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 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 Notes

  • Help is provided in the Ann Arbor-area homes of currently employed or enrolled U-M faculty, staff, and students, and for those in their household only. 
  • Most 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 (especially during the school year), or if you are not receiving responses, search Care.comAdditional Child Care OptionsChild Care or Elder Care resources. Also, you could indicate that you're willing to hire two or more helpers to fill your job (e.g. M-F care is not possible for most helpers due to school schedules). 
  • If you live outside of the Ann Arbor area, use Care.comAdditional Child Care OptionsChild Care or Elder Care for local resources.
  • There are fewer job-seeking Family Helpers during spring-summer terms and U-M breaks, and more in fall-winter terms once students settle in.
  • Many Family Helpers do not have cars, and may need to walk, bike, bus, or request a ride.
  • Please read your email daily, as email 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 emails 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 are not eligible to be Family Helpers.
  • The Family Helpers Posting Board is only for eligible, registered and approved Family Helpers, and currently employed or enrolled U-M affiliates. Do not share or forward any information or emails related to Family Helpers to others.
  • Please be thoughtful of the health impact your interactions have in hiring or being a Family Helper.

Please email us with any questions.

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.