QMy husband and I have a 14-month-old daughter who attends a local German day care. During German holidays when her day care is closed, she attends the Army’s Child Development Center as hourly care.
The CDC allows parents to call 30 days in advance to reserve hourly care. Can the Ramstein CDC do the same? Since my husband and I work on Ramstein, it would be more convenient for us to use the Ramstein CDC versus at Landstuhl or Miseau. Ramstein CDC will only let you call the day of for hourly care, which isn’t conducive for working parents looking for an alternative to their normal day care.
AThank you for your question and providing us the opportunity to discuss hourly childcare within our Air Force Child Development Centers. Our mission is to provide quality, affordable and accessible programs that provide direct support to mission readiness.
To provide hourly care, we would have to designate empty slots and not fill them so that when we have hourly children we are within mandated provider to child ratios. Unfortunately, we cannot currently support hourly care as we have more than 180 members on the waiting list who are either single parents or military married to military needing full day care. As a result, we only offer hourly care through slot vacancies as a result of absences related to vacations and illness.
All KMC programs offer a rental slot program in which full-time parents may place their child’s slot in the rental program for a short period of time. Our Family Member Programs Flight Child Development Programs offers 502 full-time childcare slots and recognizes additional slots are required to meet the growing demand.
Now, the good news – under the OSD Child Care Emergency Intervention Program, there are three childcare construction projects underway in the KMC with an estimated completion date of January 2010. Once complete, there will be an additional 284 slots available – 164 in CDC and 140 in School Age Programs. Unfortunately, since our current total waiting list is 308, we will likely not be able to offer reserved care. We truly hope these projects will help meet the needs of military parents throughout the KMC.
The Commander’s Action Line gives KMC members a direct link to wing leadership and is a way for KMC members to ask a question or express a concern on the policies and procedures of the base, as well as discuss safety and security issues. To submit an action line, e-mail
editor@kaiserslauternamerican.com with “Action Line” as the subject.
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QMy husband and I have a 14-month-old daughter who attends a local German day care. During German holidays when her day care is closed, she attends the Army’s Child Development Center as hourly care.
The CDC allows parents to call 30 days in advance to reserve hourly care. Can the Ramstein CDC do the same? Since my husband and I work on Ramstein, it would be more convenient for us to use the Ramstein CDC versus at Landstuhl or Miseau. Ramstein CDC will only let you call the day of for hourly care, which isn’t conducive for working parents looking for an alternative to their normal day care.
AThank you for your question and providing us the opportunity to discuss hourly childcare within our Air Force Child Development Centers. Our mission is to provide quality, affordable and accessible programs that provide direct support to mission readiness.
To provide hourly care, we would have to designate empty slots and not fill them so that when we have hourly children we are within mandated provider to child ratios. Unfortunately, we cannot currently support hourly care as we have more than 180 members on the waiting list who are either single parents or military married to military needing full day care. As a result, we only offer hourly care through slot vacancies as a result of absences related to vacations and illness.
All KMC programs offer a rental slot program in which full-time parents may place their child’s slot in the rental program for a short period of time. Our Family Member Programs Flight Child Development Programs offers 502 full-time childcare slots and recognizes additional slots are required to meet the growing demand.
Now, the good news – under the OSD Child Care Emergency Intervention Program, there are three childcare construction projects underway in the KMC with an estimated completion date of January 2010. Once complete, there will be an additional 284 slots available – 164 in CDC and 140 in School Age Programs. Unfortunately, since our current total waiting list is 308, we will likely not be able to offer reserved care. We truly hope these projects will help meet the needs of military parents throughout the KMC.
The Commander’s Action Line gives KMC members a direct link to wing leadership and is a way for KMC members to ask a question or express a concern on the policies and procedures of the base, as well as discuss safety and security issues. To submit an action line, e-mail
editor@kaiserslauternamerican.com with “Action Line” as the subject.