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
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.
Caregiver 911 - How to Prepare for Emergencies, Natural Disasters with an Older Loved One: Wednesday, July 17, 2024, 1 p.m. Eastern Time
With every part of the country challenged with natural disasters that can happen unexpectedly, how prepared are you to help an older loved one, whether they live near or far, at home or in a senior living community, face the aftermath of fires, hurricanes, tornadoes and other devastating events? Planning ahead is key and we take you through what to know, how to communicate with your loved one and how to ensure your family is ready for the unknown.
Child Care & Parenting
Summer Care and Camp Options: Wednesday, May 22, 2024, 1 p.m. Eastern Time
Identifying quality summer care for children requires information to discern the best option. This talk will help you assess your summer care needs, review summer care costs and give an overview of summer options for children and teens.
Internet Information for Parents: Wednesday, June 26, 2024, 1 p.m. Eastern Time
In this talk about Internet safety, participants will review the language, identify concerns and risks; learn strategies to increase safety online; discuss instant messaging, texting, social networking and chat rooms; and identify resources and monitoring software.
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
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.
Retirement & Estate Planning: Wednesday, August 14, 2024, 1 p.m. Eastern Time
This workshop will provide you with strategies for creating a successful retirement and estate plan. The information will help you to assess your current financial situation, set retirement goals and provide helpful resources for investing.
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
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.
Brain Health: Thursday, August 22, 2024, 1 p.m. Eastern Time
Maintaining good brain health and memory fitness can make a big difference as you try to remember names and faces, recall important information or retain facts. In this talk, you will learn to maintain a healthy brain and boost brain power.
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