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Get Involved!  Here's how:

Spread the word!

• Download our flier (parentsatdukeflier.doc), print it out, and post it on a bulletin board near you.

• Link to our web site (http://www.duke.edu/web/parentsatduke) from your personal web pages, or from any University pages you maintain where a link would be relevant.

• Subscribe to our listserv.

• Email other Duke parents you know to let them know about our work.
  
  

Want to make a bigger difference?

Contact the Steering Committee if you're interested in working on our major issues.

Currently on the table (for details, see our current Working Proposal (proposal2002.pdf)

• Central Campus planning: working toward programming and facilities for Duke parents
   
• Insurance coverage for children with developmental disabilities
   
• Increasing availability and affordability of midwifery care
   

• Extending the Parental Paid Leave Benefit

• Lactation Rooms:  See results of the October 2004 campus lactation room survey (LacRmSurvey.pdf)

• Child care

• Creating a Family-Friendly Campus Climate
  
  

Topics we are thinking about for the future:

• Helping support parents of school-age children

• Chronic or acute illnesses in family members (elder care, ill spouses or children)

• Using Duke's political power to effect change in family-friendly policies at a city and state level

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  Last updated February 17, 2006. Send comments or suggestions to the web editor: sara@duke.edu.

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