Wellness Resources

How to reach them

• Web: Child and Family Care

• Address: 1000 Victors Way

• Phone: 734.936.8677 (general inquiries) or 734.763.9379 (resource information)

• Email:  CFCResources@umich.edu 

About Child and Family Care

[Formerly known as the Work-Life Resource Center]

Child and Family Care provides resources to support your personal life while maintaining your professional responsibilities. Resources include:

• Child care resources, such as a database of licensed child care centers and homes, backup child care resources, and care centers on campus

• Elder care resources

• Family helpers posting board

• A list of lactation rooms and lactation resources

How to reach them

• Web: ecrt.umich.edu 

  • pear.umich.edu (Sexual & Gender-Based Misconduct Resources) 

  • disability.umich.edu (Disability & Equity Resources)

  • ecrt.umich.edu/get-hel-support/sexual-gender-based-misconduct/ (Title IX Resources) 

  • ecrt.umich.edu/get-help-support/civil-rights-discrimination/ (Civil Rights Resources) 

• Address: 1009 Greene St.

• Phone: 734.763.0235

• Email:  ecrtoffice@umich.edu 

  • pearoffice@umich.edu  (Sexual & Gender-Based Misconduct Resources) 

  • disabilityequity@umich.edu (Disability & Equity Resources)

  • ecrtoffice@umich.edu (Title IX & Civil Rights Resources)

About ECRT

The University of Michigan’s Equity, Civil Rights, and Title IX (ECRT) Office provides support, resources and education to promote a safe and non-discriminatory living, learning, and working environment for all members of the university community in compliance with state and federal laws and regulations. 

• ECRT is responsible for addressing allegations of discrimination, harassment, and misconduct within the U-M community in compliance with federal and state nondiscrimination laws. Reporting concerns helps ensure individuals affected by harm are offered timely support, care, and access to institutional resources. 

• ECRT is a reporting resource and addresses concerns that fall within the University’s Sexual and Gender-Based Misconduct Policy, Pregnancy & Parenting Policy, and Discrimination & Harassment Policies. The prohibited conduct under these policies include discrimination and discriminatory harassment on the basis of race, color, national origin, age, marital status, disability, religion, height, weight, veteran status, and sexual and gender-based misconduct (misconduct on the basis of sex, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression). Learn more about your reporting responsibilities as a U-M employee.

• ECRT provides supportive resources for faculty, staff, and students to support diversity, inclusion, equal access, and equitable treatment in University programs. This includes requestable training offerings on the Sexual and Gender-Based Misconduct Policy, sexual and gender-based misconduct prevention workshops, consultation and resource development (from the PEAR office, see below), as well as discrimination and harassment trainings (from the Civil Rights office) and ADA basics, workplace accommodations, and the interactive process to creating disability-inclusive spaces, etc. (from the Disability Equity office).

• The Prevention, Education, Assistance, and Resources (PEAR) office sits within ECRT. PEAR provides sexual and gender-based misconduct prevention education for U-M employees, including faculty, staff, and student employees across Ann Arbor, Flint, and Dearborn campuses, and Michigan Medicine. The PEAR team also offers consultations with all faculty and staff leaders, and we assist units and departments as they holistically respond to sexual misconduct within their individual communities.  

• ECRT helps visitors, students, faculty, staff, and applicants navigate the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), including but not limited to, employee accommodations, digital and physical accessibility, American Sign Language (ASL) interpreting and Communication Access Realtime Translation (CART) services, events/sporting events, and guidance on service and support animals on campus. 

How to reach them

• Web: FASCCO

• Address: 1009 Greene St.

• Phone: 734.936.8660

• Email: fascco@umich.edu 

About FASCCO

FASCCO provides support and assistance to university staff and faculty in resolving personal or work-related concerns. The goal is to help you develop and foster strengths and resiliency to enhance your emotional health, well-being, and job performance. 

• Services: You can find confidential and professional counseling, coaching, support groups, training, and consultation services for supervisors. 

• FASCCO Informational Toolkit

How to reach them

• Web: facultyombuds.umich.edu/

• Address: 4001 Palmer Commons

• Phone: 734.763.2707

• Email: facultyombuds@umich.edu 

About Faculty Ombuds

The Office of the University Faculty Ombuds is a confidential, impartial, informal, and independent resource for faculty members who need help resolving academic and administrative problems and disputes through procedures that may be preferable to a formal grievance or judicial proceedings. The office:

• ensures a fair, equitable, and expeditious resolution

• makes an informal inquiry, requests relevant documentation, reviews matters, offers options for resolution, makes referrals, and mediates disputes independently and impartially 

• serves as a resource for information, communication, and referrals, and makes recommendations for constructive change when University policies or procedures generate conflicts or concerns

• adheres to professional standards of practice established by the International Ombudsman Association.

LSA also has a Unit Ombuds available as a resource and to help resolve disputes.  Faculty may reach out to either the LSA ombuds or the faculty ombuds according to their preference. 

Faculty covered by collective bargaining agreements, including Lecturers, Librarians, Archivists and Curators, should reach out to the LEO for dispute resolution.

How to reach them

• Web: advance.umich.edu/

• Address: 506 E. Liberty, 2nd floor

• Phone: 734.647.6115

• Email: advanceprogram@umich.edu 

About the ADVANCE Program

The ADVANCE Program focuses on four areas relevant to the success of all faculty: recruitment, retention, workplace climate, and leadership development. Together, these encompass not only multiple stages of faculty careers but also multiple mechanisms by which faculty diversity and excellence at U-M are enhanced. 

The strategies we use to address our goals can be broadly categorized as: research and evaluation; knowledge and skill development; community building; and resources and support.