Back-up Child Care

If you have ever missed work because your child care arrangements fell through on short notice, this benefit is for you.

The University recently announced a partnership with Caregivers on Call to provide back-up child care for qualified members of the Yale community.  The University and Yale parents share the cost, and participating families may use the service to receive up to 40 hours of back-up care per household.  Click here for registration information, program details, and hourly rates.

By launching this new program, the University has taken a positive first step toward fulfilling a pledge to enhance support for parents who study and work at Yale.  Representatives from Local 34 and Local 35 are participating in the University Worklife Subcommittee on Child Care to ensure that the University’s next steps will increase access to high-quality child care at prices all Yale staff can afford.

Leaders of Local 34 and representatives of other Yale employee groups – including Local 35, GESO and the Women’s Faculty Forum – are continuing to press Yale to do more to create a family-friendly campus by providing affordable daycare, more infant care, subsidies to centers for sliding scales and vouchers for alternative options. For more information or to get involved, please contact Lorraine Skibitcky of Local 34 (lorraine.skibitcky@yale.edu, 737-1007) or Meg Riccio of Local 35 (35@yaleunions.org, 562-4728).