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Little Rock Air Force Base - Child Care |
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Child Development Center
501-987-6130
Building 1990
Hours of Operation:
Mon - Fri: 6:30 am - 6 pm
CDC Annex
501-987-8187
Building 868
Hours of Operation:
Mon - Fri: 7 am - 5:30 pm
The CDC has immediate full-time openings for children ages 3-5. The center provides a safe, nurturing environment that promotes the social, cognitive, language and physical development of young children. Its goal is to support each child's needs and abilities and challenge them to reach their individual potential. It is accredited by the National Association for the Education of Young Children and follow the standards set by the Air force Services Agency. Children of active duty military personnel, DoD civilian personnel, reservists on active duty and DoD contractors are eligible. Priority is given to families who are either single parents or whose spouse is employed full-time or a full-time student. Fees are based on total family income. Let the CDC staff enhance the educational development of your child in a developmentally appropriate atmosphere. For more information, call 987-6130.
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Family Childcare Program
501-987-3156
Building 1988
Hours of Operation:
Mon - Fri: 7:30 am - 4:30 pm
View the FCC Provider Listing Here
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Becoming a Family Child Care Provider
Next Classes:
8 am - 3 pm
12 - 16 May 08
16 - 20 Jun 08
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Want a chance to meet new friends and run your own business? Licensed providers are needed in government quarters. Training is free and includes CPR/First Aid, Nutrition, Child Abuse, Child Development, Diversity, Record Keeping and much more. A resource center is available to all licensed providers free of charge. Certification training will be held 12-16 May & 16-20 June 08. Anyone providing child care on a regular basis or more than 10 hours a week in government quarters must be licensed.
Dependents of Active Duty residing off base can be Affiliated licensed homes. You must first be licensed with the State of Arkansas, complete the FCC certification training and process. As an Affiliated licensed home with the LRAFB Family Child Care Program you have access to a large resource center, Child development training, USDA food program and much more. For more information, please call 987-3156
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| Attention Interested Providers! |
Dependents of Active Duty or Retired Military can be licensed Affiliated homes off base! You must first be licensed with the State of Arkansas, complete the FCC certification training, and process. As a licensed Affiliated home with the LRAFB Family Child Care program you have access to a large Resource Center, child development training, USDA food program, and much more.
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| Extended Duty Child Care |
The EDC Initiative is to enable families to obtain free high-quality childcare from licensed or affiliated providers at or near their base when weekly parental workloads due to longer duty hours exceed their typical 50-hour childcare arrangements that they are already purchasing. When parents routine childcare plan for short-term TDYs, shift work, family days or deployments fail, the EDC Initiative is available for “child care emergencies.” To be eligible for this program at least one parent must be a member of the U.S. Military Service: Active Duty; dual employed (military married to civilian) or DoD civilian employee assigned to or working on the installation. The FCC program is the approval authority and its coordinator screens, trains, monitors homes and conducts unannounced inspections. First priority is given to parents whose children are currently enrolled in the Air Force Child Development, School-age and/or FCC program and completed all appropriate forms. For more information, call 501-987-3156 or 7162.
Extended Duty Care can be used:
On-base mission related duty
Extended duty days
Temporary shift changes (not to exceed 3-days)
Rapid mobilization
Dual military or single parent deployment until children are picked up by AF Form 357 designee (not to exceed 3-days)
No notice/short-notice TDY
Less than 1-week notice.
If no other family member is available
If verified with supervisor
Provides temporary assistance (not to exceed 3-days per calendar year) until other arrangements can be found.
Spouse of deployed or TDY member who is experiencing a short-term child care emergency created in part by the duty-related absence of spouse (not to exceed 3-days).
Requests to exceed the 3-day time limit are sent to the MAJCOM in advance for approval. Confirmation of approval is sent from the MAJCOM to Flight Chief, FCC Coordinator, and HQ USAF simultaneously.
Extended Duty Care can not be used:
On a regular, recurring basis
To meet parents regular child care requirements
To provide shift work care where shift work is a typical assignment.
Mandatory PT
To provide hourly care for non-duty related reasons
For off-duty education and employment on a recurring basis.
For holidays, family days, CDC/SAP/FCC home closure, attend/watch air shows, etc.
FCC providers that have medical appointments, child
care emergencies that impact on their ability to provide child care or need substitute care (Exception: Approved by MAJCOM and if EDC Provider has unused hours).
Child Development and School-Age staff required to work different shift, longer hours and who have other child care emergencies that impact on their ability to provide child care (Exception: Approved by MAJCOM and if EDC Provider has unused hours).
Family Member Program staff and FCC provider training (Exception: Approved by MAJCOM and if EDC Provider has unused hours---this is allowed on an extremely limited basis).
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| Child Care for Volunteers |
Do you want to volunteer at a Little Rock AFB facility or a local elementary school supporting LRAFB and haven’t been able to find child care? We have the solution to your problem. Licensed Family Child Care (FCC) providers on Little Rock AFB are equipped to care for your child in a loving, safe and healthy family environment while you give of your time to help others. Child care financial assistance is provided through the Family Support Center. The Air Force Aid Society officer will manage disbursement. Checks will be issued and made payable to the FCC Providers on a monthly, bi-monthly or weekly basis. For Volunteer information contact the Airman & Family Readiness Center at 987-6801 and for Child Care information contact the Family Child Care office at 987-3156.
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| Returning Home Family Child Care |
When the Air Force is engaged overseas, members who return from duty are granted 16 hours of free child care per child allowing them to spend time with spouses and catch up on family duties. People must have been deployed on an OEF deployment or in support of contingency operations for more than 30 calendar days to be eligible and the care must be used within 30 days of returning from deployment. This care is offered in a licensed Family Child Care home on a space available basis. For more information, call 501- 987-3156 .
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| Child Care for PCS |
The Child Care for PCS Program is intended to help relieve some of the stress felt by families in the process of a PCS move. The Air Force Aid Society (AFAS) will pay up to 20 hours of child care (per child) in licensed FCC homes on base or in AF affiliated homes off base. Air Force families with PCS orders can obtain a Child Care for PCS Certificate at the base Relocation Office in the Family Support Center. Families can receive a certificate at both the base from which they are departing and at their new base. Certificates are good only at the base at which they are issued--unused hours do not transfer from one base to another. Families may use the 20 hours of child care within 60 days before the family's departure from a base, and 60 days after arriving at the new base. This program is open to all ranks unless there are a shortage of child care providers at the base in which case priority would be given to junior ranking personnel.
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| Provider of the Year |
Mrs. Lisa Longhenry was recently honored as the Little Rock Air Force Base Family Child Care Provider of the Year for 2008. She has been a licensed provider for over 2 years and is a very dedicated professional. Lisa is a member of the National Association for Family Child Care (NAFCC) and active in the LRAFB FCC Provider Association. She received both her Child Development Associate (CDA) and National Association for Family Child Care (NAFCC) Accreditation March 2007. Lisa has a great love for children and was nominated for this award by many of her parents and peers. She is the wife of A1C Jesse Longhenry and the mother of 1 child, infant son Brayden.
Being a Family Child Care Provider has allowed Lisa to stay at home with her child, provide much needed child care to active duty personnel, while providing extra income in her household. A child care provider is able to provide her FCC children a loving environment which compliments her own standards and values. Parents’ who choose child care homes can leave for work each day, secure in the knowledge that their children are receiving the kind of small, homelike, tender loving care that they prefer.
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