Jessica, when Ilooked at this site I thought it was geared more to corporate managers and executives. Although it had some good informationit just seemed to me that it was more interested in saying that there are good companies dedicated to work family issue and provider seminars. If I was a executive at a company, it would be a site I would look into but, if I wanted to see ideas as to the work/family issues I would look somewhere else.

The National Child Care Information and Technical Assistance Center (NCCIC) is a website devoted to providing childcare information to parents for the development of their children and information to those in the childcare field. NCCIC provides information for childcare companies and parents that are the target audience for NCCIC material. The information that I reviewed from the website was very relevant to childcare and offered information that I found to be very useful. The NCCIC provided a searchable library that can help a user find articles and information on work and family issues. It also provided information for professional development in the child care field. I found the NCCIC site to be very credible because it is sponsored only by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. One of the more interesting observations about the website is the information for the licensing for child care providers. The website did not have any advertisement and sponsors and is fully owned by the U S Health department. This leads me to believe that the site does not have a bias and is strictly there to provide information. There we not any links to take users to websites to join to further a political agenda. This in my opinion is always a great sign. The only issue that I have with the site is that it is too much information. This can be overwhelming to typical users and such. The library to pull research and articles is a bit difficult to use. However if I was interested in child care and wanted to develop a further understanding of finding out about the procedure to become a licensed child care facility, this would be a place I would recommend.

Corporate voices for working families a business membership that is dedicated to helping public and corporate organizations discusss working family issue. It is clearly lead by private and publicly traded companies. I believe that the intended audience for this site is both corporate managers and working families that have hourly and non exempt worker. The corporate voices for working families work on 5 key issues and they are workforce readiness, workplace flexibility, family economic stability, work and family issues and legislative issues. Overall I think the website offered some great information as to how managers can implement more family friendly policies. I also thought the website is non partisan because it has section dedicated to Congress men and women that have helped to advance the work/family issue. In reading some of the information the site provide one of the things that I really enjoyed reading was the idea of helping make hourly employees just as successful as non hourly employees. One of the things comapnies forget that their hourly employees are just as important as non hourly employees. The website does provide documentation as to who are the corporate partners are and in my opinion does not have a hidden agenda. It seems to care about issues that working families face and how to improve work/life issues for hourly employees. There are several issues that I learned about in reading the website. First is that companies need to be concerned about work family issues not just for managers and exempt employees but also hourly workers. Many companies only look at work life from an exempt employee point of view and not hourly workers that are just as critical. I also learned about lactation programs for working mothers. I also learned about work place development. That at a time when there is so many having economic hardship that now is not the time to eliminate work for development programs. One of the best things that I learned in readin