August
Routes and Routes
Daily well-being can start with two simple habits: roots and routes. This month let's focus on nurturing your roots and exploring new routes. Strengthen belonging by nurturing your roots—your people, places, and practices—while taking new routes to connect more deeply. Check out this month's Choose Well Highlight Reel.
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Reel Moments. Real Choices.
This year, we’re excited to launch our Reel Moments. Real Choices. Series. Every month, you’ll hear inspiring stories from our caregivers, and we hope these moments bring encouragement to you and your teams. Feel free to share these stories in your own team meetings.
Back to School Resources
Back-up Care: Family support for a busy school year
Back to school brings Back to school brings new routines, new activities, and more responsibilities your Bright Horizons® benefits give you family support, so you can juggle it all with confidence.
Brightside: New school year, new loan rules — Brightside can help with both
Back-to-school season and expenses go hand in hand — from supplies to electronics to classroom fees. And now that student loan changes are in effect, new plans, payments, and deadlines could impact you too.
Your Brightside Financial Assistant can help you find your best options for all of these, by phone or chat. It’s part of Brightside Financial Care, your free Providence benefit.
How Brightside can help this back-to-school season:
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Find free school supplies — your Financial Assistant can connect you with resources in your area
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Apply for programs to offset the cost of school — meals, childcare, fees, and tech tools
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Get a $100 Cash Advance if you're short on cash before payday — no fees, no balance requirements
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Understand recent student loan changes - including whether you or family members were (or will be) impacted, and your options
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Explore ways to pay education — for you or a family member, including automatic saving from each paycheck with a competitive interest rate
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Lock in a lower student loan interest rate —by enrolling in autopay before September 30, 2026.
Check out the August events:
2027 Health Incentive
It’s not too late, there’s still time to earn your points. To earn 100 percent of your 2027 health incentive, you must reach Level 4 by Nov. 13, 2026.
2026 Health Incentive Appeal Window
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The health incentive appeals window closed on March 31st.
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Reach out to the Benefit Service center if you have any questions regarding your health incentive funding.
