About the Program

• Home environment with smaller adult to child ratios
• Mixed age groups that allow younger and older children to learn from each other
• Continuity of care and flexible scheduling

• FCC Providers must follow all Department of Defense and Air Force guidelines and are required to undergo strict licensing requirements, including completing 24 hours of mandatory training, as well as annual training, and competency based Air Force Training Modules
• FCC Providers must successfully pass comprehensive background checks on all household members ages 12+
  Once licensed, FCC Providers are visited unannounced monthly to ensure compliance with guidelines
• FCC Providers set their own fees
• If you are interested in a FCC provider, schedule a time to interview with them to ensure a good match between both families. Have questions ready about their policies such as discipline, vacation, illness etc.

To apply for care, eligible families must fill out their household profile and submit a request through MilitaryChildCare.com. Requests for care may be submitted at any time, even prior to birth or to receiving hard-copy orders for a PCS.

Request Care at MilitaryChildCare.com

Filling out a request for care does not guarantee your child a slot. Priority determination will be made for placement unless space is available and no waiting list exists. The list is reviewed daily by management.

• Priority 1A – Child Development Program Staff
• Priority 1B – Single/Dual Military & Military with a Full-Time Working Spouse
• Priority 1C – Military Members with a Part-Time Working Spouse or those with a Spouse Seeking Employment
• Priority 1D – Military Members with a Spouse Enrolled Full-Time in a Post-Secondary Institution
• Priority 2 – Single/Dual DoD Civilians with a Full-Time Working Spouse
• Priority 3 – Space Available

View Full Priority Breakdown

Our waiting list is divided into an active list for families who will accept a space as soon as it is available, and an inactive list for families who will not need care within the next 30 days. Once families have a date of care needed within 30 days, they will automatically move to the active waitlist.

A family may go up or down on the list due to another family of higher priority signing up for, or declining care. It is always recommended that families have backup care.

Important: Families PCSing to GFAFB must update their profile to reflect what their family status will be upon arrival in Grand Forks in order to be accurately prioritized on the waitlist. If a family’s status is incorrect when offered care, they may have care revoked due to an incorrect priority and will have to reapply.

The SUB program is designed to assist families in the utilization of an FCC home, and pay the same weekly fee that they would be charged for child care at the CDC or School-Age Care.

• Open to Active Duty, Reserve/Guard in an Active Duty status, or DoD civilians
• All adults living in the household must be either working, enrolled in school, or seeking employment
• Spouses actively seeking employment must submit verification every 30 days once the child is enrolled in care.
• The child may be removed from care if the spouse has not gained employment after 90 days
• Fee Based Program: Complete the request for care at militarychildcare.com by selecting a FCC Provider, then contact the FCC Office

The EDC Program is designed to assist families when occasionally parental workloads, due to extended duty hours, exceed the normal operation hours of the childcare facility where they are already purchasing full-time or before/after school care.

Examples: mission-related duty, extended duty days, temporary shift change (not to exceed 3 working days), rapid mobilization, dual military or single parent deployment until alternate child care is arranged, federal holidays, basewide down days when Child and Youth Programs are closed and parents are required to work, mandatory PT, etc.

• Open to Active Duty, Reserve/Guard Member in an active duty status, or DoD civilians
• All adults living in the household must be either working, enrolled in school, or seeking employment
• Spouses actively seeking employment must submit verification every 30 days once the child is enrolled in care. The child may be removed from care if the spouse has not gained employment after 90 days
• Free Program: Complete the request for care at militarychildcare.com by selecting a FCC Provider, then contact the FCC Office

The FCC 24/7 Child Care and RPA Extended Duty Care programs are designed to assist families in utilizing an FCC home when their work schedules are regularly outside the normal operation hours of the childcare facility where they are already purchasing full-time or before/after school care.

These programs are specifically designed to support shift workers and any personnel who are required to work overnights, holidays, and weekends (e.g. Security Forces, Command Post, Fire Department, 348th pilots & sensor operators etc.)

• Open to Active Duty, Reserve/Guard in an active duty status, or DoD civilians
• Must be scheduled to work & work must directly impact the mission
• No other adult in the household available to provide care
• Must be purchasing full-time care or during the school year, before and after school care
• Free Program: Contact the FCC office

MSAC is designed to provide child care to allow spouses to attend approved appointments related to key aspects of military life.

Examples: Medical appointments, classes offered by the Military and Family Readiness Center, appointments with the Chaplain, Family Advocacy, and Medical Agencies; employment opportunities, such as job interviews, initial job training/new employee orientation

• Open to spouses of Active Duty or Guard/Reserve members in an active duty status
• Spouse must be attending an approved appointment
• No other adult in the household available to provide care
• Free Program: Contact the FCC office