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Western Sprgs, IL - Host Family at a Glance
50-something family, primarily American, living in United States. Family speaks English. Looking for a female or male Au Pair or Nanny. Our aupair will need to have a driver's license. Light housekeeping is required, and we will not accept an aupair that smokes.
Customer Since 07/28/2006	Last Activity 12/04/2008	Profile added to 6 Hot Lists in last 30 days	Auto-Responses 30 Due
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City	Western Sprgs
State/Province	IL
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Country	United States

Family Preferences and Availability
Seeking to hire	Au Pair or Nanny
Prefers an Au Pair or nanny gender of	No Preference
Au Pair or nanny must be able to speak	English
Prefers an Au Pair or nanny in the age range	No Preference
Prefers an Au Pair or nanny of the nationality	No preference
Years of education required	No preference
Years of childcare experience required	No Preference
This position is	Part-time
Required hours of work by Au Pair or nanny	25 to 30 hours/week
We require the Au Pair or nanny to live in/out	Either
A car is available for Au Pair or nanny's use	Yes
We expect to pay a weekly salary in the range	$101 - $200
Light housework required of Au Pair or nanny	Yes
Languages spoken by our family	English
Our religion/spiritual practice is	Presbyterian
We require care for children under age 2	No
Number of children	1
Children's ages	20
We have children with special needs	Yes
Elderly care is required	No
Disabled persons care is required	No
We have pets	Yes
Our family falls in the age group	50-something
Single parent family	No
Au Pair couples accepted	No
Earliest starting date Au Pair or nanny required	January, 2009
Latest starting date Au Pair or nanny required	January, 2009
Shortest period Au Pair or nanny is required	5 months
Longest period Au Pair or nanny is required	24 months
Family references available upon request	Yes

Au Pair/Nanny job description

We are looking for a live out personal assistant to help our 19 year old mentally handicapped son after school Mondays, Thursdays and Fridays. Exact hours would depend on other activities that week. We will also need someone for more hours in the summer. This is an ideal job for a student whose classes are not too late in the afternoon. Don't let his age scare you, he is only 5'5 and weighs about 120 pounds and is very good natured and definitely looks much younger. He is very loving and non-aggressive. We can provide references from our previous aupairs who all fell in love with him and would obviously provide more information about his handicaps. The job would entail, helping him with jobs around the house, self-help skills, sports skills, reading, music, etc. as well as driving him to outside activities. We also have a tandem bicycle he loves riding.

Family's Message to Au Pairs and Nannies

Hello prospective aupair or nanny: You will find us a welcoming family. We have had aupairs through the Aupaircare program for 16 years and would still have one now, but the official US Aupair program will not place aupairs with a child over 18. The aupair program has been a wonderful program and we have a large extended family of former aupairs. In fact we just returned from a trip to Europe where we visited four former aupairs. We have had a wonderful American live-in student this summer, and also have had a great after school student for the past school year whose schedule still allows him to help with our son this fall so we don't need someone until January 09. In summer 09 we will need someone who is available for more hours. We would be happy to house someone on a F-1 visa, but unfortunatly can't help anyone obtain a J-1 visa since the Aupair programs won't make an exception to the age rule. PLEASE don't contact us if you need a J-1 cultural exchange visa. Looking forward to hearing from you soon.