Child Care

Helping Families Find Child Care

Do you need help finding quality child care? Do you need guidance in identifying a program that fits your child’s needs and your family’s schedule? The Work/Life Resource Center can help provide information that is tailored to your family’s specific needs.

Call WLRC and ask for the Child Care Referral Service - 734-936-8677.

Or use our web-based referral service, available 24 hours a day.

Child Care Referral Specialists are available Monday through Friday by appointment for telephone or in-person consultations with U-M families. For child care referrals, key information is gathered regarding your child’s needs: age of child(ren), hours and days, desired location of care, type of care (centers, homes, before/after school, etc). Then, our specialists do a customized search using a regularly updated child care referral database containing licensed child care programs to match your needs. You will then receive customized provider profiles via e-mail or mail.

The Work/Life Resource Center's child care referral specialists are trained and staffed through Child Care Network (CCN), also known as the Washtenaw Regional 4C. Child Care Network is celebrating their recent certification as a Quality Assured Program through the Child Care Aware® Consumer Education Quality Assurance Program.

Conference/Event Child Care

If your department/organization is hosting anevent for which child care is required, please consider the following:

  • If the parents will be in the same building as the children:
    You may wish to set up a child care room.  Due to liability issues, the Work/Life Resource Center cannot provide this service for you.  The department/organization is responsible for the set-up and staffing of such a room.  We do, however, have resources for finding students or nannies who may be interested in providing care. In addition, our Kids Kare at Home vendor, Safe at Home, may be able to assist you in either staffing a child care room. Please call them directly at (800)790-7233.

    Note: Unless the parent will be in the same building as the children, it is illegal to set up even a temporary child care situation without having the facility licensed for child care.
  • If the parents will NOT be in the same building as the children:
    Our Child Care Referral Specialist will be happy to assist the parents individually by providing them with a list of customized referrals to licensed child care programs. Referrals are prepared based on possible openings on the day of the event as well as parent preferences for type of setting (center/home), geographic location/proximity to campus, etc. in finding drop-in care for the day of the event.  Please have the parents contact the Work/Life Resource Center directly at 734-936-8677.

The Child Care Aware® Consumer Education Quality Assurance Program is designed to ensure that families across the country have access to consistent, high quality services that support them in making informed child care choices.  Child Care Aware Quality Assured

For additional information, check the links below or call WLRC at 734-936-8677 to schedule an appointment.

We would like to wish you the best of luck during labor and delivery—and happy parenting!