Child Care

Support for your child care journey

Military Family Services (MFS) provides guidance to help you make informed child care decisions with clarity and confidence. While MFS does not provide child care directly, MFS staff works alongside families to:

• Simplify the child care landscape
• Explore available options
• Connect you to trusted tools, resources, and supports

Wherever you are in your child care search, MFS Child Care Navigators are here to help you understand your options and determine your next steps.

Child Care Navigators provide personalized, one-on-one support to help you:

• Understand and access child care options 
• Identify local availability, waitlists and registration processes
• Navigate licensed, unlicensed and home-based child care
• Explore a range of child care pathways, including respite, hospice, emergency, and extended child care
• Receive national support with provincial/territorial insight
• Advocate for your family’s needs, such as requesting priority consideration, supporting access needs, and more
• Connect families to trusted tools, resources, MFRCs, PSP, and community supports.

You bring your family’s needs - we bring expertise, connection, and support to help you move forward with confidence.