Family Support
What you need to know
Whether you’re thinking of starting a family, growing a family, or caring for elderly parents, balancing work and family responsibilities can take a toll. Goodwin benefits can help you get the support you need to make life easier, wherever you are in your stage of life.
Bright Horizons Family Solutions
Goodwin partners with Bright Horizons to help you get the family support you need including backup family care, priority enrollment, discounted tuition, college coaching, pet care services, and more. Visit Bright Horizons to learn more and register.
Start with the Family Concierge
Bright Horizon’s family concierge provides time-saving personalized guidance and creates a customized plan for family care based on your Bright Horizons benefits. As your needs change, your care plan can be updated.
Benefits Details
- Expert support: 1:1 assistance via chat, phone, email, text, or video to find the right care for your family
- Proactive guidance: personalized outreach, coaching, and help creating job descriptions with appropriate caregiver qualifications
- Personalized resources: curated content, care plans, and webinars that provide the information you need, every step of the way
Ongoing Child Care
Bright Horizons can help you find quality care and get discounts on care.
Benefits Details
- Get preferred enrollment and waived registration fees at most Bright Horizons centers
- Receive discounts on summer day camp at Steve & Kate’s Camp
- Get personalized nanny placement through Jovie, with discounts
- Access before- and after-school programs from Right at School
- Access the Parental Leave Toolkit for online support for employees planning for leave, on leave and when they return to work including personalized plans, checklists, and resources for new and future parents
Back-up Child Care
When regular family care arrangements fall through, Bright Horizons Back-Up Care™ is here to help.
Benefits Details
- 20 days per employee per year (including 10 Return to Work days for new parents)
- Center copay: $15/child/day or $25/family/day
- In-home copay: $6/hour (up to 3 care recipients, minimum of 4 hours, maximum of 10 hours)
- Reservations: Up to 90 days in advance and up until the day care is needed
- App access: Use the back-up care app (App Store | Google Play) with username: GoodwinLaw and password: gpbackup
Support for Elder Caregiving
Dedicated support for elder caregiving:
- Personalized guidance from an experienced Care Coach
- Unlimited online platform for planning and coordinating care
- In-home needs assessments and specialized referrals
- Legal and financial assistance, including free initial consultations and discounted services
- Mobile app to track loved one’s wellbeing, share photos, and more
- Elder assist app designed for a table for seniors to use to communicate with family
Support for Unique Needs
Bright Horizons Special Needs™ benefit offers support for parents of children facing challenges at home or at school, whether learning, emotional, behavioral or developmental. The program offers a secure, interactive platform, as well as informative webinars and helpful resources.
Pet Care
Pets are family, too! Use your Bright Horizons back-up care benefit for pet services such as walkers, sitters, overnight boarding, and more for dogs and cats through Rover.
Tutoring
Bright Horizon’s offers professional tutoring for schoolwork questions through your Bright Horizon’s back-up care benefit to use through Sylvan Learning and Varsity Tutors.
Details
- Assistance in 3,000+ subjects, including math and reading
- Available for learners ages 5+ (including employees)
- Support for K-12, college, graduate school, and professional skills
College Coach
Free, expert guidance for college preparation and admissions:
- One-on-one sessions with admissions and financial aid experts
- Customized college lists, essay reviews, and feedback
- Quick answers via an easy-to-use portal
- Live presentations on college prep and finance topics
- 24/7 Learning Center with videos, tools, and resources
Carrot
Goodwin has partnered with Carrot to provide employees with fertility, family building, perimenopause, menopause, low testosterone, and pregnancy support. For eligible employees, Goodwin offers employer-provided funds for reimbursement of eligible expenses for all paths to parenthood, including eligible adoption and surrogacy, elective cryopreservation. Partners have access to Carrot’s educational resources and support.
Benefits Details
Through Carrot, you’ll get:
- A team of medical experts and specialists available to help you navigate options, costs, and questions
- Help with finding eligible providers, agencies and attorneys near you
- Trusted educational resources
- Personalized guidance, including a free Carrot plan that provides steps to take to get the most of your benefit
Review this brochure for benefit details.
Cleo
Cleo provides you with expert guidance and support for all stages of family life. Learn how it works.
Benefits Details
- Available to all Goodwin partners and employees globally (except Hong Kong)
- Expert guidance on parenting topics like newborn care, childhood development, behavioral issues, childcare options, adolescence, work-life balance, and more
- Inclusive of all paths to parenthood, including adoption, surrogacy, same-sex, and solo parents
Services
- Cleo Considering: Guidance as you explore paths to parenthood.
- Cleo Baby: Support for expecting parents and parents with infants up to age 1.
- Cleo Kids: Support for parents with children ages 1 to 12.
- Cleo Care (U.S. only): Child Care Enrichment Concierge support.
- Cleo Neurodivergence Program: Support for parents of children with learning or behavior differences like Autism, ADHD, or Learning Disabilities.
Wellthy
Goodwin provides you access to Wellthy for care support for you and your family with problems big or small. Wellthy considers all of the variables of care including financial, in-home, housing, legal, and social-emotional needs.
Create an account to get hands-on support from a team of experts, or simply start out by using the many tools within the online Care Dashboard that meet you wherever you are in your caregiving journey.
Benefits Details
Wellthy can help with:
- Aging family members
- Managing a tough diagnosis or chronic health condition
- Mental or behavioral health concerns
- Health care services for veterans
- Financial assistance with bills, insurance, and benefits
- Managing neurodiverse conditions and disabilities
Milk Stork
Milk Stork makes it easy to manage the logistical challenges that come with breastfeeding and traveling, and it’s provided at no cost for Goodwin employees while on business travel. The service provides no-fuss, refrigerated, express shipping or easy toting of breast milk to your baby.
Pump, pack, ship or tote and get your breast milk where it needs to go. The Milk Stork benefit can also be used to transport breast milk for those that have adopted or used a surrogate.
To learn more about how Milk Stork works, check out this video.