Workplace Guide to Fertility: For Colleagues

This workplace guide is meant for colleagues to better understand what their co-workers or employees are going through when they need to undergo fertility treatments. Includes sensitivity training on what to say and not to say when a co-worker is going through infertility or needs fertility treatments to build their family

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Workplace Guide to Fertility: For Colleagues
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Experts you'll learn from

Dr. Torie Comeaux Plowden

Assistant Division Director
Walter Reed Medical Center

Alice Domar, PhD

Associate Professor, OBGYN
Harvard Medical School

Beth Jaeger-Skigen

Licensed Therapist & LCSW
RESOLVE Committee Member

Jeffrey Levin, LMSW

Family Planning Coordinator
The L.G.B.T. Community Center

What you'll learn

Fertility treatments are incredibly stressful and, mixed with the stress of work, things can boil over. This is a guide for co-workers to understand what their colleagues are going through, so that they can help create a supportive workplace environment. We cover everything from the things you should say & the things you should avoid saying to your co-workers, to the ways that fertility treatments will concretely impact work schedules.

Course Syllabus4 Lessons0h 19m

  1. In this lesson we'll cover:
    1. This Is A Hard Period
  2. Lesson 2 (5 min)
    Fertility Treatments 101
    In this lesson we'll cover:
    1. Overview of Treatments
    2. Natural Conception or Medication
    3. IUI or Intrauterine Insemination
    4. IVF or In Vitro Fertilization
    5. IVF with 3rd Party
  3. In this lesson we'll cover:
    1. Why Patients Need Their Jobs
    2. Loyalty and Return To Work
    3. Schedules
  4. Lesson 4 (5 min)
    What to Say & Not Say
    In this lesson we'll cover:
    1. What to Say
    2. What You Shouldn’t Say