JSA Travel Fund for Extra Child Care (ExCARE)

The JSA Travel Fund for Extra Child Care (ExCARE) proposes to assist with expenses incurred from the extra child care necessary for young scientist-parents to present JLab-related research to conferences, workshops, collaboration meetings, and to participate in experiments.

• Eligibility:

- Postdocs and faculty who are JLab users

- Post-tenure faculty who are JLab users can apply, but will receive lower priority

- Travel must be associated with the JLab program

- Both men and women are eligible

- Each family can apply multiple times, but only one application per travel.

- No support available from another organization (APS, ...) for the requested travel

• Maximum amount allocated: $400.00 per child per trip

• Eligible cost

Child care costs that are incurred as a result of the parent(s) attending a conference/workshop/collaboration meeting. They will include but are not limited to the following:

- Babysitters: either a copy of a check or a Word document outlining the hours and wage suffice as receipts.

- Additional daycare costs: only expenses beyond those typically incurred.

- Travel expenses for a family member or caregiver to attend the meeting with the parent and child to take care of the child or airfare for a family member to fly to the child's hometown and care for the child while the parent(s) are gone.

• How to apply

Fill the application form and email it to John Arrington (johna@anl.gov).

• ExCARE Committee Members

Patricia Solvignon (chair), University of New Hampshire

John Arrington, Argonne National Laboratory (johna@anl.gov)

Latifa Elouadrhiri, Jefferson Lab (latifa@jlab.org)

Xiaochao Zheng, University of Virginia (xiaochao@jlab.org)

== Important ==

Any change in needs between the time of the application and the awarded travel should be notified to the committee in order to establish if the new needs are still eligible for funding. If actual use of funds differs from those on the application the committee reserves the right to deny the award.

Fund recipients are solely responsible for their choice of child care provider; JSA does not endorse any child care providers.