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Military Child Care Access

Benefit overview

The Defense Department created MilitaryChildCare.com to streamline the search for child care and connect families to information and quality child care resources. MilitaryChildCare.com places families in the driver’s seat of their child care search. Families can conduct unlimited, customized searches to find child care providers close to home or work and request care at any time, from any location. This flexibility allows families to identify all available child care options, wherever their mission takes them.

How this benefit helps

This benefit helps military families by helping them conduct unlimited, customized searches to find child care providers close to home or work and request care at any time, from any location.

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Find the best available child care for your family.

Being able to find multiple child care options allows you to find the one that works best for you and your family.

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Find the child care that meets your budget.

When you can see all the child care options in your community, you can find the one that meets your family’s budget.

How to access this benefit

The MilitaryChildCare.com website has more information on child care options, how to become a family care provider or community-based provider, employment opportunities and how to search for care through the Installation Explorer.

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