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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 childcare and other resources for both you and your family.

Lactation Support

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 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.

Click here to get started.

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 Childcare 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 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

Eligible employees apply annually in December or within 30 days of a new hire event or new enrollment in childcare. 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.

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. Adoption is a qualifying life event. Upon the date of adoption, employees have 30 days to update benefit elections to be inclusive of adoptee.

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

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.

* Franciscans does not offer this benefit at this time.

PerkSpot

As a Boston Children’s employee, you have access to exclusive deals on everyday essentials for parents,
families, and caregivers through PerkSpot.

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Brookline/Newton Child Care Center

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.