REFS Programs
http://web.mit.edu/mediation/refsprogram.html
REFS Programs (Resources to Ease Friction and Stress) are department-based, graduate student run, peer support programs.
REFS provide low barrier, informal, confidential services to their peers to support, encourage, defuse, and informally mediate during times of uncertainty, stress or conflict. REFS can provide information about appropriate resources and make informed referrals. Issues addressed can range anywhere from lab-partners to advisors to personal issues.
Currently there are REFS programs in:
- Biology: http://web.mit.edu/biology/refs/
- Chemistry: http://web.mit.edu/chemistry/refs/
- EECS: http://projects.csail.mit.edu/eecsrefs/
- HST
- Mechanical Engineering
- Physics: http://web.mit.edu/physics/refs/
