with federal workforce health promotion planners.

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**Hirkani’s Daughters:**
**Women Who Scale **
**Modern Mountains to **
**Combine Breastfeeding**
** ****and Working**
*Article Source: *
*La Leche League International Website,*
* **www.lalecheleague.org*
*     **Hirkani’s  Daughters*, was
- inspired by the tale of a milkmaid
- who lived in the mountain ranges
- of India during the 1600s.
- Whether Hirkani was real or
- legend, one thing is certain: her
- mothering instinct was real.
-      Hirkani’s story is both told in
- the pages of this book and
- reflected in the challenges of
- women who seek to combine
- breastfeeding and work.
*     **Hirkani’s Daughters* offers you
- information and insight into the
- hearts and homes of mothers who
- have succeeded with this
- combination.   They include
- doctors, teachers, maids,
- comedians, scientists, professors,
- daycare providers, and more from
- over thirty-five countries and six
- continents.
-      This book offers practical tips
- on combining breastfeeding and
- work, breastfeeding-friendly
- business information and insight
- into the laws in many countries
- that protect a mother’s right to
- breastfeed.   It is a treasure trove
- of information, inspiration, and
- support for working mothers.