Back-Up or Occasional Child Care Resources

• Bright Horizons Back-Up Care Program: providing subsidized back-up care resources for eligible UI Health Care staff 
• Handicare, Inc.: Providing back-up care for well children in a center-based setting
• College Sitter Contact
• SitterCity
• Care.Com

Tips for Hiring a Caregiver

General tips for hiring a babysitter or occasional caregiver:

• verywellfamilies: Hiring a Babysitter
• verywellfamilies: Babysitter Checklist

Tips for mildly ill child care:

• healthychildcare.org: When to Keep your Child Home from Child Care

Forms You Can Use When Hiring a Babysitter

• Child and Family Information (pdf)
• Emergency and Medical Treatment Authorization (pdf)
• Permission to Give Medication (pdf)
• Child Care Incident Summary (pdf)
• Description of Mild Illness (pdf)