All in the Harvard family
Do you need some last-minute child care or an after-school sitter? Do you want to get your teenager a regular babysitting gig? Now there’s an alternative to asking around the office for recommendations — or worse, turning to the vast, unfiltered offerings of the Web — thanks to a new Harvard-sponsored website designed to bring together parents and sitters from across the University community. The Web Access to Care at Harvard Portal, or WATCH Portal, developed by the Office of Work/Life and the Office of Faculty Development and Diversity (FD&D), launched Oct. 17. The site, which is only accessible to Harvard PIN holders, allows affiliated parents and potential babysitters to create profiles in the hopes of tapping into the wide pool of potential child-care providers at Harvard. Faculty and staff can even sign up their high school or college-age children to be babysitters, or offer child-care swaps with other employees. “It’s by Harvard,...