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Childcare & Family Support

Support for you and your family

Boston Children’s provides support for you and your family’s wellbeing.

Explore the programs below to find help with child care and provide other resources for both you and your family.

Lactation Support

Lactation support benefits are available for breastfeeding employees. Call 617-355-0005.

If you’re enrolled in the Medical Plan, the Maven program offers a range of personalized support across fertility, family building, pregnancy, parenting, and other life stages:

  • Fertility: Exploring fertility options (IUI, IVF, egg freezing), managing your mental health, referrals to in-person clinics.
  • Family building: Navigating the adoption or surrogacy process, including financial counseling.
  • Menopause: Managing symptoms, understanding treatment options, pelvic floor strengthening exercises, and more.
  • Midlife: Includes male support and Low T

Connect 24/7 with a personalized, dedicated care advocate to help you understand your benefits and navigate your family health or family building journey. In addition, there is unlimited coaching and education through video appointments or messaging, with access to a network of more than 850+ reproductive and family health providers. Partners also have access.

When your regular childcare or eldercare is unavailable, or your child is mildly ill, Care.com can provide in-home care 24/7. Care.com can also help you find a caregiver, as well as someone to help with errands, pet sitting/walking, housekeeping, or tutoring. Contact Care.com at 1-855-781-1303.

The Childcare Assistance Subsidy benefit can help cover childcare costs. To qualify, you must be an employee regularly scheduled to work 20 or more hours per week with an annual salary of $100,000 or less. This program covers one eligible child, up to the child’s 7th birthday, per eligible employee.  

  • Eligible employees regularly scheduled to work 30 or more hours per week can receive a subsidy of up to $200 per month
  • Eligible employees regularly scheduled to work 20 or more hours per week can receive a subsidy of up to $100 per month

More information, FAQs, and the application form are available on The Hub: Online, Childcare Assistance Subsidy page.

The Center accepts a limited number of enrollments for children of employees ages three months to five years. Please see the Boston Children’s Child Care Center page under the Depts & Programs tab on The Hub: Online for more information.

Boston Children’s provides up to $8,000 in adoption assistance for qualified expenses associated with the legal adoption of a child under the age of 18. To qualify, you must be an employee regularly scheduled to work 20 or more hours per week. If you and your spouse both work at Boston Children’s, the maximum benefit is $8,000 per adopted child, per family.

Take a look below to see eligible and ineligible expenses for the Adoption Assistance program:

Eligible expenses

Fees for private or public agencies, child placement, and home study

  • Reasonable travel expenses associated with the adoption process
  • Physical exams for adoptive parents, siblings, and the adopted child
  • Cost of a child’s medical expenses required to finalize the adoption
  • Legal fees associated with processing the adoption
  • Post-adoption counseling for the child or family

Ineligible expenses

Medical care and counseling for the birth mother

  • Personal travel expenses, such as visas, passports, meals, or luggage
  • Expenses claimed under the federal adoption expense tax credit
  • Legal fees for contested adoptions
  • Miscellaneous administrative costs, such as fax, phone, or postage fees

Please contact HRHub at HRHub@childrens.harvard.edu or 617-355-7780, x 57780 for specific details.