Tracy & Rob Cota

* You need help before and after school, but not during the hours kids are away.
* You need the kind of flexibility that let's you change your schedule week to week.
* You need help shuttling your kids to and from soccer, ballet & more.
* You want your kids to learn another language.
* You need help with kids laundry, meals or an extra set of hands for bathtime, bedtime.
* You want a date night without having to find a babysitter last minute.

If you answered yes to any of the above questions, you may need an au pair. What's an au pair? Au pairs come to the U.S. on J-1 Visas
through a cultural exchange program regulated by the U.S. State Department. Au pairs live in, can work up to 45 hours per week, and
the average cost is $350 per week.

Your next au pair could be:

Svenja from Germany. She has experience with twins. Has watched a 7 and 8 year-old and her younger brother, too. She likes to play sports
and can drive your kids to their sports. She has references here in
the USA.

OR

Mirva from Sweden. She has experience with babies, toddlers and up, has great driving experience, likes ice skating and horseback riding.
She worked temporarily in a kindergarten in Sweden.

OR

Chun Lan Wei (Shirley) from China. She is a tutor, working with kids 7 to 12. She has also worked as a babysitter. She looks forward to
being an au pair in America and can help teach your kids Chinese!

OR

Julie from Colombia. She has been taking care of a 2-year-old girl. Scheduling playdates, cleaning up the toys, managing snow days ad her
family says she is a great help in the household. She can teach your kids Spanish, like she has taught the child in her first host family!

OR

Justine from France. She is a twin, and helped raise her younger brother. Great experience with babies. Warm and fuzzy personality.
She is sporty and athletic and can teach your kids French!

Of course these are only a handful of our au pairs! There are many others to choose from as well!  Many families are currently hosting au pairs. I'm happy to connect
you with families who have hosted - one, two - even three or more au pairs in your area if possible. For more information AND CURRENT DISCOUNTS call Local Childcare Coordinator Tracy
Cota at 310-283-3521 OR email tracy.cota@lcc.culturalcare.com.

If you’ve looked at the cost of summer camp these days, you know that having an au pair offers way more value. Most summer camps are three to six hours a day and cost on average $350 per week per child — at least in Southern California. With an au pair, you can receive up to 10 hours per day of childcare, and that $350 prices stays the same, even if you have 2, 3 or 4 kids. Your kids can go to the beach, enjoy craft hour at library in the comfort of their home. And if you apply this weekend, your family can begin matching at not cost — and save an additional $450 savings. That’s right. If you apply this weekend, you save $525 total!

Benefits of Hosting an Au Pair:
* Childcare coverage for 45 hours a week up to 10 hours a day

* Splits shifts  are A-OK - have your au pair work before and after school

* Weeknight and date-night help made easy - they live in

* Au pairs handle kid’s meals, laundry and clean up

* Program regulated by US State Department for 20 years

* Teach your kids a new language and culture

* They drive - so lessons, play dates and games are no problem!

* Sick days are no problem! They live-in!

Have you figured out who is going to watch the kids when they are out of school and back in the classroom next fall? Now is the time to consider an au pair with Cultural Care Au Pair. If you start matching now, you may be able to line up an au pair for the busy summer and upcoming school year. Au pairs provide live-in childcare — up to 45 hours per week and cost about $350 per week, per family, not per child.

Benefits of an au pair include:

• Flexible schedule that can change weekly

• 45 hours per week

• Help with kids laundry, meals, picking up their rooms

• Teach your kids another language

• Weekend and date night help

We have almost 30 host families in the South Bay with au pairs right now. For more information about how an au pair can work for your family, call Tracy Cota, local childcare coordinator and childcare expert in the Beach Cities at 310-283-3521

Many families are currently hosting au pairs - myself included! I’m happy to connect you with families who have hosted - one, two - even three or more au pairs.

Benefits of hosting an au pair:
* 45 hours per week of childcare
* Average cost is $340 weekly
* Share a new language with your kids
* Flexible hours - change your schedule week to week
* Help with cleaning your kids bedrooms, kids laundry meal prep & more
* Build in time for a date night or weekend coverage

We have a large number of au pairs we are trying to place. Here is a sampling of just a few who are available. Contact me directly to see even more au pairs:

Anna, 20, Sweden
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Viktoria, 23, Ukraine
http://tellus. ef.com/TELLUS/ SCRIPTS/APAPPLIC ATIONS/ACTIVE/ WUE000310% 20PETRUSHA. PDF

Mijin Goo, 24, Korea
http://tellus. ef.com/TELLUS/ SCRIPTS/APAPPLIC ATIONS/ACTIVE/ KRS101516GOO. PDF

To save $700, apply today through, Tuesday, June 22. For more information, contact Local Childcare Coordinator Tracy Cota at 310-283-3521 or tracy.cota@lcc.culturalcare.com.

Tracy Cota
Local Childcare Coordinator
Cultural Care Au Pair
310-283-3521
www.tcota.aupairnews.com

Summer Savings: Apply for FREE

In securing summer childcare needs, families can apply for FREE to start matching with no obligation! Families new to Cultural Care Au Pair who apply using our summer savings promotion code between May 26 and June 30, 2010 are entitled to this savings of $575. This savings includes a $75 application fee waiver, a $350 program fee discount, and free overseas connection plan ($150 value). To qualify, families must welcome an au pair into their home by October 22, 2010 and pay selection of $275 at time of selection.

For more information about this current discount, including our special promotion code, contact:

Tracy Cota, Local Childcare Coordinator for Cultural Care Au Pair at 310-283-3521 or email, tracy.cota@lcc.culturalcare.com.

At Cultural Care Au Pair, our priority is to provide the highest quality experience for our host families and au pairs. Since our program began over 20 years ago, we have found that the feedback provided by our program participants has been instrumental in allowing us to become the largest of the U.S. government-approved au pair sponsors as well as a leader in the au pair program community.

Many of our families embraced sharing their feedback with us through the Customer Satisfaction survey since it was launched in spring of 2008, and their comments, positive or negative, have helped and will continue to help us shape the future of our program and enhance the experience of our participants.

See our detailed survey results and learn more about what families are saying about why they chose Cultural Care Au Pair.

http://www.hostfamilysurvey.com/

If you live in Manhattan Beach, Hermosa Beach or Redondo Beach, ski weeks comes around every year in February. Schools close, and many people head out for a week of vacation. But not everyone can get out of town and hit the slopes in Mammoth Mountain or Big Bear.

What are you doing for childcare during ski week? Have you ever considered hosting an au pair? Au pairs can work up to 45 hours a week, and the cost is $340 weekly, per family. With an au pair, you don’t have to worry about lining up childcare when this week comes around every year, nor do you have line up childcare for spring break, or parent teacher conferences, which follow in the weeks soon thereafter.

Ask me about how the au pair program can help you with your childcare needs for these kind of school closures, while providing a great cultural exchange. Call Tracy Cota, the Local Childcare Coordinator for the South Bay to learn more about how the au pair program can benefit your family.

Tracy Cota - 310-283-3521 or email me at tracy.cota@lcc.culturalcare.com.

At Cultural Care Au Pair and our parent company EF Education First, we believe in connecting people as citizens of the world, and breaking down barriers of language, culture and geography. Never is that mission more important than in a time of crisis.

In order to reach out to the people of Haiti, EF Education First will match up to $100,000 of employee, student and customer donations made through the American Red Cross.

We believe this is our responsibility as a company, as educators and as global citizens. We hope you will join us and other members of the Cultural Care community in our effort to aid the millions of Haitians who need our support.

Together, we can make a difference.

Click here to make a donation:
http://american.redcross.org/efeducationfirst-emp

Care Au Pair host families now have the ability to review even more applications and au pair profiles with our new 3 Ways to Match, a new program feature that let’s host families select the style of matching that best suits their needs. Host families can now search through multiple candidates on their own timeframe, set an appointment for a consultative matching session or work one-on-one with a placement manager who carefully selects possible matches. Best of all, our 3 Ways to Match allows you to enjoy the benefits of all three matching styles to help you find the right au pair for your family.
 
Three ways to match
Whether you’re a new family to Cultural Care Au Pair or have already hosted an au pair, our 3 Ways to Match makes it easy for you to begin reviewing au pair candidates right away. Simply fill out your new or repeat application. Once it’s processed, you can log into your account and begin matching. Here’s how it works:
 
Personalized, exclusive matching
Enjoy the benefits of our trademark one-on-one matching. Your placement manager will select carefully screened applications for you to review based on your family’s unique needs. Each au pair is exclusively reserved for your family’s review, which means no two families are contacting the same reserved au pair candidate at the same time.
 
Consultative matching
Review our pool of au pair candidates in real time by setting up a consultative matching appointment by phone with your placement manager. This highly effective method allows you to carve out time with your placement manager to review available candidates who are not being reviewed by other families. At the end of the appointment, you have the opportunity to have up to three candidates maximum reserved for your family exclusively.
 
Search & Select
An enhancement to our current profile review system, this new feature offers families the ability to build a list of au pair profiles available for review. Families can narrow the search field and request, for example, a driver, a second year au pair or someone available now. If you find a candidate of interest to you, you may add the au pair to your list and notify your placement manager of your interest by clicking the Notify Placement Manager button. Your placement manager will review your matches and place up to three of those matches into your host family account for further review of their full application.
 
Sample & Save - try our 3 “Ways to Match” risk free
Now for a limited time only, host families who apply to Cultural Care Au Pair will have the opportunity to try our 3 Ways to Match FREE. New families who submit an application from January 14, 2010 to January 17, 2010 and take an au pair into their home by October 22, 2010 will have the $75 application fee waived, in addition to our $275 au pair selection. In addition, families applying will also receive a $500 discount off the program fee - a total savings of $850!

There’s never been a better time to begin your search for an au pair. For more information about our 3 Ways to Match or our limited-time-only $850 discount, contact Tracy Cota,  your local childcare coordinator, at 310-283-3521.