Helping you balance your Work and your Life
Work Life Philosophy
The purpose of the Work Life initiative is to strike a reasonable balance between the needs of the Coast Guard and the needs of our members and their families. The goal is to create a total quality environment by which the Coast Guard will achieve organizational excellence and continue to provide valued services to our customers.
Work Life issues are critical to individual and organizational achievement. They will always affect the Coast Guard's mission performance and are certain to impact the future. Work Life balance enhances diversity, recruitment, retention, and most importantly, the job performance of the Coast Guard's workforce.
For the Coast Guard to effectively compete as an employer in the 21st century, we must build and maintain necessary support systems to provide a quality of life to our employees.
The Coast Guard recognizes that Work Life issues are critical to individual and organizational success. Achieving the Work Life balance combines the formal structure of the Work Life staff with an entire network of providers.
Our Services
Our services are available to all active duty members, reservists on active duty, and their family members in the ISC Boston area of responsibility. Civilians' eligibility for services may vary.
Our services are organized in the following programs:
Provides EAP counseling referrals, conducts prevention trainings in Workplace Violence, Suicide Prevention, Sexual Assault/Rape Prevention. Coordinates command requests for Critical Incident Stress Management (CISM) response and conducts CISM training.
Quick Response Checklists (QRCs) to be used by District 1 Commands to respond to Rape/Sexual Assault, Suicide, CISM, and Workplace Violence can be found on the EAP page.
Provide advocacy, information, referral, education, and case management services to Coast Guard families. This includes managing the Special Needs program.
Provide support for all types of domestic violence and abuse, conduct domestic violence prevention education and training, and serve as a liaison between military and civilian communities.
Transition and Relocation Program
Provide Coast Guard members with assistance when relocating, assist with transition from military to civilian careers including conducting TAP seminars, serve as the Ombudsman Program Manager.
Conduct lifestyle/fitness assessments for units or individuals, manage and train unit Health Promotion Coordinators, provide health-related presentations and educational materials (including tobacco cessation information), conduct health screenings, and serve as a source for individual dietary guidance.
Coordinate decedent affairs throughout District 1 and provide guidance to all unit decedent affairs officers and Casualty Assistance Calls Officers.
Military Funeral Honors/Burial at Sea
Serve as the District 1 Commander's representative for military funeral honors and coordinate all requests for funeral honors, including color guard, between local units and funeral homes and conduct training on proper protocol for funeral honors. Also serve as the central location for requests for burials at sea and coordinate execution of those requests with units within District 1.
Administer the Family Child Care program which certifies day care operations in Coast Guard-owned or -leased housing, assist parents with finding local child care resources, administer the GSA and Coast Guard subsidy programs.
Our Locations
Our primary location is ISC Boston, 427 Commercial St., Boston MA 02109. Our office is in Building 8 on the 7th deck.
We also have a satellite office at Sector New York, 215 Coast Guard Drive, Staten Island NY 10305.
Other Work Life Offices:
To reach a Work Life office elsewhere in the country, please call 1-800-872-4957 and enter the appropriate extension (you can also reach us through this toll free number):
Baltimore - 225
Boston - 301
Cape May - 629
Cleveland - 309
Honolulu - 314
Ketchikan - 317
Kodiak - 563
Miami - 307
New Orleans - 308
Portsmouth, VA - 305
San Pedro - 311
Seattle - 313
St. Louis - 302
Washington, DC - 932