Child Care Scholarships

Provided by Harvard University for benefits-eligible faculty, post-doctoral fellows, administrative/professional staff and non-bargaining unit support staff.

Harvard’s Child Care Scholarships provide financial assistance for full or part-time child care for children from infancy up to kindergarten age, and eligible after-school and daytime summer programs for children up to the age of 13 years old.

Complete information is available on HARVie.

• Office of Work/Life Resources: Caring for yourself, relatives, children, and other workplace resources.  (Phone: 617-495-4100, email: worklife@harvard.edu)
  • Child Care @ Harvard: Child care options, back-up emergency care, schools, after-school programs and more
  • Paying for Child Care: Child care scholarships, flexible spending accounts, and just in time care

HSPH & Longwood Medical Area Resources: 

• Harvard Medical Center Office of Work and Family: Support and information for HSPH community members.  164 Longwood Avenue, Room 106, Boston.  (Phone: 617-432-1615, email: barbara_wolf@hms.harvard.edu)
• Office of Human Resources: Resources for HSPH staff
• Office of Faculty Affairs: Resources for HSPH faculty, academic appointees, and postdoctoral fellows
  

Child Care Centers

Longwood Medical Area

Longwood Medical Area Child Care Center (LMACCC)
395 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02215        
Telephone: 617-632-2755      Email: mdumas@masco.harvard.edu       
(HSPH contracts 12 slots with the LMACC.)

Bright Horizons at the Landmark Building
401 Park Drive, Boston, MA 02115
Telephone: 617-450-0790
(HSPH contracts 8 slots with Bright Horizons.) 

Cambridge & Allston (http://www.childcare.harvard.edu/childcare/centers.shtml)

Six non-profit, independent child-care centers are located in University space. Five are on the Cambridge campus and one is in the Allston section of Boston, near the Business School Campus.

Affordable, high-quality child-care is in short supply in the greater Boston area. Affiliation with Harvard University does not guarantee admission to Harvard-affiliated child-care centers. You increase your odds for securing the type of child care you want if you start looking early. It's a good idea to visit and apply to child care centers as much as one year in advance. Family day care and in-home solutions may require less lead time but will require an intensive process of identifying and reviewing your options.