Bright Horizons Partners With #FirstRespondersFirst to Support Healthcare Workers on the Frontlines of the COVID-19 Pandemic

Bright Horizons (NYSE: BFAM), a leading provider of high-quality education and care solutions designed to help employers support employees across life and career stages, partners with #FirstRespondersFirst. Conceived by Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Thrive Global, and the CAA Foundation, #FirstRespondersFirst is an initiative created to provide first responder healthcare workers, ranging from minimum-wage hourly workers in home-care settings to social workers, nurses, physicians, and beyond, with physical and psychological resources they so desperately need as they serve on the frontlines of the COVID-19 pandemic.

As part of its commitment to #FirstRespondersFirst, Bright Horizons is opening child care hubs, providing free high-quality, safe, and nurturing care for the children of first responders, enabling this workforce to have peace-of-mind to focus on their critical jobs. Bright Horizons will operate with special COVID-19 protocols in place, including limited capacity and small group sizes, enhanced teacher-to-child ratios, and intensive hygiene and cleaning practices to protect the health and safety of the children and staff. The centers will be staffed with expertly trained and experienced local Bright Horizons early educators, and available for children ages infants through six-years-old. The partnership launches today in Seattle, Detroit, and Washington, D.C., with additional hubs to open across the U.S. in the coming days.

“For over 30 years, Bright Horizons has been providing high-quality child care to support working families, and there is no doubt in my mind that this is the role Bright Horizons needs to be focusing on right now. It is core to our mission to make a lasting impact on the communities where we live and work, and it is our first responders, and their children, who need us most right now,” said Bright Horizons CEO Stephen Kramer. “I am moved by the generosity of Thrive Global, Harvard Chan School, and CAA and that we have this chance to partner with them and put the talent, devotion, and commitment of the Bright Horizons family to work in service to our first responders at their time of urgent need.”