CBP worklife balance services include live-talk and on-demand webinars available to CBP employees and their family members through LifeCare. Webinar topics span a wide-range of life events and offer insights, strategies, and information designed to help our employees meet the challenges they might be facing. If you cannot attend the live webinars, you can still register to receive an on-demand recording to watch at your leisure.
How to Access or Register
Employees and their family members can use the complimentary access button below to access webinars and limited features without registering for a membership account. Complimentary access may not provide access to all LifeCare features and services.
Employees already registered for CBP Backup Care services or with LifeCare will use their membership screen name and password to access webinars. Employees can also use their government email address to register for a membership account or personalized complimentary access.
Upcoming Care Talks
Each month employees and family members can participate in Care Talk events focused on parenting, caregiving, resiliency, and personal health. If you cannot attend the live family care webinars, you can still register to receive an on-demand recording to watch at your leisure.
Aging & Adult Care
How to Modify Our Homes for More Safety, Serenity and Less Stress: Wednesday, April 17, 2024, 1 p.m. Eastern Time
89% of older Americans prefer to stay living in their homes as long as possible, Whether you are helping your older parents or grandparents stay at home longer, or you need your own home to be a sanctuary, this session focuses on the principles of universal design for aging and Well Home Design standards to create our dream homes. The moderator will take a Peter Pan house (a home built for someone who is never going to age) and go room by room showing you how to make a home safe, how to address air care, green eco and sustainable design and the new trend in biophilic design to create healing spaces for a lifetime.
Caregiver Burnout - Mental & Emotional Health Help: Wednesday, May 15, 2024, 1 p.m. Eastern Time
May is National Mental Health Month and surveys show caregivers experience more burnout and stress than the general population. This talk touches upon the challenges to mental and emotional health and how to find more happiness, joy and balance in life. Participants will get tips on how to understand emotional vibrations, how to use daydreaming for building resilience, learning to let go of grief and guilt and establish boundaries that negatively impact health and wellness, understanding situational versus clinical depression. The session also includes a tool known as the Social Convoy model to create a care team for emotional support and getting a respite break.
How to Modify Our Homes for More Safety, Serenity and Less Stress: Wednesday, April 17, 2024, 1 p.m. Eastern Time
89% of older Americans prefer to stay living in their homes as long as possible, Whether you are helping your older parents or grandparents stay at home longer, or you need your own home to be a sanctuary, this session focuses on the principles of universal design for aging and Well Home Design standards to create our dream homes. The moderator will take a Peter Pan house (a home built for someone who is never going to age) and go room by room showing you how to make a home safe, how to address air care, green eco and sustainable design and the new trend in biophilic design to create healing spaces for a lifetime.
Child Care & Parenting
Communicating and Resolving Conflict with Your Teen: Wednesday, March 27, 2024, 1 p.m. Eastern Time
This talk will provide you with practical communication tips to improve your connection with your teen and for resolving conflicts. Effective communication makes time together more enjoyable, discipline effective and conflict resolution successful.
Teaching Children About Money: Wednesday, April 24, 2024, 1 p.m. Eastern Time
This talk covers how to teach children about money by looking at our own money values and how we communicate about money. We will discuss setting goals, spending and saving strategies.
Emotional Wellness
Tools to Live Your Best Life: Thursday, May 2, 2024, 1 p.m. Eastern Time
This talk walks participants through the various tools to enhance their lives. It reminds and teaches them the importance of prioritizing their mental and physical health. Participants will review best practices to add to this critical tool kit.
The Path to Inner Peace: Thursday, July 11, 2024, 1 p.m. Eastern Time
This talk can show you the way to inner peace. We will examine how to let go of things that work counter, examine how one’s past may help, how to come to acceptance and explore best practices for maintaining inner peace.
Financial Wellness
Overcoming Debt: Wednesday, April 10, 2024, 1 p.m. Eastern Time
Carrying too much debt today can jeopardize your financial future. In this talk, participants will address the difference between good debt and bad debt, the impact of interest charges, managing your spending habits and creating good saving habits.
Creating a Budget: Wednesday, June 12, 2024, 1 p.m. Eastern Time
Learn about the basics of budgeting and how to better manage your money. This talk discusses determining financial priorities, how to reduce expenses, recognizing debt trouble and strategies for saving.
Raising Children with Disabilities & Neurodiversity
Parenting a Child with ADD/ADHD: Tuesday June 11, 2024, 1 p.m. Eastern Time
This talk provides a general overview of ADD/ADHD, including testing and diagnosis. The session will also go over treatment options for ADD/ADHD as well as strategies for success
Succeed at Work
Managing Strong Emotions: Thursday, May 16, 2024, 1 p.m. Eastern Time
Strong emotions are inevitable. This talk goes beyond identifying emotions to help you manage and control yourself when all of your buttons have been pushed. You need real strategies to enable you to say and do the right thing. Participants will share state-of-the-art techniques that will ensure you will keep your cool.
The Positive Effect of Self Esteem on Performance: Thursday, July 18, 2024, 1 p.m. Eastern Time
This talk will outline a way to rewire your brain to be more optimistic and increase self-confidence. Participants will also discuss ways to build self-esteem and how to control your negative thoughts.
Your Healthy Lifestyle
Eating Right on the Run and on a Budget: Thursday, April 25, 2024, 1 p.m. Eastern Time
We all make excuses for eating junk or fast food. We’ll review strategies for quick, inexpensive meals that are good choices. Learn the basics of eating healthy within your financial means
Dealing with Sleep Issues: Thursday, July 25, 2024, 1 p.m. Eastern Time
Do you have difficulty sleeping? Check out this talk where you’ll explore sleep disorders and their causes (circadian rhythms, insomnia and snoring/sleep apnea), discuss the benefits of sleep studies and examine sleep’s relationship to stress and the release of cortisol. Additionally, you’ll identify ways to address insomnia and leave with helpful resources.
Featured On-Demand Webinars
Workday Workouts
This webinar explores the benefits of exercise and the importance of proper form and equipment to maximize those benefits. It also looks at the role of attitude and goals on the success of an exercise program. The presenter identifies the components of a well-rounded workout, discusses eating well and ends with examples of workouts which can be done at your workstation.
This webinar will help you:
- understand why exercise is vital
- learn how to easily make exercise a part of your daily life
- understand what type of exercise you should be doing and how often
- discover why eating nutritiously is just as important as sweating often
- learn some things you can do throughout your work day to stay fit