Childcare Off-Base for Active-Duty Military (MCCYN)

BEST PRACTICE: Military Childcare in Your Neighborhood-Plus (MCCYN) program

1. MCCYN-Plus Program allows families to receive quality care in locations where nationally accredited care is not available https://www.childcareaware.org/fee-assistancerespite/feeassistancerespiteproviders/feeassistance/
2. Seymour Johnson, 5 accredited facilities in MCCYN-Plus with an additional 34 (3*or higher)
3. The program pays subsidies directly to qualified facilities to offset childcare costs
4. Military families pay the facility in accordance with their installation fee rate based on total family income. The remaining cost is then subsidized by the DoD.
5. MCCYN started in Oct 2021. DoD expanded the program to 10 states.

ACTION: Educate NC Military Installations and community facilities about the benefit

POC: Col Todd Walker, todd.walker@us.af.mil, (919) 722-0101
Ms. Kaci Harrison, kaci.harrison@us.af.mil, (919) 722-5331

* Photo by Lance Cpl. Loriann Dauscher