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Safe at Home Emergency and Backup Care Program

The National Training Center has teamed up with Safe at Home to provide UAW employees with quality in-home care service for employees' emergency needs.

This pilot program (currently only available to employees residing in the Detroit area) is designed to help employees when their regular caregiver is unavailable or a child is too sick to attend day care, allowing the employees to go to work.

Best of all, children will receive this care without having to leave their homes.

Employees are eligible for 80 hours of service each calendar year. If both parents work for DaimlerChrysler and are represented by the UAW they are eligible for 160 hours of service in each calendar year.

The National Training Center pays 80 percent of the cost for this service. Co-payments for care may range from $3.40 to $5.10 per hour, and a four-hour minimum visit by caregivers is required. The provider will bill workers directly for their 20 percent fee.

Caregivers also are carefully screened through driving-record checks, thorough reference checks, yearly physicals, fingerprinting and FBI criminal-history checks. They are trained in CPR, First Aid and have formal training in child development.

For additional information, or to pre-register a child, call Safe at Home at 1.800.790.7233.