Close to Home™

Summa Associates (now Choice4Care®) created the Close to Home™ network. This network allows parents access to a wide network of high quality, convenient, and registered home child cares. Close to Home™ offers working parents quality child care that fits their working schedules of non-traditional hours, extended hours, as well as before- and after-school care plus additional infant and toddler care.

Close to Home™ caregivers are carefully screened and given many opportunities for specialized training.  Additionally, caregivers are supported through resource libraries, mentor support, and frequent home visits.

Close to Home™ is a family child care business initiative, originally created over a decade ago in Arizona, designed to meet parents needs for affordable, quality, family home child care. Close to Home™ has been recognized by the U.S. Department of Labor as a "model program for resolving multiple child care problems".

Close to Home™ can be offered to parents through the support of a group of employers or an individual company and easily expanded to various locations. A sponsoring employer's funds allow Summa (Choice4Care®) to recruit and train home caregivers in the location of the organization, and the surrounding geographic area, that accommodates non-traditional work schedules and extended hours.

Contact your Human Resource Department to see if your employer provides these benefits to you.

If your employer does not offer the Close to Home™  benefit, ask your Human Resource Department to contact contact Summa (Choice4Care®) at 1-800-343-9057  for additional information about our cost-effective programs and the many benefits of being a Close to Home™ client.

If your employer offers Close to Home™ contact Summa (Choice4Care®) at 1-800-343-9057 to Register/Find a Close to Home™ provider near you.