Boston Children’s provides support for you and your family’s wellbeing.
Explore the programs below to find help with childcare and provides other resources for both you and your family.
Lactation support benefits are available for breastfeeding employees. Call 617-355-0005, email kimberly.barbas@childrens.harvard.edu, or click here.
If you’re enrolled in the Boston Children’s Medical Plan, the Maven program offers a range of personalized support across fertility, family building, pregnancy, parenting, and other life stages:
Connect with a personalized, dedicated care advocate, available 24/7, 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.
Take advantage of Boston Children’s Child Care Assistance benefit and make childcare more affordable. If you’re scheduled for 20+ hours per week and earn $100,000 or less annually, you may qualify for support that helps cover the cost of licensed childcare for one eligible child until they turn 7. It’s designed to give you peace of mind, flexibility, and meaningful savings as you balance work and family life.
Eligible employees apply annually in December or within 30 days of a new hire event or new enrollment in a new child care program. This benefit is administered monthly directly to your paycheck.
Before applying, read the Policy and FAQs then submit the application form with backup per the instructions outlined in these documents.
Questions can be emailed directly to childcareassistance@childrens.harvard.edu
The Center provides the highest quality care for children with developmentally appropriate and nurturing programs. 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.
Effective January 1, 2027, we are expanding our family building resources to include surrogacy support. You can submit up to $10,000 per child in qualified surrogacy or adoption expenses, up to a $20,000 lifetime maximum reimbursement for both adoption and surrogacy reimbursement.
See below for eligible and ineligible expenses for the Surrogacy Assistance Program:
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The Application Form and Plan Summary are posted to the Plan Documents and Forms page on Hub 2.0.
Questions? For the fastest assistance, please submit your request through the HR Hub Portal. If you are unable to access the Portal, you may email HRHub@childrens.harvard.edu.
Boston Children’s provides up to $10,000 in adoption assistance for qualified expenses associated with the legal adoption of a child under the age of 18. Adoption is a Qualifying Life Event (QLE) to update your benefit elections to add your new dependent. Upon the date of adoption, employees have 30 days to update benefit elections to be inclusive of adoptee. Log into PeopleSoft Self-Service to process your changes.
To qualify for reimbursement, 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 $10,000 per adopted child, per family with a $20,000 lifetime maximum.
Take a look below to see eligible and ineligible expenses for the Adoption Assistance program:
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The Application Form and Plan Summary are posted to the Plan Documents and Forms page on Hub 2.0
Questions? For the fastest assistance, please submit your request through the HR Hub Portal. If you are unable to access the Portal, you may email HRHub@childrens.harvard.edu.
* Franciscan’s employees have access to this benefit starting January 1, 2027.
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As a hospital employee, you can send your child to the Boston Children’s Child Care Center for best-in-class early childhood education. The Child Care Center is a safe, inclusive space that supports busy families with extended care hours and a focus on preparing young children for kindergarten and beyond.
View the Brookline/Newton Child Care Center flyer for more information about the program, locations, and available resources, or contact Donna Condon at 617-355-6006 or donna.condon@childrens.harvard.edu.