This EAP (Employee Assistance Program) is provided by Partners HealthCare which is a non-profit integrated healthcare delivery system in Eastern Massachusetts. They serve the employees of Partners HealthCare and some other healthcare providers in Eastern MA. They provide support for any work/life issue such as: Balancing work and family, childcare, eldercare resources, and family and marital concerns. Partners EAP is made up of volunteers who provide free services to include: short-term counseling, workplace based consultation, and information and referral programs for employees and their household members. All of the counselors are licensed professionals and the Partners Healthcare EAP was awarded accreditation by the Council of Accreditation, a hallmark of excellence for EAP providers that has been earned by less than 5% of EAPs internationally and the 2009 EAP Digest/Employee Assistance Professional Association Quality Award. In 2007 They were awarded the Corporate Award for EAP Excellence by the Employee Assistance Society of North America. All of the counselors and licenses held is also listed. The website for Partners EAP listed several resources for their employees. Some of the resources listed were for elder care, child care, and healthy living. Each resource had a link to the respective service website with address and phone numbers. Some of the resources contact information hadn't been updated for a few years but all the links that I tried worked. There is also a schedule for events that Partners EAP is hosting to include seminars on eldercare, nutrition, and childcare. Overall the website provided good information to their employees. I liked how the site guided you through steps on how to assess your situation and then provided a link to different providers that could help you. What I learned from this site is that resources are out there you just have to look for them. Partners EAP services are ALL free for their employees. They are also a

Chrysula's website is a blog where she writes about work life balance strategies. She also has a section to where you can contact her for coaching and advisement. Many of her posts focus on ways to lead an integrated life to include raising a family, working, and living by your values. She seems to usually write from either personal experience or the experiences of acquaintances. She also includes categories from work life balance to mothering, fathering, and reforming and has links for work life reformers such as Sloan Foundation Work and Family and Alliance for Work Life Progress. Chrysula's experience and qualifications include a Masters degree focusing on work life issues and training and development. She blogs regularly with MomsRising.org and the Huffington Post and she will also have work published in two books this year: Dare to Dream and The 12 Powers of Motherhood. She is the Social Media Marketing Director for Foundation/Mashable Digital Media Lounge for UN Week on Changing the World One Mother at a Time. Chrysula's information was both subjective and objective. She listed links in her blog posts to different research that was done on the topic she was discussing to back up her opinion or information. She also provided links to changes in government policy that dealt with work life balance. Her blogs and information were all current as well and the website was easy to navigate. It was also well maintained and every link to outside sites worked. Chrysula's attended audience seemed to be geared toward working mothers and women in general although she has a whole category on fathering and much of her advice can used by both men and women searching for balance in their lives. One thing that Chrysula mentions in many of her blog posts is the importance of actually talking to your boss about you work/life balance issues. You can complain all you want, but if you never ask for flexibility then you are never going to get it. I think that