June is recognized as Pride Month to commemorate the Stonewall Uprising, when police clashed with LGBTQ+ protesters in New York City in June 1969. During this commemorative month, we celebrate LGBTQ+ culture and activism, memorialize those lost to hate crimes or HIV/AIDS, and recognize LGBTQ+ individuals for their impact on history. It’s also an opportunity to promote equal justice and opportunity for all members of the LGBTQ+ community.
Learn how you can be an ally for inclusion and belonging with these AECOM resources:
- 10 Ways to Be an Ally
- Ways to Support Your LGBTQ+ Colleagues and Community
- Tips for Parents of LGBTQ+ Children (register with Company ID: AECOM)
- 6 Tips for Talking about Pride Month and LGBTQ+ Rights with Kids
- What LGBTQIA+ Inclusive Child Care Looks Like, Why it’s Important, and How to Find it
- How to Support Your LGBTQ+ Child as They Come Out
Supporting LGBTQ+ Employees and Their Families at AECOM
AECOM has been recognized as a Best Place to Work for LGBTQ+ Equality in part because of the great benefits and resources we offer to support our diverse employees and their families. See below for ways AECOM benefits and resources can help you thrive, or see the one-page printable summary of U.S. and Global Benefits and Resources to Support Our LGBTQ+ Employees and Their Families.
Build Your Social Support Network
- Consider joining the Pride employee resource group at AECOM.
- Help raise awareness and share your thoughts with the Global Well-Being Community.
- Share the monthly U.S. Benefits To-Dos e-newsletter and this benefits website with your family.
- Encourage your spouse/domestic partner to join our well-being programs (they can earn rewards too).
Improve Your Physical Health
- Access same-sex and opposite-sex spouse and domestic partner coverage through the U.S. health care and voluntary benefit plans.
- Through the U.S. medical plans, you and your spouse/domestic partner can receive coverage for:
- Gender confirmation counseling, surgery and therapy.
- Infertility treatment, including artificial insemination, in vitro fertilization and assisted reproduction (GIFT, ZIFT); cryopreservation of eggs and sperm covered in cases of iatrogenic infertility (e.g., cancer).
- HIV; PrEP drugs at no cost. (Confirm which PrEP drugs are covered by your carrier.)
- You and your covered dependents can receive support for gender affirming procedures and services, including mental health support and counseling, hormone therapy, penectomy, orchiectomy, clitoroplasty, labiaplasty and vaginoplasty. (Contact your medical carrier for details about covered procedures and requirements.)
- If you are enrolled in an AECOM U.S. medical plan, access expert medical advice and second opinions through 2nd.MD at no cost to you, including finding a local in-network specialist who meets your needs, collecting and transferring medical records and scheduling appointments.
- Learn how to advocate for your own health by watching this recorded LGBTQ+ Health Advocacy WELLbinar, hosted by 2nd.MD (register to receive a link to the recording).
Mind Your Mental Health
- Receive free confidential counseling and work/life balance resources through the GuidanceResources Employee Assistance Program (EAP).
- Use our eM Life benefit to build a mindfulness habit, learn to be more present in your daily life and help you be your authentic self through acceptance and celebration with resources like:
- Train your brain and improve your mental health in the same way you train your muscles, with Total Brain.
Power Up Your Finances
- Access tools and resources to help you improve your finances and save for important life events.
- Prepare for a financial emergency with this Financial Well-Being Checklist.
- Connect with a financial advisor for personalized help with your unique financial needs.
- Save on everyday expenses with Smart Spend and additional discounts.
- Save and invest for your future with the Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP) and the Retirement & Savings Plan (RSP) – 401(k).
- Reduce and manage your student loan debt and receive free college financial planning with Gradifi.
Boost Your Career
- Learn about tuition reimbursement and other education assistance opportunities.
Reduce Stress with Parental Resources
- Use Care.com to find caregivers and for subsidized backup care.
- Learn about AECOM’s Paid Parental Leave benefits.
- Access the fertility health care and family-forming benefit through Carrot Fertility (if you’re enrolled in an AECOM U.S. medical plan). If you can, join the LGBTQ+ Family Forming WELLbinar hosted by Carrot on June 27 (or register to receive a linked to the recorded event).
- Receive up to $5,000 in Adoption Assistance per eligible adoption.
- Explore the wide array of resources to support LGBTQ+ employees and their families offered through the EAP, including an LGBTQ+ Adoption Guide, which addresses the unique set of challenges faced by the LGBTQ+ community when adopting a child.
Be Well in Every Way
- Embrace a healthy lifestyle by participating in the U.S. Well-Being program and the Global Well-Being program (and invite your spouse/domestic partner to participate as well).
- Find resources for coming out, information to help you understand your rights as a member of the LGBTQ+ community, youth resources, relationship resources and more in the LGBTQ+ Resource Guide, offered through the EAP.
- See Livongo’s guide to festive foods for Pride Month and Juneteenth.