An inclusive benefits package can speak volumes about how an employer chooses to support its employees. One area that is often overlooked is access to family building support for LGBTQ+ employees.
A recent panel at Open Finance Forum NYC discussed the future of family for the LGBTQ+ community – from the political landscape to understanding the employee experience to organizational benefit strategies.
Watch highlights from the event below, featuring insights from panelists: Carole Noujaim, SVP of Strategy Sales, Progyny; Stacey Stevenson, President and CEO of Family Equality; Sarah Reinke-Dejak, Senior Director of Marketing, Progyny.
The LGBTQ+ family building landscape
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- How Family Equality is working toward their mission of creating a world where everyone can experience family – including policy work, resources to support LGBTQ+ families moving away from hostile states, community-based programs and guides, and more
- How people of color are uniquely impacted by challenges in the LGBTQ+ family building landscape
- What employers and corporations can do to help protect LGBTQ+ employees and their right to family
- The impact of meaningful support for employees and families, including attraction, retention, productivity, and morale
Benefits and considerations before the next election
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- The future of LGBTQ+ policy – much of it bright, with 62 million American voters prioritizing LGBTQ+ rights when deciding who to vote for
- How organizations can advocate for and protect LGBTQ+ families as we look ahead to the next election
- Policy work underway to update definitions of infertility to be more inclusive
- The importance of understanding your rights as a family, adoption laws by state, and the legal nature of a parent-child relationship
An employer’s benefit strategy and policy
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- The challenges employees are currently facing, and how employers are addressing those concerns
- Understanding the breadth of the family building spectrum and how it impacts a population: from preconception to maternity to postpartum to menopause and women’s health
- Streamlining the logistics of benefits (implementation, contracts, security reviews, etc.)
- How traditional insurance plans with dollar caps can compromise care due to decisions being made based on cost rather than outcomes
- How Progyny is addressing gaps and nuances in care in the family building space across different communities
- How a specialized provider network positively impacts outcomes reporting and success rates of healthcare treatments
- How organizations can better understand the challenges facing the LGBTQ+ community and be more vocal in their support and advocacy for the community
A dive into the employee experience
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- The unique journey one employee took to build her family, and barriers to care along the way
- How LGBTQ+ families can be excluded from fertility treatment coverage due to infertility diagnosis requirements
- What an equitable fertility benefit looks like and how it impacts the employee experience
- The impact of support and patient advocacy
Family Equality is working toward a world where everyone can experience family. For more information about their work and support for the LGBTQ+ community, take a look at their 2023 recap. To learn more about their impact firsthand, browse their story library.
Progyny is charting a new path for fertility and family benefits for employers. To understand if a company is providing an equitable family building benefit, check out Progyny’s checklist. To better understand the LGBTQ+ family building landscape and the impact of benefits, dive into Progyny’s LGBTQ+ Fertility and Family Building Survey.