All parents know that back-to-school season brings busier days—from early morning carpools and late nights helping with homework to extra school supply runs and doctor’s office visits. Lighten your load this back-to-school season with Rockwell benefits for you and your family.
1. Manage Your Care Needs More Easily
When life throws you a curveball, you need a back-up plan you can count on—and that’s where Bright Horizons can help. Through Bright Horizons Back-Up Care, you can access up to two weeks of back-up care for your children and elderly loved ones. Bright Horizons has both in-home and center-based care options available, so you can choose what works best for you.
Are your weeknights bogging you down? Bright Horizons offers discounts on virtual tutoring and homework help, too, so you can free up your schedule for more family time.
To learn more and get the back-up support you need, visit clients.brighthorizons.com/rockwell.
2. Get 24/7 Access to Parenting and Family Support
Parenting problems don’t have a set schedule. Luckily, you can access 24/7 support with the ComPsych Employee Assistance Program (EAP). The EAP offers eight free counseling sessions per year to both you and your household members for free, confidential assistance to help you through many of life’s challenges—both big and small—including:
- Managing difficult back-to-school transitions
- Supporting a child through trouble at school
- Adjusting to an empty nest when a child leaves for college
- Dealing with grief or loss
- Navigating co-parenting challenges
- Budgeting for school-year expenses
- And so much more
To learn more or talk with a counselor, visit guidanceresources.com/groWeb/login/login.xhtml (code: automation).
3. Stay Healthy and Spend Less on Preventive Care
On average, school-age children and adolescents experience 5–6 illnesses each year.1 Save yourself an extra trip to the doctor’s office this school year by staying on top of your and your family’s preventive care.
All Rockwell Automation medical plan options cover 100% of in-network preventive care services without having to meet your deductible—which means you save money and stay healthier. Covered preventive care services include:
- Annual physicals and well-child visits
- Flu shots and other routine vaccinations
- Vision and hearing checks
- Cancer screenings
See page 9 in the 2026 Benefits Guide for more information about your medical plan coverage. You can also call the number on the back of your medical plan ID card to find an in-network Primary Care Provider (PCP) near you.
4. Save on Your Kids’ Vision Care Expenses
Kids come with many unexpected costs, and buying new glasses or contact lenses each year is one of them. That’s why Rockwell provides coverage for annual eye exams, frames, lenses, and contacts.
If you’re enrolled in the UnitedHealthcare (UHC) Vision Plan, you’ll pay just a $20 copay for most in-network eye-care services every 12 months (every 24 months for new frames). And if you have a tax-advantaged account—including a Health Savings Account (HSA), Health Care Flexible Spending Account (HCFSA), or Limited Purpose Flexible Spending Account (LPFSA)—you can use those funds to cover qualified vision expenses.
If you’re not enrolled in the vision plan, you and your family can still use the MetLife VisionAccess Discount program to get discounted prices on eye exams, lenses, frames, nonprescription sunglasses, and laser vision correction—at no cost to you.
See page 19 in the 2026 Benefits Guide to learn more about your vision coverage.
5. Earn Money Toward Your Continuing Education
Back-to-school season isn’t just for your kids; Rockwell offers tuition reimbursements for your continuing education, too. Through the Educational Assistance program, you can receive up to $12,000 to support your future and lifelong learning goals.
To learn more, see the Educational Assistance policy by visiting the Epoch intranet > Policies & Procedures.
1 According to the Children’s Hospital of Orange County (CHOC)
