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Welcome to MilitaryChildCare.com

Your gateway to DoD-approved child care options worldwide. From here, you can explore family resources, create an account, or log in to search for and request military-operated child care and Military Child Care in Your Neighborhood fee assistance.

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Military Child Care in Your Neighborhood

Did you know that the DoD and the US Coast Guard offers fee assistance to cover some of the cost of community-based care? Learn more to see if MCCYN might be available for you or search for potential community providers near you.

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Child Care in Your Home (CCYH)

CCYH is a DoD fee assistance pilot program that helps military families with nontraditional work schedules cover the cost of full-time child care provided in their homes. Learn more to see if CCYH could work for your family.

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Transferring? Pilot program assists with travel costs of a designated person to provide child care

If you cannot get child care within 30 days of moving to your new duty station, learn how you may get reimbursed for the travel costs of a designated person who will care for your children.

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Explore Child Care Options

Use this tool to explore available child care programs and providers. You can enter a location or simply select Go without entering a location to use our interactive map. Need to place a request for child care? Log in to your account.

About Military Child Care

Access to child care directly affects mission readiness, morale, and retention of defense personnel worldwide. For this reason, the Department of Defense is committed to connecting military and DoD-affiliated families to quality, affordable child care programs. For an overview of MCC and how you can request child care for your family, watch this short video and/or select Learn More.

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Child Care and School Programs

Military families like yours can access a range of child care and school programs. Click on a program name to learn more about the program and how it is designed to support military families.

Support for Families

Military members routinely PCS every 2 to 3 years, resulting in unique challenges for families who need child care. Moving abroad or to a community without extended family to ease the child care burden makes child care decisions that much more important.

MilitaryChildCare.com was designed to help you make informed child care choices. Here, you can find a variety of military child care resources. You can learn how to request and manage care in MCC, read about military child care and fee assistance programs, learn about your family’s priority and how this impacts waitlist sequencing, and browse family resources.

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Work with Military Children

Looking for a career with military child care?

As the nation’s largest employer-sponsored child care system, the DoD offers a variety of job opportunities at more than 850 child and youth development programs. Positions range from entry level to experienced child care professionals and managers.

In addition to working at a DoD child and youth program, there are also opportunities to own your own business by becoming a military certified Family Child Care provider or joining our network of community-based providers.

Learn how to join our global network of trusted professionals and providers.

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