JHU Benefits and Worklife offer Family and Caregiving Programs to help with child care, new and expectant parents, school-age and educational resources, and eldercare. You can reach the Worklife Specialists through the Benefits Service Center at 410-516-2000 or by email at [email protected].

Visit Johns Hopkins Benefits and Worklife or contact the HR Solution Center at 443-997-5400 for more information on programs to help you manage the daily challenges of integrating work, family and personal life during COVID.  

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Hear from Johns Hopkins experts in education, mental health and medicine about the latest recommendations, resources, and guidance Speakers include: Karen Swartz, MD, Associate Professor of Psychiatry Carisa Parrish, PhD, Associate Professor of Psychiatry Annette Anderson, PhD, Assistant Professor of Education Heidi Conway, Vice President for Human Resources

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• Employees and students of the Johns Hopkins Enterprise can use LOCATE: Child Care Corporate Enhanced Referral Service which provides customized referral services and child care information.  
• To request service, please complete the LOCATE: Child Care Johns Hopkins Registration Form, call 800.999.0120, or email [email protected].
• Once you’re registered, a referral specialist will contact you to provide individual counseling to assess your child care needs, and then match you with available services. You will receive referrals to registered family child care providers and licensed group programs in Maryland, as well as follow-up assistance until placement is found. LOCATE also provides materials on specialized child care options and services, federal income tax credits for families, and Maryland state financial assistance programs. 
• Applied Physics Laboratory employees, please contact the APL Employee Assistance Program or the LOCATE Community Line Service at 877.261.0060.  

For access to additional online resources and information, visit mySupport website powered by Aetna's Resources for Living.

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The Homewood Early Learning Center, located at the corner of Wyman Park Drive and Remington Avenue, offers a nurturing, high-quality environment where children have the time and space to develop at their own pace. Downtown Baltimore Child Care operates the center, which accommodates children ages 10 weeks through preschool, and is open to all, including community members. Priority admission is available to Johns Hopkins parents.

Homewood Early Learning Center 

The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Early Childhood Center, also operated by Downtown Baltimore Child Care, is a premier early learning facility whose teachers and staff believe all children deserve the best education from the earliest age. The product of years of planning by leading child advocates, the state-of-the-art Weinberg ECC, located near the East Baltimore campus, provides developmentally appropriate learning opportunities for children using the latest evidence-based approaches to ensure children start school ready to learn. The center’s 12-month, full-day operation serves a diverse mixed-income community of children and families who live and/or work in the Eager Park neighborhood and beyond. Priority admission is available to Johns Hopkins parents.

Weinberg Early Childhood Center

Located on the East Baltimore campus, the Johns Hopkins Child Care and Early Learning Center is designed to serve full-time faculty and staff, full-time day students, house staff, and fellows of the Johns Hopkins University schools of Medicine, Nursing, Public Health; and full-time employees of Johns Hopkins Hospital, Health System, and Bayview Medical Center. The center is open to children ages 6 weeks through preschool for full-time care.  The center is operated by Bright Horizons.

Johns Hopkins Child Care and Early Learning Center 

Downtown Baltimore Child Care provides early education and child care to a diverse community. Children of Johns Hopkins University employees receive preferential admission.

Downtown Baltimore Child Care

The Sherman Early Childhood Center offers priority placement for infants to five-year-old children of full-time Johns Hopkins University faculty, staff, and graduate students. Located behind the Weinberg Y on East 33rd Street in Waverly, the center is conveniently located near both the Homewood and East Baltimore campuses.

Preregister your child to join the wait list.

The Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center Child Care Center has 32 spaces for children 2 to 5 years of age. Priority is given to employees of Bayview Medical Center. 

Provides assistance to The Johns Hopkins University and Johns Hopkins Medicine faculty and staff, including emotional support to help you manage stress at work or at home, emotional distress, or a difficult life transition; daily life assistance, such as referrals for child care or elder care; and referrals for legal and financial assistance. This free benefit is confidential and available to you and your household family members 24/7.

All Johns Hopkins Medicine employees and their household family members have free 24/7 access to confidential counseling and referral services for help with caregiving and stress at work or at home, and other challenges.  

Johns Hopkins University:
443-997-7000, Option #2

The Johns Hopkins Hospital, Johns Hopkins Health System Corporation, Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, Johns Hopkins Community Physicians, Johns Hopkins Healthcare, Johns Hopkins Home and Community-Based Services:
443-997-7000, Option #2

Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital, Howard County General Hospital, Sibley Memorial Hospital and Suburban Hospital:
888-482-2733

Full-time Johns Hopkins Medicine employees, fellows, residents, doctoral and medical students have a free premium membership to Care.com, the world’s largest network of caregivers, and household helpers. You can post a job, search and filter the network, or request Expert Assistance to find the eldercare you need, whether your loved one lives nearby or in another state.

Another benefit through Care.com is Backup Care, for when your adult loved one needs assistance, so that you don’t have to take time off from work. You can request in-home backup care for adults, for a ride to and from an appointment, companion care or an extra set of hands after surgery, or when their regular senior care is unavailable.

Full-time Johns Hopkins Medicine employees, fellows, residents, doctoral and medical students are eligible for up to 10 days of discounted back up care each year. Create your account at johnshopkins.care.com using your JHED ID.

Called to Care is a program from Johns Hopkins Bayview that prepares and supports individuals caring for loved ones with health-related needs or limitations.