5/4/2023 0 Comments Bright horizons backup care![]() Center based care is $20 per family per day. There is no splitting of days ( i.e. 2 hours today and 2 hours tomorrow). In other words, it doesn’t matter if you use 4 hours or 10, it counts as 1 day/event. If we use only 4 hours, it counts as a day against our balance. A day/event is a minimum of 4 hours, but a maximum of 10. ![]() S abrina: Our benefit is for 10 days/events a year. After that, it is: (a) Center-Based: $25 for one child per day, or $40 per “family” per day and (b) Home-Based: $8 per hour. For the initial three sessions, there is no co-pay. Q: How many days of back-up care are provided? Is there any cost to you?Ī: Orley: I get 20 days per calendar year. They work with local nanny agencies, including Loving Care Home Services. Bright Horizons is the overall provider, but a variety of centers (e.g., Kindercare) are available. Liz: My employer offers back up childcare in a daycare center or nanny service available in your home or hotel setting. If your child is sick and can’t attend a center when they are open, they will also send a nanny to your home. (They partner with La Petite Academy, for example.) My care has been on the weekend when the centers are not open, and they have sent a nanny to our home. You can bring your child to one of their day care centers or to a partner center. Sabrina: Care is provided through Bright Horizons. Here’s our interview: Q: It’s fantastic that your employer provides back-up care as a benefit! Who provides the care? Is it through a particular company? Is it center-based, home-based, or a combination of the two?Ī: Orley: The care is facilitated through a program called “Back Up Care Advantage,” and you have the option of center-based or home-based care. Each of their employers offers some form of back-up childcare as an employee benefit, and they have each had the opportunity to use the benefit for care of their little ones. I haven’t used a back-up childcare benefit myself, but I just interviewed three alumae of the Mindful Return Course, Orley Granot, Sabrina Hurst, and Liz Lapetina, who have. A benefit many employers provide, but that new parents often don’t even know about or understand. In short, there’s always an opportunity for a childcare crisis to rear its head at any moment. She's the minimum age allowed for it (4).Babies get sick. We checked availability and just signed her up for a Steve & Kate's winter camp which is open all 10 weekdays of those 2 weeks except 1 day. ![]() Our preschool is closed for 2 weeks, Dec 19-30, and my husband only will have accrued like 10 hrs sick leave and a couple days PTO by then, so this will be a nightmare with her home and me out of commission. I had him immediately sign up and check availability, because I'm getting a fairly major outpatient surgery for a pelvic prolapse (thanks childbirth + probably a connective tissue disorder) done on Dec 13th and may need quite a few weeks of recovery time.like recommendations are to not do any housekeeping, lifting more than 5 lbs etc for at least 3 weeks since it's critical that this heals as well as possible, as a reconstructive surgery. I just saw today going through his benefit materials that they offer 10 days per calendar year of backup care through Bright Horizons ($15/day copay, that's nothing), and the backup care can be used when your regular childcare is closed. My husband just started a new job at a university with better benefits than we've had before.
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