The Children’s Center is a unique place created specifically for Travelers employees and their families. It's a cooperative effort between Travelers and Children's Home Society and Family Services.

Travelers provides the resources to support the child care facility and maintains the philosophy that helping employees balance work/family needs is an important part of business. In return, Children's Home Society and Family Services takes great care to tailor the center's services for Travelers employees. It strives to match the look and feel of Travelers, embracing its diversity philosophy, mirroring its professionalism and high standards, and making employees and their families feel welcome.

Meeting work and family needs

When Travelers began planning an addition to its complex in 1987, management wanted to build a complex that would meet the changing work and family needs of its diverse work force.

Travelers' employee research on child care showed that employees had more than 1,000 children ages 10 and younger. Within that group, 75 percent of the children were being cared for by someone other than a parent or a partner. This fact, combined with the growing number of double-income families, confirmed for management that its employees could support an on-site facility.

In September 1991, Travelers opened an on-site child care center for its employees. Called The Children's Center at Travelers, the facility was part of the company's $70 million addition to its complex. The center was the first urban-based corporate child-care center in Saint Paul.

Travelers funded the construction of the child care center and own the building. The center was designed by Kohn Pederson Fox.

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