We offer a host of helpful tools for families in need of child care, including access to the LOCATE: Child Care resource and referral service, free premium membership to Care.com, backup care, and preferential admission relationships with our child care center partners.
Finding Child Care
Licensed Child Care in Maryland
Child Care Locate Search
The first five years last forever, that’s why the decisions you make about early care and education are crucial. The Maryland Family Network helps parents and caregivers navigate these early years.
The Maryland Family Network’s database includes all Maryland-registered family child care providers and licensed group programs, such as full-day centers, preschool and Head Start programs, public pre-K programs, private kindergartens, school-age programs, summer programs and camps. The Locate Search tool provides direct access to information about all registered and licensed child care programs throughout Maryland, and shows providers with immediate vacancies or potential future openings. Use the filters to find care that fits your budget, location, and schedule, and search for providers who are multi-lingual, support special needs, and accept financial aid.
Search for child care in Maryland
JHU Partner Centers
JHU partners with three high-quality Baltimore-area child care centers that give admission and wait list priority to JHU faculty, staff, and students, and scholarships are available for eligible families to help pay for tuition. We also have relationships with other quality centers that offer wait list priority to Hopkins affiliates.
Care.Com Premium Membership
Caregiving Support is Moving to Bright Horizons on Jan. 1, 2025
Effective January 1, 2025, you will no longer have access to Care.com’s premium membership and backup care through Johns Hopkins University. You will need to register through Bright Horizon’s website, which we will provide at the launch. Learn more
Considering hiring a caregiver to provide child care in your home? Use Care@Work to either identify and hire an in-home provider yourself or use a professional in-home placement agency.
Care.com Premium Membership from Care@Work
Care.com is an online family care platform that connects families with caregivers, including those who provide in-home care. Detailed profiles, references, and background checks are a few of the services Care.com provides to help you find and select the best care available. All full-time JHU faculty and staff get a free premium membership to Care.com’s online platform as part of their benefits package. Care.com also handles JHU’s requests for backup child care and eldercare.
You receive a free premium membership with unlimited access to the Care.com, which is the largest online community for care. (A savings of $145 a year.) With this membership, you can enjoy all the privileges that come with a premium membership:
- Find help for regular and planned care needs for child care, adult and senior care, pet care, housekeeping, and tutoring
- Search detailed profiles that include experience, availability, reviews and ratings
- Post jobs detailing your family’s needs for child, senior, pet, home and more — all care in one place
- Background check options available
- 24/7 access via desktop, mobile web and Care.com App
Quick Tips:
- How to post a job on Care.com or search for a caregiver in your zip code to care for children, adult loved ones, pets, tutors and more
- How to access Care@Work’s safety center for best practices on hiring safely
- Use the keyword “Hopkins” to identify Hopkins-friendly providers
- Click the link below, create your account using your JHED ID, select the type of care you need, then “I want to search on my own,” to post a job or hire local caregiver.
You have an obligation to the IRS and state tax agencies to report wages paid to certain in-home providers. Please review the resources below to understand your responsibilities.
Other In-Home Care
You have an obligation to the IRS and state tax agencies to report wages paid to certain in-home providers. Please review the resources below to understand your responsibilities.
The Nanny Network provides screened, vetted, and committed caregivers to families in the Baltimore, Washington, and Northern Virginia areas. Specialists work with families with full- or part-time, permanent, or temporary needs, including by fulfilling JHU employees’ backup child care and eldercare requests submitted through Care.com. Johns Hopkins University employees get a 20% discount on the retainer fee for a permanent nanny search, or receive a 20% discount on the temporary membership fee.
The Nanny Network
Au Pair in America provides intercultural live-in child care that’s a flexible and enriching experience for the entire family. Johns Hopkins faculty and staff receive a discount of up to $500 off program fees. It is free to apply, free to search for au pairs, and free to set up a consultation with a matching expert or local community counselor.
Au Pair in America Flyer Au Pair in America Website
Cultural Care Au Pair provides live-in care with screened young adults coming from more than 20 countries around the world. JHU employees applying for the first time will have their $75 application fee waived. Eligible employees also receive $500 off the program fee when signing up to host an au pair for 30-plus weeks.
Cultural Care Au Pair Discounts