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Faculty and staff may be eligible to use one or all of Harvard’s Emergency/Backup Care benefits. Employees may use these service when they need to be at work and their regular child care is unavailable: When your regular caregiver or stay-at-home spouse is ill or temporarily unavailable, when you are between child care arrangements, when your child’s regular day care center, school or after-school program is closed, to ease transition back into a regular work schedule when returning from leave, to accommodate changes in flexible work arrangements, and other situations where back-up care is required.
Harvard's back-up care program for faculty and staff is composed of three services:
Parents in a Pinch
Just in Time Care

Parents in a Pinch, Inc.
Harvard has contracted with Parents in a Pinch, Inc. (PIAP), to provide emergency/backup in-home back-up care services for child care and adult care.
- Service is available to benefits-eligible faculty, administrative and professional staff, support staff in HUCTW, non-bargaining-unit support staff, and postdoctoral fellows.
- You must pre-register for this service.
- The service dispatches a caregiver to your home; This service allows caregiver to stay with mildly ill children.
- Service is available for children of any age and dependent elders.
- You pay the caregiver ($15 per hour) directly.
- Service is available in greater Boston and in some U.S. cities.
Current Harvard employees may visit HARVie for registration forms.
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Just in Time Care
Just in Time Care is a service designed to help eligible faculty and staff identify and pay back-up caregivers. This program is open to benefits-eligible employees who earn less than $55,000 annualized salary.
- This program is open ONLY to benefits-eligible employees who earn less than $55,000 annualized salary.
- You must enroll for this service.
- Care is provided by the provider of your choice. You can use Just in Time Care funds in conjunction with Harvard’s other back-up services (to pay for services from Parents in a Pinch or from Bright Horizons, described above), other care programs, or for a back-up provider you identify including a friend, neighbor or family member.
- The service reimburses you or pays you caregivers directly up to $250 per eligible employee per year.
Current Harvard employees may visit HARVie to register.
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