Frequently Asked Question: What is a family issues consultant?

A family issues consultant is a new form of consulting that came on the market in the late 1980s in order to serve the needs of large and medium sized corporations who wanted to provide childcare, eldercare, concierge, and other family related support for their employees. Family consultants provide direct counselling to employees, make family care arrangements, or provide reports on local services so that employees can be informed and supported in family care services choice. Furthermore, the consultant can provide internal audits of a corporation’s services to see how satisfied the employees are with them. Family issues consultants allow the corporation to contract out the services that they cannot provide as well. In other words, they let service providers and experts in the field provide the best services for their employees in order to get the best results from childcare, personal arrangements, travel and personal services scheduling, eldercare, and other work-family related programs.