Groups
MIT Medical and Community Wellness offer groups focusing on various issues and interests, including support groups and group counseling.
MIT spouses&partners
A support and resource network for the wives, husbands, and significant others of students, staff, and faculty. Build a social network, learn a new language, and locate the resources you need to build a life in Boston.
- Website: MIT spouses&partners
- Contact: Jennifer Recklet Tassi (reck@med.mit.edu), program coordinator
Graduate Mothers Group
New and expectant mothers who are graduate students or postdocs are invited to join the Graduate Mothers Group. Share your stories, seek support, and connect with other graduate moms during monthly lunches.
- Website: gradmoms@mit.edu list
- Contact: Jennifer Recklet Tassi (reck@med.mit.edu) of Community Wellness or Alicia Erwin (aeerwin@mit.edu) of the Student Activities Office.
Group counseling
The Mental Health and Counseling Service offers many different therapy, support, and discussion groups for members of the MIT community.
- Website: Group Counseling
- Contact: 617-253-2916
Custom workshops
Our health experts can design custom educational workshops and health programs for your office, lab, residence hall, fraternity, sorority, or independent living group. To request a workshop, please complete and submit the registration form at least two weeks in advance of your desired program date. We will contact you approximately two business days after you submit your request to confirm workshop details. As a workshop sponsor, you are responsible for all advertising, room reservation and setup, refreshments, and attendance. Workshops are for MIT groups only, and we request that at least ten people attend.
- Request a workshop: Registration form
getfit@mit
An annual 12-week, team-oriented fitness challenge open to the entire MIT community. The goal of getfit@mit is to help make MIT a healthier community by encouraging participants to exercise regularly.
- Website: getfit@mit.
MedLinks (for undergraduates)
A residentially based peer advocacy program. Trained student representatives called MedLinks live among other students and offer private, accessible, one-on-one peer support and referrals for a range of student concerns, including nutrition and fitness, food and body-image issues, sexual health, sexual and relationship violence, substance use and abuse, mental health, stress and sleep issues, and physical ailments. Many MedLinks have also completed CPR training, which allows them to respond to incidents of chest pain, choking, breathing difficulties, and other emergencies.
- Website: MedLinks.
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