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MIT Medical would like you to know about other MIT programs that promote health and wellness for the community:

Nightline
Nightline is a student-staffed, peer-listening service for MIT students. A male and female staffer are available 7 p.m. to 7 a.m. each night of the term to talk about anything on your mind, from eating disorders, suicide, and family problems to restaurant suggestions and sports scores.

For details please visit the Nightline web site. If you're interested in becoming a nightline staff member, please call 617-253-8800 and ask for an interview.

LifeSites
LifeSites provides quick access to hundreds of services, activities, programs, and groups that support members of the MIT community and their families. For more information, please visit the Lifesites web site, stop by the Center for Work, Family and Personal Life in Building 16-151, or call 617-253-1592.

Center for Work, Family and Personal Life
The Center for Work Family and Personal Life provides information on child care, parenting, schooling, and other family-related issues. The Center also sponsors initiatives designed to strengthen and promote activities that support the personal lives of members of the MIT community. For information about upcoming programs, please call 617-253-1592 or e-mail the Center at worklife@mit.edu.

Student Support Services (S3)
MIT's Student Support Services (S3) offers confidential counseling for students, as well as for any member of the MIT community who may be worried about a student. The office also oversees the peer counseling hotline, Nightline (see above), supports under-represented student groups, and advocates for students as part of the Committee on Academic Performance. For more information, please visit the S3 web site, stop by the office in Building 5, Room 104, or call 617-253-4861.

Disabilities Services Office
The Disabilities Services Office (DSO) works with MIT faculty and staff, as well as with external programs and resources, to ensure that students with disabilities have meaningful access to MIT facilities. For more information about DSO, please visit the DSO web site, come by the office in E19-215, or call 617-253-6151.

Fitness Centers
MIT runs two fitness centers for students, employees, and affiliates. Please call for membership information:

Zesiger Sports and Fitness Center ("Z" Center), Cambridge, 617-452-3690

Lexington Fitness Center, 781-981-2003

spouses&partners@mit
MIT's spouses' and partners' network helps the wives, husbands, and partners of MIT students and staff find the friends, language support, health resources, and other guidance they need to settle into life in the Boston area. For more information, visit spouses&partners@mit.edu, or call 617-253-1614.

spouses&partners@mit also sponsors the Language Conversation Exchange (LCE), which finds conversation partners for people interested in practicing another language with a native speaker. Anyone affiliated with MIT is eligible to participate, including students, employees, visiting scientists and scholars, faculty, and family members. Language partners arrange the time, place, and frequency of meetings, typically once a week for an hour.

Aging Successfully
The MIT Women's League sponsors an annual lecture called "Aging Successfully," which focuses on a different topic each year. For this year's topic, please visit the Aging Successfully Lecture web site.

Aging Successfully Lecture

 
Resources

Center for Health Promotion & Wellness
E23-205
617-253-1316
healthed@med.mit.edu
M-F 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Evenings/weekends by appointment


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