Finding Group and Family Child Care

Finding high-quality, affordable child care can be a challenge in the Cambridge and Boston areas.

For an overview of child care options, click here.

The following resources can help with your search:

• Harvard Affiliated Child Care Centers

• If you are a Harvard employee, you may use the dependant-care resource and referral service available through Harvard’s Employee Assistance Program (EAP).
• If you are a benefits-eligible employee of Harvard, your child may receive preferential admittance over members of the community for enrollment in full-time and part-time child care and early education programs in the Bright Horizons Family Centers that participate in this network. Learn more. . .
• For lists of licensed family day care providers and group child care centers in your community, visit the Massachusetts Department of Early Education and Care and use the "finder" function in the bottom right navigation bar.
• For Cambridge, Arlington, Belmont, Needham, Newton, Somerville, Watertown, Wellesley, and Weston, visit the Child Care Resource Center. Use CCRC's online form to locate available care, or call 617-547-1063, ext. 72.
• For Boston, Chelsea, Brookline, Revere and Winthrop, visit Child Care Choices of Boston. Services are available in five languages. Search for child care providers by zip code, or call 617-542-5437.
• Exchange child care information with others in the Harvard community. Check out Harvard's child care bulletin board. (Please note that the board is public and searchable.)
• If you still have questions, contact Harvard’s Office of Work/Life Resources at WorkLife@harvard.edu or 617-495-4100.