Child Care Fees. Fees for DoD child care typically change with every new school year. (A significant change in the rate calculation in the 2023-2024 school year delayed the update.) DoD officials ...

She didn’t. Child care resources for military families in the region weren’t enough “to meet even half of the demand,” Ms. Corbitt says.

To date, 12,361 military families are using the platform, and 12,558 child care spot rentals have been facilitated, according to Air Force officials. Nearly 22,500 weeks of child care availability ...

The Military Child Care In Your Neighborhood-Plus initiative started in October 2019 as a two-year pilot program limited to Maryland and five regions of Virginia.

A teddy bear waits for children before the opening of a new military child care center in Norfolk, Virginia, one of three new centers in a DOD pilot program. (Armed Services YMCA) A Defense ...

In November 2023, Carlton Academy, located off Powers and Dublin, became the first off-base child care center to partner in such a way with the military. It remains the only community-contracted ...

In October, a new state-of-the-art child care center on Marine Corps Air Station Miramar became the first of three such facilities to open on a San Diego military base.

The military operates America’s largest employer-sponsored child care program with about 200,000 children of service members and DOD civilians receiving care, according to the report.

San Diego has a unique need for military child care — while less than 1% of the national population lives in San Diego County, nearly 8% of the U.S. active duty military population resides here.

Military families in San Diego County are getting more options for affordable child care through a newly expanded federal initiative. The initiative, launched Tuesday, will help families access ...

A Defense Department pilot program is opening up more than 600 additional child care spaces in three new child care centers for military families in Norfolk, Virginia Beach and the National ...