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Armed Services YMCA Expands Child Care Services to All 50 States

Friday, February 5, 2010

child careLate last year, the Armed Services YMCA Respite Child Care program expanded nationwide. And for parents with deployed spouses, this program expansion is a huge benefit.

The Armed Services YMCA, as part of a Defense Department contract, provides health and wellness opportunities, including the Respite Child Care program, for reserve-component servicemembers and their families across the country through their local YMCAs.

The Respite Child Care program, part of that contract, provides up to 16 hours of child care for families of deployed Guard and reserve personnel.

According to Mike Landers, deputy national director of the Armed Services YMCA, this means deploying Guardsmen and reservists and their families are eligible for a full YMCA membership for three months before deployment, the 12 months of deployment, and three months after.

"The respite care was designed to be an opportunity for the mom, whose husband is deployed, or the dad whose wife is deployed, to be able to drop their kids off to just have a little peace and quiet, to go to the commissary, to go shopping, to do whatever they need to do," Landers said.

For more information about the YMCA Respite Child Care program visit www.ymca.net.

Source: www.cinchouse.com


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