The Family Helpers Posting Board connects current U-M employees and current U-M students who want to hire a helper in their Ann Arbor area home, to current U-M students (and recent U-M grads) and benefits-eligible U-M retirees who are available to hire for occasional, partial week, or short-term support. Services offered may include child care or babysitting, pet care, tutoring, elder or other adult care, house sitting, and house or yard work. 

Using the Family Helpers Posting Board

Currently registered and enrolled U-M students (and recent grads who are not staff/faculty) or benefits-eligible U-M retirees who are available to hire can:

• Register and post a Family Helper Profile (or edit your existing Profile) and check the Active box while you are actively job-seeking (note: our review of your post and confirmation of your U-M affiliation may take 1-2 business days)
• Following review and approval in 1-2 business days, view and respond to Help Wanted Posts through the system

Currently employed (active) U-M employees or currently registered and enrolled U-M students who want to hire a helper in their home can:

• Create a Help Wanted Post (or edit your existing Help Wanted Post space) and check the Active box while you are actively hiring (note: our review of your post and confirmation of your current U-M affiliation may take 1-2 business days)
• View Family Helper Profiles and inquire with up to a few Family Helpers individually through the system (if you want to reach many potential helpers, creating a Help Wanted Post is preferred, since helpers are notified when a new post is approved)

Important Information for All Users

• The Family Helpers Posting Board is an internal U-M resource for currently-affiliated employees and students only. Help is provided in the Ann Arbor-area homes of current U-M faculty and staff, and registered and enrolled students only, for those in their household only. 
• There are fewer Family Helpers during spring-summer, final exams and U-M breaks, and there are more Family Helpers starting several weeks into the fall-winter terms, as students settle in.
• Nearly all Family Helpers are full-time U-M Ann Arbor students with many obligations. Therefore, if you need more than occasional, partial week, or short-term help, or if you are not receiving responses, consider Additional Child Care Options (including the Sittercity posting site), Child Care or Elder (and other adult) Care resources. Also, you could indicate in your Help Wanted Post that you're willing to hire two or more Family Helpers to fill your job, as most students are not available several days per week or for full days.
• If you live outside of the Ann Arbor area, consider Additional Child Care Options (including the Sittercity posting site), Child Care or Elder (and other adult) Care resources near you.
• Note that our review of your post or profile and confirmation of your U-M affiliation may take 1-2 business days.
• Be sure to check the Active box on your post/profile while you are actively hiring or job-seeking, and uncheck it as soon as you are not.
• Please read your email daily, as messages through the system (which appear in your email) is the only way to communicate initially. 
• Kindly reply to all inquiries promptly.
• Many Family Helpers do not have cars, and may need to walk, bike, request a ride, or bus to you. If applicable, consider including your bus route in your Help Wanted Post.
• We delete any personal/contact details (e.g. last name, phone, email, location details, links) as well as resumes, but you can share information as you wish after initial messages through the system. 
• Rate of pay and other details are negotiated between the hiring U-M employee or student and the Family Helper.
• Posts involving care for unrelated children cannot be approved (e.g. group care, nanny shares).
• Please be thoughtful of the health impact your interactions have in hiring or being a Family Helper.
• Regular U-M staff/faculty members, and alumni from years past, are not eligible to be Family Helpers. 
• The Family Helpers Posting Board is only for eligible, registered and approved Family Helpers' personal use, and current U-M affiliates' personal use. Do not share or forward any information or emails related to Family Helpers to others. Do not use the system in any way on behalf of others.

Please email us with any questions, or for assistance.

Disclaimer

The “Family Helpers Posting Board” acts only as a “posting board” and does not conduct background checks on individuals using the Family Helpers Posting Board. The responsibility for background checks rests solely and completely with all posting board users. The Family Helpers Posting Board is not a U-M program or service, and U-M is not responsible for any postings to the website. The fact that U-M allows for this posting board does not create an employment relationship, nor does U-M act as a guarantor of users or services provided. All users are encouraged to review and comply with applicable State of Michigan Child Care Licensing Rules, and any other applicable law and regulations. Child and Family Care (formerly Work-Life) does not endorse or represent any resources listed as recommended by U-M.