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Office of Work/Life Resources
1350 Massachusetts Avenue, Suite 635
Cambridge, MA 02138
Phone: 617-495-4100
Email: worklife@harvard.edu

Harvard Medical Center Office of Work and Family
164 Longwood Avenue,
Room 106
Boston, MA 02115
Phone: 617-432-1615
Email: Barbara_Wolf@hms.harvard.edu

Discover resources for childcare @ Harvard

When you come to work each day, you don’t stop being a parent, or the child of a dependent relative. Harvard offers an array of resources to make that balancing act a bit easier. Are you a nursing mom? Are you looking for daycare or an after-school program? Do you have a backup plan if you dad’s home-care falls through? Harvard's Office of Work/Life Resources or its Employee Assistance Program (EAP) may have a service that suits your needs.

Harvard’s Office of Work/Life Resources also offers help in finding childcare. There are six Harvard-affiliated childcare centers in Cambridge and Boston. Each center is independently operated and manages its own enrollment. Harvard employees may apply for financial assistance for child care through several scholarship programs. Employees may also set up a dependent-care flexible spending account (FSA), which allows them to put money aside on a pre-tax basis to cover the expense of caring for a dependent child or adult.

Harvard’s Office of Work/Life Resources also provides information on local school districts, after school programs, summer camps, and school vacation programs. If you are adopting a child, Harvard provides some adoption resources.

When your regular care for a child or elderly relative is unavailable – a child is mildly ill, a caregiver is absent, a facility is closed – you may be eligible to request an in-home caregiver through Harvard’s Emergency/Back-Up Care benefit.

Harvard offers multiple lactation rooms to nursing mothers who are Harvard affiliates. Lactation rooms can be found in the following locations:

1. Holyoke Center. Please click here for registration & use instructions (including exact location).
2. Harvard Business School
   • There are three lactation rooms at HBS.
   • For information regarding the two lactation rooms on the main campus, please contact Cathy Francisco, HBS Operations, 495-6814.
   • For information regarding the lactation room on the extended campus, please contact Sadia Jiminian, HBS Human Resources, 495-6944.
3. HMS/HSPH/HSDM Breastfeeding Rooms are private, comfortable spaces available to all Longwood area women to use for breastfeeding or expressing breast milk. For more information, see http://www.hms.harvard.edu/hr/owf_breastfeeding.html.

Other Lactation rooms are in the progress of being opened officially across campus. We will continue to update this page as more information becomes available.

The Harvard Adoption Assistance Plan helps eligible University employees defray the cost of adoption. Adoption assistance of up to $5000 will be granted on a needs-blind basis for expenses directly related to the legal adoption of a child, excluding the adoption of the child of an employee’s spouse or domestic partner.