This kit is designed to help employers understand the range of family needs emerging in the workplace and the numerous options for a company response. An introduction discusses the need for child care services, dependent care problems, and how employers respond and benefit. Sections address the following: selecting the right option in relation to corporate culture, employees' needs, and community resources; benefits, leaves, and services, including flexible benefits, maternity and family leave, personal leave time, work/family responsive services, and supervisor training; alternative work schedules, including flexitime, voluntary reduced time, part-time work, job sharing, phased retirement, and flexiplace; and dependent care options, such as on-site or near-site child care centers, consortium centers, resource and referral for child care, vouchers, discounts, programs for part-time or emergency care, sick-child care, and elder care services. Eighteen references and 53 resources are listed. The kit also provides a state-of-the-art review of the options, including for each a description, factors to consider, advantages, and disadvantages. The options are as follows: job sharing, flexitime, flexible leave policies, compressed workweek, part-time employment, flexiplace/telecommuting, voluntary reduced worktime, and telephone access. Information on implementing child care program options covers alternative work schedules, steps in developing them, advantages and disadvantages, and technical assistance needed. (YLB)