Family Helpers Posting Board

The Family Helpers Posting Board connects currently enrolled U-M students, recent U-M graduates, and benefits-eligible U-M retirees who are available to hire for occasional, partial week, part-time, or short-term support, to currently employed or enrolled U-M employees and students who wish to hire in their Ann Arbor area home. Services offered may include child care or babysitting, personal care (PCA support), elder and other adult care, pet care, tutoring, house sitting, and house or yard work. 

Using the Family Helpers Posting Board

Currently enrolled U-M students, recent U-M graduates, and benefits-eligible U-M retirees who are available for hire can:

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

Important information for your review

  • Help is provided in the Ann Arbor-area homes of currently employed or enrolled U-M faculty, staff, and students only, and for those in their household only. The Family Helpers Posting Board is an internal U-M resource.
  • There are fewer job-seeking Family Helpers during the spring-summer months (May through September), final exams, and U-M breaks, and more 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 school-related obligations. Therefore, if you need more than part week or occasional help, or if you are not receiving responses, consider other resources such as Kids Kare at Home, Care.com, Sittercity.com, Additional Child Care Options, Child Care or Elder Care. In addition, you could indicate that you're willing to hire two or more Family Helpers to fill your job, as many students are not available to work every day or several days weekly. 
  • If you live outside of the Ann Arbor area, consider Kids Kare at Home, Care.com, Sittercity.com, Additional Child Care Options, Child Care or Elder Care instead, for nearby resources.
  • Many Family Helpers do not have cars, and may need to walk, bike, bus, or request a ride.
  • Please read your email daily, as messages through the Family Helpers system is the only way to communicate initially.
  • We automatically delete any personal or contact information in Profiles and Help Wanted Posts (e.g. last name, phone, email, apps), 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, pods).
  • Faculty and staff 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 currently employed or enrolled 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 be thoughtful of the health impact your interactions have in hiring or being a Family Helper.

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 the Work-Life Resource Center) does not endorse or represent any resources listed as recommended by U-M.