[Gsc-hca-family] Recap of the May GSC Family Subcommittee meeting

[GSC HCA Chair]

All,

I just made the GSC website up-dates:
https://gsc.mit.edu/committees/hca/childcare/
and
https://gsc.mit.edu/committees/hca/childcare/gsc-mit-backup-childcare-program/

Please review.

Best,
Marzyeh Ghassemi
GSC HCA Chair


On Sun, May 12, 2013 at 10:26 PM, Anna Häggman <haggman.anna at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> Please find attached the minutes from our meeting last Wednesday (also
> pasted below). We are thinking of launching a publicity campaign to raise
> awareness of families at MIT sometime next fall. If you are interested in
> designing, planning and launching a publicity campaign or know someone who
> would be, please contact us. We are also looking for a volunteer to serve
> as a family representative in the GSC Orientation Committee, so please be
> in touch if you would be interested.
>
> Cheers,
> Anna
> GSC Family Subcommittee co-chair
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________________
>
> Housing and Community Affairs
> Family Subcommittee Meeting
> Thursday May 8th, 2013
> Meeting Minutes
>
> Present: Anna, Emily, Marzyeh, Remi
>
>
>
> 1.     Back-up childcare pilot program update
>
> a.     Contract still not finalized: Anna will follow-up with Kathy
>
> b.     All MIT students will be included
>
> c.     Advertisement plan
>
>                                                i.     Launch event June
> 15th: Emily and Remi will be in charge of organizing
>
>                                              ii.     GSC website up-date:
> Include the FAQ on the program with specific examples of situations in
> which students can use the service, the infographic, and the link to the
> Work-Life website (once it’s up). Marzyeh will be in charge.
>
>                                             iii.     Infographic in
> multiple languages to post in dorms and distribute via listservs: Anders &
> Anna will work on that after May 20th.
>
>                                             iv.     Work with Orientation
> Committee to get a spot at grad 101: family representative? Need to recruit
> a volunteer to be the family rep in the meetings and planning of family
> events for orientation. Anna will reach out to dorms and off-campus to see
> if anyone is interested.
>
>
>
> 2.     Summary of meeting with Abigail Francis, May 2nd on poster
> campaign to raise awareness of grad families:
>
>                                                i.     During two months,
> 50 people worked on the “You Are Welcome Here” campaign
>
>                                              ii.     We need to recruit
> people to design and launch the campaign. Remi will reach out to people at
> the MediaLab and Architecture Department.
>
>                                             iii.     Need to look into
> the possibility of using ODGE Graduate Community Fellowships to pay for the
> design and planning work.
>
>                                             iv.     A poster campaign or
> a card, or an awareness day/week with events on campus. Ideas are welcomed!
>
>
>
> 3.     Summary of meeting on May 3rd to plan how to approach Marty
> Schmidt regarding coop daycare and other plans for support programs
>
>                                                i.     At this point,
> there will be no Institute wide task force on families, so we should engage
> with Dean Ortiz to set up meetings with key people in various offices. We
> will present our revised report to these people. Marzyeh will contact her
> to set up a meeting.
>
>                                              ii.     We need to revise
> our report and make it look more official, and add a budget and a timeline.
> Anna will work on it starting May 20th.
>
>                                             iii.     After we have a
> “real” report and the support of the above people, then we will schedule a
> meeting with Marty Schmidt
>
>
>   Meeting schedule during the summer: We will continue our monthly
> meetings, the next one being Wednesday June 12th at 6pm in Eastgate.
> There will be no meeting in July, but there will be a meeting in early
> August.
>
>
>
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