Student Parent Programs
428 Student Union
413-545-0865

The programs and services provide UMass families with support, education, and resources, not only to meet those challenges, but to succeed. Their website provides a snapshot of the family support programs and services available both on the UMass Amherst campus and in the greater Amherst area.

Childcare Assistance GSS.

919 Campus Center                                           
413-545-2897

Graduate Student Senate (GSS) provides Child Care Assistance to help parents pay for the cost of childcare through a voucher program. If you are a graduate student with one or more children of up to 12 years of age, you are eligible to apply to the GSS Child Care Assistance Program.

Childcare Assistance: GEO
201 Student Union
413-545-0705

Graduate Employee Organization (GEO) offers childcare funding through the GEO contract. The University provides a subsidy to the University Child Care (UCC) flexcare classroom so that graduate students and others in need of part-time (6-30 hrs/week) care pay a lower-rate according to a needs-based sliding-fee.

Women, Infants and Children (WIC) 

Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program (SNAP)

Not Bread Alone
165 Main St., Amherst, MA. First Congressional Church
413-548-1271

Not Bread Alone is a community program serving free food. They serve on Wednesdays, Saturdays, Sundays, and US major holidays. Not Bread alone is one of a broad range of social services provided by the Center for Human Development (CHD), which serves Western Massachusetts and Connecticut.