CBP work-life 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 Your Home for More Safety, Serenity, and Less Stress
Wednesday, April 16, 2025, from 1:00 – 2:00 pm ET
Whether we are helping our older parents or grandparents say at home longer - 89% of older Americans prefer to stay living in their homes as long as possible - or we are needing our homes to be our sanctuaries, this session focuses on the principles of universal design for aging and Well Home Design standards to create our dream homes. We’ll 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 your home or your loved one’s 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
Wednesday, May 21, 2025, from 1:00 – 2:00 pm ET
May is National Mental Health Month and surveys show caregivers experience more burnout and stress than the general population. This session touches upon the challenges to mental and emotional health and how to find more happiness, joy and balance in life. 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 vs 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.
Child Care & Parenting:
Communicating and Resolving Conflict with your Teen
Wednesday, April 23, 2025, from 1:00 – 2:00 pm ET
This webinar 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.Screen Guide
Wednesday, May 28, 2025, from 1:00 – 2:00 pm ET
In today’s digital world many parents are conflicted on when and how often to let children use their “screens”. We will discuss age limits, and help parents define for themselves and their families their limits. We will also recommend some of the apps/web sites that have been approved.
Emotional Wellness:
The Path to Inner Peace
Thursday, May 1, 2025, from 1:00 – 2:00 pm ET
This workshop 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 9, 2025, from 1:00 – 2:00 pm ET
Carrying too much debt today can jeopardize your financial future. We will address the difference between good debt and bad debt, the impact of interest charges, managing your spending habits and creating good saving habits.Investment Basics
Wednesday, May 14, from 1:00 – 2:00 pm ET
Understanding investment basics helps ensure your money will be there when you need it. The seminar will differentiate between saving and investing, identify the principles of investing and explain how to assess your financial health.
Succeed at Work:
Increasing Mental Toughness
Thursday, April 17, 2025, from 1:00 – 2:00 pm ET
This seminar is about using challenging times as an opportunity to increase our mental toughness, finding a positive way to look at negative event. We will discuss what it means to be mentally tough and we will also dive into the topic of Grit.Building Better Relationships Through Effective Communication
Thursday, May 15, 2025, from 1:00 – 2:00 pm ET
Good communication skills are essential in creating and maintaining productive relationships. We will discuss the barriers to effective communication and how to be a good communicator.
Your Healthy Lifestyle:
The Connection Between Mental Health and Exercise
Tuesday, April 22, 2025, from 1:00 – 2:00 pm ET
Exercise is great for our bodies, but what can it do for our mental state? Come explore how exercise contributes to a healthy brain, what actually happens to our brain when we exercise and why it is so essential to our mental health.Bounce Back Stronger
Tuesday, May 27, 2025, from 1:00 – 2:00 pm ET
No matter what life throws at us, we can always learn tips and techniques to use daily to become more resilient. You will leave feeling empowered with the knowledge of what steps to take to become more resilient.
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