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Military Child Care in Your Neighborhood or Employment Opportunity

Fri May 22, 2009 10:41 AM EDT
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By PowerIsKnowledge
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Many Active Duty Service Members live in communities where no military child care is available or where there are long waiting lists for child care on the installation.

To meet their needs, the Department of Defense (DoD) has asked the National Association of Child Care Resource & Referral Agencies (NACCRRA) to partner with state and local Child Care Resource & Referral agencies (CCR&Rs) to refer military families to nationally accredited civilian child care programs and help additional civilian child care programs in selected communities become accredited.

www.naccrra.org/military

1-800-424-2246 Child Care Aware

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PowerIsKnowledge

Some can use this as an opportunity for employment.

  • 4 votes
Reply#1 - Fri May 22, 2009 10:44 AM EDT
GoldenGateMami_Susi

As a former military spouse and licensed childcare provider on and off base......I can tell you.....that most bases offer licensing opportunities for anyone wanting to have a licensed family childcare home in quarters on base and they do not need to live on base to put their kids in licensed family homes on base......as long as they're military or even DOD employees.

At Pearl Harbor I had my own licensed family childcare home and I had families and DOD that lived on and off base on my rosters.

They just need to go to their Family Service Centers and ask....either for a list of available providers on their base or if they want to get licensed/certified......they can do that through that too.

It is a great employment option for stay at home moms on base and a great one stop shop childcare option for families that live off base but work on base and are waiting for a spot at the on base child development centers.

Thanks for posting this..........you rarely see stuff like this on here.

  • 5 votes
Reply#2 - Fri May 22, 2009 11:30 AM EDT
PowerIsKnowledge

Thanks for taking the time to comment!

  • 3 votes
Reply#3 - Fri May 22, 2009 11:42 AM EDT
GoldenGateMami_Susi

You're welcome PIK :)

  • 2 votes
#3.1 - Fri May 22, 2009 11:44 AM EDT
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Uncle Nick

Great info PIK!

  • 4 votes
Reply#4 - Sat May 23, 2009 1:36 AM EDT
JubalUSA

Excellent!

  • 2 votes
Reply#5 - Sat May 23, 2009 1:41 AM EDT
USAF Vet-923294

This is good news. I remember when I was in and we tried to get my son into the Base Child Care. The waiting list was unbelievably long.

In fact, I think they finally got an opening for him shortly after he finished his tour in Iraq! LOL ;0 )

  • 7 votes
Reply#6 - Sat May 23, 2009 1:58 AM EDT
Uncle Nick

In fact, I think they finally got an opening for him shortly after he finished his tour in Iraq!

[snicker]

that's as good as that I just found out, that since my Mom is a disabled vet, I'm eligible for free tuition here in Indiana... yes, at age 42 (well, 42 next Tuesday) and even after my own tour back in the Reagan era!

  • 5 votes
#6.1 - Sat May 23, 2009 2:17 AM EDT
USAF Vet-923294

Well you know how the military is........Hurry up and wait.

  • 2 votes
#6.2 - Sun May 24, 2009 12:17 PM EDT
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PowerIsKnowledge

Uncle Nick! You're still young enough to take advantage of the program! Go for it!

  • 4 votes
Reply#7 - Sat May 23, 2009 5:36 AM EDT
Uncle Nick

LOL, actually, my age is of no consequence according to the way it works here, wether I was 18 or 81, just so long as one of my parents either received a purple heart or a military disability during "wartime"...

Mom got her "wartime disability" during the first Gulf War while chief wardmaster working on the ward treating "Enemy Combatants" (POWs)... ironically, I had just transfered to the National Guard from the Army Reserves, and if I had stayed in the Reserves, I would have been about 2 kilometers down the road from my mother on the Saudi/Iraq border.

  • 3 votes
#7.1 - Sun May 24, 2009 12:29 AM EDT
PowerIsKnowledge

Terrible way to receive money for college. One of my son's friends dad was injured in Iraq and the kid got a full ride. Another of his friend's dad lost his legs in Iraq and of course his kids will too be getting the full ride. Small price for taxpayers to pay for children whose parent(s) are killed or come back with missing limbs, blind, or with mental disorders.

  • 3 votes
#7.2 - Sun May 24, 2009 7:29 AM EDT
Uncle Nick

Well, I have the advantage that I was an adult when Mom got injured, so a little more emotionally prepared... don't know how I would have handled it if I had been a kid... She still has mild PTSD (LOL, which the medical staff at our nearest hospital found out about the hard way after her stroke/heart attack about a year and a half ago!), but her main injury was severe nerve damage to her leg after an EC (POW) grabbed a syringe from her and dug it in her leg (which she then kneed him in the groin, pulled the gurney down on top of him, and stood on top of the gurney until the MP could get to them from the other side of the ward) and lung damage from the burning oil wells and burning depleted uranium... she managed to continue in her civilian job and remained in Reserves when she got back for another 12 years, but the damage to her leg and lungs just got progressively worse. She is retired now, and, despite the stroke and 2nd heart attack (she also had a heart attack just before she retired from work and the Reserves) her health has improved in the two and a half years since I've been back home to help take care of her.

Mom keeps telling me to think of it as the state's way of paying for me taking care of her, LOL

  • 3 votes
#7.3 - Sun May 24, 2009 8:31 PM EDT
PowerIsKnowledge

I love your Mom Uncle Nick! And I love you for taking care of her!

  • 2 votes
#7.4 - Mon May 25, 2009 7:00 AM EDT
Uncle Nick

[blush] awww, shucks, PIK...

  • 3 votes
#7.5 - Mon May 25, 2009 8:33 PM EDT
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PenniD

It is great to see someone spreading information to help veterans. The VA/military don't disseminate information, and by the time most people find out about the help they need, it is too late.

Congratulations!

  • 5 votes
Reply#8 - Sat May 23, 2009 10:15 AM EDT
PowerIsKnowledge

Thanks PenniD! I help Veterans and children in any way I can.

Actually they do a good job disseminating information but people just don't visit the places where the information can be found like the public library where I found much of the information I've seeded in the Resources Group. Information can also be found in government agencies but you have to take the time to look through all the various information from all the various businesses, provided.

  • 5 votes
Reply#9 - Sat May 23, 2009 10:57 AM EDT
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