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About the Center

The MIT Center for Work, Family & Personal Life (formerly the Family Resource Center) offers a range of direct services and spearheads projects to enhance the quality of life for the MIT community.

Services are available at no cost to members of the community, including MIT students, staff, and faculty, as well as their partners and families.

Operating within the Institute's Human Resources Department, the Center focuses on the needs and interests of a broad range of constituencies, from the MIT community to professionals in universities, corporations, media, and other organizations worldwide. The Center supports and celebrates the diversity of backgrounds and experiences within the MIT community.

While the Center delivers important services to individuals, our mission goes further. We also focus on the high-level systems and infrastructures that affect the quality of life at MIT, promote best practices in national and international work/life forums, and assist in the development of new policies and services.

Direct services, such as consultations, seminars, a lending library, and materials, are available in the areas of:

Recent projects coordinated by the Center include:

Overseeing MIT's child care initiative, including the design of the new Stata child care center, the reorganization and refurbishment of existing MIT child care centers, and establishment of child care scholarship programs.
Co-leading and staffing the Council on Family and Work, which recently created an innovative new web site for the MIT community, following up on its 2001 Institute-wide survey of quality of life issues and needs.
Developing and managing LifeSites, MIT's first comprehensive human services web portal.
Founding two national organizations: the College and University Work/Family Association and the National Parenting Education Network.
Achieving recognition as a national model in professional publications and conferences.
Coordinating MIT's successful applications as one of Working Mother Magazine's "100 Best Companies for Working Mothers," The Boston Parents' Paper's "Boston's Best Large Employer for Working Parents," and Boston Business Journal's "Best Places to Work."

Our Center also maintains information of interest for retirees, alumni, and others, as well as seminars that are available to the general public. For further information, please visit: