The MIT Center for Work, Family, and Personal Life offers information on work/life issues including child care, children's schooling, and parenting. The center's comprehensive website offers listings and guidance on child care programs, babysitters, schools, summer camps, and other local resources for parents and children. Child care costs are higher in Boston than in many other cities and space is limited; plan to begin your search early and to contact the center by phone or email for additional assistance or an individual consultation.
The center also offers resources on child development, balancing work and family, relocation to MIT, raising bilingual children, and many other issues. Individual consultations are available by appointment. The center offers a number of workshops, briefings, and discussion groups, and maintains databases and a lending library. The office is located in Room 16-151, 617-253-1592, worklife@mit.edu, http://hrweb.mit.edu/worklife/index.html.
MIT's child care network, Technology Children's Centers (TCC), provides year-round educational care to children from two months of age through kindergarten entry (approximately six years of age). TCC includes three sites on campus, and a fourth site near Lincoln Laboratory in Lexington, MA, approximately 10 miles west of campus. TCC's campus centers, located at Eastgate, Stata, and Westgate, serve approximately 130 children; TCC at Lincoln Laboratory (LINC) serves an additional 110 children.
TCC offers priority enrollment to members of the MIT community. Please be advised that there are long waiting lists for children in all age groups, and particularly for infants and toddlers. TCC is managed by the MIT Center for Work, Family, and Personal Life, in partnership with Bright Horizons/Family Solutions, a child care management company.
Information about services, tuition, and financial aid, and application forms are available at http://web.mit.edu/mitchildcare/.
The MIT Day Camp is operated by the Athletic Department on weekdays from 9 am to 3:40 pm from late June through mid-August for children ages 6 to 13 1/2. An early drop-off starting at 8 am is available, and an extended sitting service is available until 5:30 pm. The eight-week program is divided into sessions, so that a child may be enrolled for a few weeks or for the entire summer.
Enrollment is limited. Visit http://web.mit.edu/daycamp/, or call the Day Camp Office at 617-253-2913 for additional information.