Aspen Hill Cooperative Nursery School offers a Parent Helper Program for our members. It is a nursery designed to provide babysitting for the younger, non-enrolled children of co-oping parents while the parents are assisting in the classroom.
Children in the PHP are cared for by a paid caregiver with the help of parents who use the PHP program. Parents pay $25 per day to use the PHP.
Parents using the PHP are scheduled to be a back-up caregiver on a rotating basis. The back-up caregiver assists the paid caregiver in the program that day and is only required to stay when the caregiver feels that assistance is needed. This decision is based on the number of children in the nursery and/or the age and individual needs of the children.