<div dir="ltr">Hi everyone,<div><br></div><div style>Find attached (and posted below) the minutes from our meeting tonight. The next meeting will take place on Wednesday, May 8th at 6pm. </div><div style><br></div><div style>
In the meantime, if you would like to get more involved with the Family Subcommittee, or have any comments/suggestions/questions, feel free to email <font color="#000000"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">gsc-hca-family-chair</span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">@<a href="http://mit.edu">mit.edu</a></span></font>. We would really like to hear your feedback on what would be the best ways to alleviate your childcare needs (both long-term and short-term solutions).</div>
<div style><br></div><div style>Best,</div><div style>Anna</div><div style><br></div><div style><br></div><div style>------------------------------------------------------</div><div style><br></div><div style><ol>
<li style="margin:0px;font-size:12px;font-family:Garamond"><span style="letter-spacing:0px">Back-up childcare pilot program</span></li>
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<li style="margin:0px;font-size:12px;font-family:Garamond"><span style="letter-spacing:0px">Our understanding is that Kathy Simons will take care of all the communication with Parents in a Pinch. Anna will email Kathy and confirm.</span></li>
<li style="margin:0px;font-size:12px;font-family:Garamond"><span style="letter-spacing:0px">Advertisement plan</span></li>
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<li style="margin:0px;font-size:12px;font-family:Garamond"><span style="letter-spacing:0px">Before launch: </span></li>
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<li style="margin:0px;font-size:12px;font-family:Garamond"><span style="letter-spacing:0px">Update the family subcommittee’s page on the GSC website, and add a link with a full description of the program. Nathaniel will email Maokai regarding logistics. Emily will do the write-up on the program, and Marzyeh will include a “user-blurb”. </span></li>
<li style="margin:0px;font-size:12px;font-family:Garamond"><span style="letter-spacing:0px">Email dorms, off-campus, Spouses&Partners, FamilyNet, GW@MIT, as soon as we have all the details of the program</span></li>
<li style="margin:0px;font-size:12px;font-family:Garamond"><span style="letter-spacing:0px">The Family Subcommittee to give a presentation at dorm Town Hall meetings, and S&P Wednesday meeting. Emily will coordinate with Tiky regarding Westgate meeting, Anna will contact Jennifer regarding S&P meeting. </span></li>
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<li style="margin:0px;font-size:12px;font-family:Garamond"><span style="letter-spacing:0px">During the pilot: </span></li>
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<li style="margin:0px;font-size:12px;font-family:Garamond"><span style="letter-spacing:0px">Presentation at orientation events: Grad 102, Families 101</span></li>
<li style="margin:0px;font-size:12px;font-family:Garamond"><span style="letter-spacing:0px">Ideas: Posters in dorms, international students’ newcomers guide, a flyer to dorm welcome package, etc.</span></li>
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<li style="margin:0px;font-size:12px;font-family:Garamond"><span style="letter-spacing:0px">Plan on how to gather data during pilot: We need to know what data Parents in a Pinch gather currently and whether the GSC will have access to “raw data”. Anna will email Kathy.</span></li>
<li style="margin:0px;font-size:12px;font-family:Garamond"><span style="letter-spacing:0px">Including undergraduates to the program</span></li>
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<li style="margin:0px;font-size:12px;font-family:Garamond"><span style="letter-spacing:0px">Aalap will email DUE registrar to find out the number of undergrads with families. Once we have that, we can get a quote from Parents in a Pinch to see how much funding we need from the UA or the DUE. Anna will email Kathy to give a heads up that we are looking into this. </span></li>
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<li style="margin:0px;font-size:12px;font-family:Garamond"><span style="letter-spacing:0px">Summary of meeting with Dean Ortiz on Thursday, April 4th</span></li>
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<p style="margin:0px 0px 0px 72px;font-size:12px;font-family:Garamond"><span style="letter-spacing:0px">All our recommendations to EBOC were rejected, which means that grad students will continue to have very limited access to on campus childcare in terms of both availability and affordability of TCC. This means that we should continue to push for the cooperative childcare idea, the MIT coordinated family daycare network, and a need-based childcare grant. We will set-up a meeting with Martin Schmidt to get a sense on how space allocations work at MIT.</span></p>
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<p style="margin:0px;font-size:12px;font-family:Garamond"><span style="letter-spacing:0px">Next meeting will be on Wednesday May 8 at 6pm. Location TBD</span></p><p style="margin:0px;font-size:12px;font-family:Garamond">
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