The NIH values family life. Learn more about the programs available to you and your family!

• Back Up Care Program - offers access to back-up care when you need to be at work and your regular child or adult/elder care is unavailable. Services will be discontinued effective July 31, 2025.​
  
• Child Care Centers – provides space and support services to three licensed childcare centers in Montgomery County.
• Parenting ListServ- request and share information about childcare and parenting issues with other NIH parents.
• Parenting Coach - help navigate the stages of parenthood. Receive guidance on physical, social, mental, and emotional matters, within 48 hours. Email questions to nihparentingcoach@adventisthealthcare.com.
• Lunch and Learn Seminars – cover parenting issues from infancy to the teenager years. Also covers dependent care issues from the emotional impact of caring for an adult dependent to legal issues. Webinars are temporarily suspended. 
  
• Parental Leave - an overview of the resources available to employees for pregnancy, childbirth, adoption, surrogacy, and foster care purposes.
• Nursing Mothers Program – provides prenatal breastfeeding education classes, telephone support with lactation consultants while on maternity leave, return to work consultation, and onsite lactation rooms.
• Child Care Subsidy Program – offers tuition subsidy if your children are enrolled in licensed childcare programs and your total adjusted household income is below a certain amount.​
  
  

Caring for a Sick Child

• Back Up Care Program: Services will be discontinued effective July 31, 2025.​​
  
• NIH Leave Bank
  
• Children Resource & Referral Service
• Sick Leave to Care for Family Member with Serious Health Condition 
• Palliative Care for Children
• Employee Assistance Program –caregiver stress assistance​
  

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​Offers NIH Federal employees access to child and adult/elder back-up care when they need to be at work and their regular care is unavailable. The NIH Community has access to the following back-up care programs:  center-based child care, in-home child care, in-home mildly ill child care, in-home adult/elder care, and self-care.  For more information about this program and how to register, click here.​

The NIH community has free, unlimited access to a Work/life Specialist, who can help you assess your parent/caregiving role and support you by providing a range of resources and referrals for children and adults. This highly personalized professional service is available by calling

1-800-777-1720 between the hours of 9:00 am and 5:00 pm, Monday through Friday. For more information on this program, click here.