Outreach Services

CYSS Services recognizes the stress that longer and multiple deployments puts on Army Families and that the support they need includes liaison with schools to ensure positive relationships with the schools attended by Army youth!

The program will extend services to the Reserve and National Guards. Serve activated Reserve Component and Geographically isolated families through Army sponsored community based Child and Youth Programs. We offer several services within this program to include:

• Continued community partnerships and coalitions as sources of care that are needed within all programs.
• Established babysitter training and referral system set-up for child care after duty time.
• The CYS Volunteer Program is set up for youth to participate in community work. A tracking system would ensure the numbers of hours for each month for feedback on reports. These hours would count toward future scholarships upon graduation from high school.
• Resource and Referral list of outside organizations in the surrounding Madison County area.
• Short Term Alternative Child Care (STACC) arranged for units, clubs and organizations for on going meetings parties and special events on site.
• Establish communication or link with deployed parents from our program.
• Establish outreach and support services for youth outside the gates of RSA.
• Establish youth council and have representation at the PAC Meetings each month.
• Extend all youth services to the Reserve and National Guards families by marketing visible flyers to organizations outside of the gate.
• Support the Installation Mobilization and Contingency Plans to include:
  1. Extended Hours
  2. "Round the Clock" Care
  3. Respite/Reunion Care
  4. Hourly Care for Unit Functions
  5. Lower Child Care Fees for Deployed Parents
  6. School Support Services
  7. Youth Communication with Deployed Parents
  8. Outreach and Support Services for Youth
• Support community activities in their effort to improve the quality of life by providing accessible and affordable child care for community volunteers.
• Resource and referral for Operation Child Care for the National Guard & Reserve Members. This program was created to make your rest, reunion and recuperation time on the "homeland" peaceful and more enjoyable. It is offered one-on-one time with your spouse, personal business or an afternoon of recreational activities. Operation Child Care is easy to arrange and is performed by regulated child care providers or trained 4-H baby-sitters right in your community. Go to wwwChildCareAware.org or contact Dawn Brunson at Dawn.a.brunson@us.army.mil . You, as the soldier are eligible to receive a minimum of four hours of free child care. Another contact for youth involvement is Jerry Williams at gwilliams@mpscrc.com.

Phase II of the Von Braun Complex on Redstone. We anticipate an increase in the customer workforce and growth in all of our youth programs.

Terms:
CDS baby-sitter training and referral services-SPS service that trains and refers family member baby-sitters ages 13 years or older.

CDS resource and referral service-SPS essential service that provides information about child care services on and off-post to meet each patron's unique child care needs

Service assists patrons with child care arrangements prior to new duty assignments.

Extended hours Family Child Care-Care for children of parents who require routine evening child care, work unusual or long hours, or have mission-related child care needs that require child care service over 12 hours a day, but not to exceed 14 consecutive days.

Long term FCC-Care for children which encompasses 15 or more days but does not exceed 60 days unless on an exception basis.

Short term alternative child care (STACC)-Optional SPS program that provides on-site hourly group child care when the parents or guardian of all children in care are attending the same function in the facility.

SPS delivery system-A system of alternative child care programs and services offered to augment and support the Child Development Center and Family Child Care delivery systems.

Parent Advisory Board-Parents meet the last Tuesday of each month, 1100, 1500 Weeden Mountain Road to discuss all aspect of childcare and concerns for all programs.

Parent education resources-SPS common support service that coordinates all parent education service for all CYS delivery system.

Volunteer child care in unit setting (VCCUS)-Optional SPS program that enables free child care services to be provided by family members in one military unit or organization for family members in another military unit or organization (or within the same military unit or organization) in exchange for similar services at a future, mutually agreed upon time.

Viable care-A child care option which meets the patron's schedule, reflects the necessary program type and the appropriate age group for the child. Care may be on or off-post in any CYS system, at any location convenient to either the home or work site. Viable off-post care options are those which are comparable in price and quality to CYS sponsored child care options, Care on or off-post which exceeds twenty percent more than a DOD fee policy range category is not viable for patrons in that category.

Mobilization and Contingency Plan (MAC)-A plan for developing, implementing and monitoring installation child care support during mobilization, deployment, natural disasters and other contingency situations.

• Preliminary Registration Forms (partially fillable)
• DA Form 4719-R - Registration Card - please fill out in advance by clicking here (fillable)
• DA Form 5222-R - Sponsor Consent - please fill out in advance by clicking here (fillable)
• DA Form 7625-1 - Screening Tool - please fill out in advance by clicking here (fillable)
• DD Form 2652 - Childcare Fees- please fill out in advance by clicking here (fillable)

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Current CYSS Fees