Bright Horizons Enhanced Family Supports

Beginning July 1, 2025, MIT benefits-eligible staff, faculty, and postdocs will have access to savings on a number of family and education support services.

Current offerings provided under Bright Horizons Enhanced Family Supports are subject to change.

Sittercity: A free, premium Sittercity membership will help you find babysitters, housekeepers, pet care, and more—and includes unlimited basic background checks at no cost.

Jovie: Jovie works with families to provide screened and trained full- or part-time nannies and regular or on-demand babysitters.

Preferred Enrollment at Bright Horizons Child Care Centers: Gain access to available full-time child care spaces in Bright Horizons centers ahead of the general community.

Child Care Tuition Discounts: Various tuition discounts are available at participating centers in Bright Horizons’ partner network (excluding Bright Horizons centers).

Steve & Kate’s Camp: Steve & Kate’s Camp includes summer and school break camps—with locations across the country—that operate around your needs, where kids take chances and shape their experience, choosing from a number of creative, active, enriching, and fun activities each day.

Revolution Prep: Revolution Prep offers premium academic support and test preparation for students in grades K-12, including personalized tutoring with a curriculum tailored to each child’s needs and interests and step-by-step test preparation with a full-time, highly trained tutor.

Varsity Tutors: Varsity Tutors offers virtual tutoring in one-on-one and small group formats on more than 3,000 subjects. In addition, you can access hundreds of enriching online classes, camps, and extracurriculars for children ages 5-18, as well as online learning tools including instant homework help, adaptive testing, and learning labs.

Sylvan Learning: Sylvan offers in-person and virtual tutoring and test prep for students in grades K-12, designed around a child’s strengths and needs, and aligned with state standards.

MarcoPolo World School: MarcoPolo World School is a learning app featuring award-winning STEAM and literacy content designed by early education specialists. The app includes over 500 premium video lessons and 3,000 interactive learning activities.

Little Passports: Little Passports is a service that provides globally inspired, art and science activities and stories. Kids will build and foster independence and curiosity through hands-on adventures that encourage exploration.

codeSpark: codeSpark is a learn-to-code app—full of engaging skill-building opportunities—that teaches children the basics of computer programming.

NAPS: NAPS provides families with resources to navigate through the stages of pregnancy and early parenting through personalized support by trained medical professionals. Their services include live and on-demand courses and webinars, parenting support groups, "Ask a Nurse," and expert-led consultations (breastfeeding, sleep).

BabySparks: BabySparks is an app offering thousands of activities for parents to do with their children ages 0-3 and includes resources to track childhood milestones.


These offerings will be available to benefits-eligible employees beginning July 1, 2025.

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