Family Friendly Initiative

The Family-Friendly Pueblo County Initiative, is a program that was developed by the Pueblo Department of Public Health and Environment in 2019. This initiative seeks to build support for affordable and quality childcare and assist businesses with adopting family-friendly workplace policies. The main goal is to work with diverse communities to increase health, safety, and economic security for women and their families through the implementation of primary prevention strategies across Colorado.

The Latino Chamber of Commerce of Pueblo officially earned the Family Friendly designation in the summer of 2022 and in the fall of 2022, the Latino Chamber and the Pueblo Department of Public Health and Environment partnered together to assist local organizations in becoming Family Friendly. Through this partnership the Latino Chamber and the Pueblo Department of Public Health and Environment will work together in assisting the small business community with:

Enrolling in health, dental, and vision insurance
Implementing retirement packages
Making changes and modifications to employee handbooks, policies & procedures, and employee onboarding/training
Minimizing employee turnover
Developing additional employee and workplace benefits

Family-Friendly Workplaces

Family-friendly workplace achievement focuses on policy and procedure changes within worksites to support employees and their families.

Studies show family-friendly workplace policies:

Increase rates of recruitment and retention of employees
Increase employee productivity
Reduce overall stress in family households
Reduce risk factors for child abuse and neglect

These improvements in the workplace are accomplished through an improved work and life balance and a stable income to provide for basic needs for the employee and their family, which, in turn, positively impacts the employer.