Bright Horizons Child, Adult, and Elder Care Benefit

91PORN has partnered with Bright Horizons to help employees better manage work, family, and personal responsibilities. There are two programs available to eligible employees:

  • Back-Up Child, Adult, and Elder Care
  • Enhanced Family Supports

Who is Eligible? Permanent faculty, staff, graduate students on an active appointment, and CU System Administration staff.

Back-Up Child, Adult, and Elder Care

Eligible Employees have 10 uses per calendar year for back-up child, adult, and elder care.

What is a use?

  • Drop-in center care: 1 day, no matter the number of hours
  • In-home care: up to 10 hours
  • 4-hour block of online tutoring (have 90 days to use the block of hours)ĚýĚýĚý

Employees are responsible for a copay, paid at the time of care via the portal:

  • In-center copay: $15/child or $25/family (2+ children) per use
  • In-home copay: $6/hour (4 hour minimum per use)
  • Tutoring copay: $15 per 4 hours

Enhanced Family Supports

In addition to back-up child, adult, and elder care, the Enhanced Family Supports program through Bright Horizons will continue. This includes:

  • Sittercity membership: Access to a nationwide network of caregivers with profiles.
  • Years Ahead membership: Understand and find the right level of care for their aging loved ones.
  • Preferred enrollment status at community-accepting Bright Horizons child care centers.
  • Tuition discounts at participating partner centers nationwide.
  • Tutoring and camp discounts at participating partner centers nationwide.

​How it Works

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If you previously created an account through the existing Bright Horizons benefit, you will need to create a new account to take advantage of the expanded benefits going forward.

  1. Visit the Ěýand create an account using your employee ID (if you do not know your Employee ID, you can look it up in MyCUInfo).Ěý
  2. Create your care profile:
    • Employee profile: Provide your relevant contact and employment information.
    • Care recipients: Enter your relationship, care location(s), and health information, and download/complete any required care forms.
    • Authorized contacts: Add any adults (e.g., spouse/partner, grandparent, friend) as emergency contacts and/or individuals who are authorized to pick up care recipients.
    • Care locations: You can choose locations near your home and/or along your work route.
  3. When ready, make a reservation for care.

General Back-Up Care Frequently Asked Questions

Bright Horizons Back-Up Care can be used anytime you need to be at work, but your family member needs assistance or support.

Examples of when you can use back-up child care include:

  • Your child’s school or center is closed.
  • You have a change in your work schedule and need in-home child care for evening and weekend hours.
  • You are in between child care arrangements.
  • Your regular caregiver is unavailable.

Examples of when you can use back-up adult and elder care include:

  • Your parent’s regular in-home care provider is unavailable.
  • Your grandparents live out of state and need assistance.
  • Your parents live with your sister…and your sister has a temporary conflict and is unable to care for them.
  • Your mother-in-law is in the hospital and you would like someone to be with her for support.
  • Your spouse or partner (or other adult family member) is recovering from an injury or surgery and needs assistance.
  • You are recuperating from an injury or surgery and need assistance for yourself.

Care in high-quality centers for well children, screened in-home caregivers for children, and in-home adult and elder care is available. Care recipients may include infants, toddlers, preschoolers, school-age children, teens, and adult and elderly family members.

The benefit gives you access to a nationwide network of high-quality, licensed child care centers, including hundreds of accredited Bright Horizons child care centers across the United States. Chances are high that there are options near your home and your work site. In addition, we have partnerships with 650 in-home care agencies that employ a total of nearly 200,000 experienced caregivers who travel up to 35 miles to provide care in your home or the home of your relative. Care options depend on the availability of these network providers in your area. While care is not guaranteed, Bright Horizons will make every effort to accommodate your reservation request.

Any adult or elder relative for whom you have care responsibilities is covered. This could be a parent, grandparent, spouse or domestic partner, in-law, adult child, etc.

For center care, age limits will vary by location. Most centers can serve children from 6 weeks to 6 years of age; some serve children through age 12. For in-home care, there is no age limit.

Any applicable copayments are collected by Bright Horizons. Visit https://clients.brighthorizons.com/cuĚýand select “Use It” on the Reserve Back-Up Care tile prior to making a care reservation to learn more about your employer’s specific copay policy and collection method.

If there are copays, they must be paid with a standard payment method. Often, copays may be reimbursable through your FSA program (subject to the terms of your employer’s FSA provider). In order to get reimbursed, you must submit the proper paperwork to your FSA vendor.