Become a Family Child Care Provider
Start your own business by becoming a Family Child Care provider. You can extra income while you stay at home with your children. Training, equipment and supplies are absolutely free! Spouses (living off-base) and DoD spouses are eligible to take advantage of this opportunity. Licensing is mandatory for base residents caring for children for more than 10 hours. Call 318.456.8912 for more information.

Severely Injured Military Families' Child Care Assistance
A recent initiative sponsored by DoD provides families of severely injured military members with assistance to find and pay for safe, licensed child care services for a period of six months during their period of recuperation. (Extensions beyond the 6-month period are considered based upon physician reassessment.) Family Member Programs staff work with the National Association for Child Care Resource and Referral to assist families in locating care. The program is available nationwide wherever the injured member is receiving either in-patient or out-patient medical care and allows the spouse to be at bedside or to help with outpatient medical appointments. DoD provides a financial offset to the civilian child care fees during the recovery period.

CDC Annual Rate Increase
The Child Development Center announces its annual 3.6% fee increase effective Thursday, September 1, 2005. Child care fees are set to meet 50% of the enter's operating costs and are based on total family income. Parent fees are used to pay teacher salaries and small amounts of consumable supplies. The other 50% of operating costs are paid with Appropriated Funds. APF funds help defray operating costs of all the administrative staff, 5% of teachers' salaries and all other supplies, food and equipment. Since the average cost to operate a Child Development Center is approximately $300 per week per child, all families receive an AF subsidy. As with any subsidized program, individuals with lower income receive more subsidy than those with a higher income.

Below are the fee ranges set by the Department of Defense. Call 318.456.4139 for more information.

You need Adobe Acrobat to view the rate charts. Download your free version here.
Child Care Fees FAQ (53.5KB - Microsoft Word Format)

New Child Care Payment Policy
A new Air Force policy that applies to patrons of Child Development and Youth Programs, including school age is now in effect. All CDC/Youth Center patrons must provide a credit/debit card or bank authorization and agree to have the card charged or account debited in the event of nonpayment. All information is safeguarded in accordance with AFI 33.332, Provacy Act Program.