Olivia J. B. Baxter
Care Specialist
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Her Story
Olivia J. B. Baxter is a Family and Childcare Specialist with 20 years in family, child, and community care, education, and philanthropy. She has married her diverse experience and knowledge gained in the development of her multifarious background to engineer a unique practice of fostering enrichment, accessibility, and collaboration when working with individuals, families, youth, communities, and the people who care for them.
As a human development scholar, Olivia prioritizes continuous education, studying, researching, and observing how social enterprises impact the developments of people and our environments in our homes, schools, and daily environments. She's able to leverage her areas of study to help people and institutions identify needs, create and access resources, and cultivate practices of individual, family, and community care.
Below you'll find more information about Olivia's continuous commitment to increasing awareness and access to resources that help us develop and maintain our individual and collective wellbeing in our homes and world around us. ​
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Visit here to learn more about her family and childcare philosophy
Domestic Workforce
Advocacy and education in household employment.
Olivia's research heavily focuses on the benefits and outcomes of policy regulations within the domestic workforce.
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20 years ago, when she entered the domestic industry, she was unaware of how, if at all, any labor laws applied to her employment status as a Nanny and family assistant. Over the years she learned domestic professionals were considered housheold employees, and therefore had the same rights to fair labor laws.
Overtime, families and professionals relied on her knowledge to become better informed themselves and feel confident in their understanding of employment and taxation laws, and how to manage their responsibilities of household employer and employee.
Today she works with employers, employees and organizations to identify, understand, enforce, and inform household employment labor laws.
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