Harvard Resources

NEW: Graduate Student Assistance Program (GSAP) with the Wellness Corporation

The Office for Student Affairs sponsors activities and provides information about resources for students with partners and children. Activities have included meetings, trips, potluck get togethers, and speakers. The OSA also operates a listserve for students with families. See below for information on joining the listserve. We welcome your suggestions and comments.

Office for Student Affairs Student and Family Listserve
The purpose of this listserve is to provide an opportunity for students with families to communicate with each other, and to share information about resources and events. Anyone can send a message to the list by emailing: families@hsph.harvard.edu
To be added or removed from the list, write to aeisenma@hsph.harvard.edu

The Harvard Medical Center Office of Work and Family offers:
o Information and referrals on Longwood area child care options
o Information and referrals related to schools for children
o Brown bag lunch series
o Elder care support group and information
Email: Barbara Wolf, Director

The Harvard Student Spouses and Partners Association (HSSPA)
HSSPA sponsors social activities for couples and families.
Web address: http://www.hsspa.harvard.edu
Email: hio_hsspa@harvard.edu

Harvard International Office (HIO)
Information on Boston and Cambridge area schools. Click here for more information.

Breastfeeding/Breastpumping Room
The Office of Work and Family and the Joint Committee on the Status of Women provides a room for breastfeeding or expressing breast milk. This room is located on the ground floor of the Kresge building, G-8W

Welcome to Boston Guide
This guide, available in the Office for Student Affairs, provides information about childcare and schools in the Boston area.

Shattuck International House
For residents of Shattuck House, the parents’ committee encourages social activities for families with children. There is also a playroom for children, maintained by the parents who live at Shattuck.

Other Websites for Resources around Boston

Boston Parents Paper (We are currently on a waiting list to have this delivered to Kresge lobby)
Monthly listings of events in and around Boston

Boston Public Libraries (cards are reciprocal with Cambridge and Brookline libraries)
Lists branches, contact information
All you need is a piece of mail and ID to join
All the Boston Public libraries have free and reduced admission passes to the Children’s Museum, Science Museum, and other places of interest
They also have regularly scheduled story hours for children ages 18 months – 5 years, reading and homework support groups, performers, holiday events, films etc.

The Children’s Museum $1 admission on Friday nights, 5-9pm
617-426-6500

The Museum of Fine Arts is free (voluntary contribution) on Wednesday from 4-9:45pm;
Youth 7-17 years old are free after 3pm on schooldays, and all day on other days

The Museum of Science is free for up to 4 people with Boston Public Library passes

The Boston Globe newspaper
Look under “Cheap Thrills” in the Thursday calendar, the calendar centerfold, and “Family Datebook” in Saturday’s living section
http://www.boston.com/news/globe/living/calendar/

The Children’s Orchard
807 Boylston St. (Route 9) Brookline 617-277-3006
Kids’ clothes, new and (mostly) used but in great condition, plus 2nd hand toys and baby equipment, slings, strollers, etc (#60 bus from Kenmore T station via Brookline Village)

Franklin Park Zoo
Free with Boston Public Library passes if you become a “friend of the library” by paying $5 per year (you can do this only at certain branches, so call first – definitely at the Connolly Branch in Jamaica Plain, on #39 bus at 433 Centre Street (617-522-1960)
Get to the zoo on the #45 bus from Ruggles orange line station, near HSPH.

MBTA web site: schedules and information on subways, buses, boats and ferries

City of Boston
Search this site for information on recreation, youth activities, permits, environmental initiatives, and more

Town of Brookline
All sorts of recreational activities for families, adults, kids, toddlers, teens, including swimming, skating playgroups, baseball, basketball, summer and school vacation camps etc. Open to non-Brookline residents too, with an increased fee.