Parental Leave Toolkit

The Parental Leave Toolkit helps you feel confident about all aspects of your leave. What’s included?

  • Step-by-step tools for creating hand-off and hand-back plans
  • Guides for important conversations with colleagues and managers
  • Timely reminders and resources for things like finding child care and other important help
  • Links to helpful additional resources including articles, videos, and podcasts from pre/postnatal care experts and other new parents
  • Access to the toolkit via desktop or mobile app

All reminders are tailored to your individual dates of leave and return. Follow our list of tasks – or create your own. The goal is to find the help you need, so you go out feeling ready, come back with confidence, and enjoy this important time with your family.

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Parental Leave Toolkit

Your employer has partnered with Bright Horizons® to help you better manage your many work, family, and personal responsibilities.

In order to support you if parenting is part of your journey, we are offering a Parental Leave Toolkit.

Parental Leave Toolkit

The Parental Leave Toolkit is a unique online resource and app that provides easy to use tools to help you plan your journey to parenthood. This interactive guide enables you to create a custommade, easy-to-follow plan for your leave and return to work and provides support for all aspects of your professional transition. Personalized checklists, videos, and interactive tools provide engaging ways of thinking through options, along with helpful advice from new parents and
coaches.

You can access the Parental Leave Toolkit through your company’s My Bright Horizons site. The Parental Leave Toolkit tile will be posted in the “Services funded by your employer” section of your My Bright Horizons profile.

Once registered, you may opt in to download the Parental Leave Toolkit app, or continue to use through the website directly.

The Parental Leave Toolkit supports expectant and adoptive parents. It provides support when you are planning for leave, already on leave, or have returned to work.

The toolkit includes resources like podcasts, videos, articles and more that support your journey and offer engaging ways to think through parental leave issues and options. Guidance is provided from new parents, coaches, and pre/postnatal care experts. The toolkit also provides personalized plans, checklists, and reminders based around your due date to help keep you on track.

You register on the Parental Leave Toolkit website, which you can access from your My Bright Horizons profile. After you register and create your leave plan, you can access the toolkit via the website or through the mobile app.

No. The Parental Leave Toolkit is a free resource through Bright Horizons Enhanced Family Supports™.