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and the Employee Education health and wellbeing. The
Program (EEP) is just one of the WorkLife at UF website provides
opportunities provided to help information about and access to
you accomplish your educational the many wellness, family, and
goals. community resources available

The EEP empowers full-time to you.
TEAMS and USPS employees Awwww, Look at
who have been employed in “Go after what you Those Baby Gators!
good standing for at least really love and find a
six months to receive tuition way to make that work If you have children between the
assistance for up to six credit for you, and then you’ll ages of six weeks and five years,
hours of instruction per semester be a happy person.” you may consider seeking care
at the state university closest —Tom Petty, singer, for them at one of UF’s three
to their work location. TEAMS songwriter, multi- Baby Gator Child Development
employees may also attend instrumentalist, and Centers. Baby Gators grow
classes at a public community native Gainesvillian and learn in a safe and healthy
or state college closest to their environment with a caring and
work location. For example, attentive staff of well-trained
if you work in Gainesville or Alachua County, early childhood educators. The curriculum is
the EEP will only apply to classes taken at the designed to encourage children to experience
University of Florida or Santa Fe College. To the world around them.
learn more, start with the EEP Tutorial.
Baby Gator addresses the needs of all children
Higher Education and fosters growth in social, behavioral,

Opportunity (HEO) cognitive, and physical skills as well as early
literacy skills. If you have questions, you can
UF’s Higher Education Opportunity (HEO) read more on the Baby Gator website or send an
provides children of full-time TEAMS employees email to babygator@admin.ufl.edu.
with the opportunity of tuition assistance for
an undergraduate education at the University We Get By With A Little
of Florida. Each year, UFHR will choose at Help from Our Friends…
random from a pool of eligible applicants 150 The Employee Assistance
children of TEAMS employees to participate
in this program. If you are interested in this Program (EAP)
program, there are some registration deadlines.
Please visit the website to learn more about the The Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
provides a wide range of services, including
application process.
confidential individual employee evaluation,
Finding Balance and Staying counseling and referral, consultation services for

Healthy supervisors, workshops, training sessions, and
support groups.

At UF, we know that the quality of our life and Up to six visits for individual consultation
the quality of our work are interdependent are available to UF employees at no cost.
— and as such, we place a high value on your These confidential sessions are provided

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