Webinar Resources | Navigating Child Care Barriers and Their Effect on Military Spouse Employment
OneOp Resources
- Academy Resource Inventory
- Blog | Balancing Duty and Family: The Childcare Challenge for Military Families
- Blog | Mapping Your Local Ecosystem: A Guide to Community Asset Mapping
- Podcast | How does a small North Carolina city become a national example of collaboration between military and community?
- Podcast | Partnering on Early Education for Military Kids
- Self-Paced Course | A 360 View of the Spouse Employment Environment
- Webinar | Securing Capital and Mentorship as a Military Spouse Entrepreneur
External Resources
- Buffett Early Childhood Institute
- Buffett Early Childhood Institute | Congressional Briefings Highlight Military Child Care Gaps
- ChildCare.gov | Regulated Child Care
- ChildCare.gov | State Resources
- E4C Taskforce | Employers for Childcare
- Early Learning Matters
- Early Matters Texas | www.earlymatterstx.org
- Harvard Center on the Developing Child | Guide to Executive Function
- Heckman Equation | Heckman Curve
- Heckman Equation | Resources and Research Papers
- MilitaryChildCare.com
- MilitaryChildCare.com | Child Care in Your Home
- MilitaryChildCare.com | DOW Child Care Provider Network
- MilitaryChildCare.com | Early Learning and Family Resources
- MilitaryChildCare.com | MCC Central
- MilitaryChildCare.com | Outreach Materials
- Military Times | The Difference a Retention Bonus Could Make for Military Child Care Workers
- Texas Workforce Commission | Child Care by the Numbers
- Virtual Lab School
- War Department Office of Spouse Employment | SpouseWorks (formerly SECO)
Citations
- Best Place for Working Parents. (2024). 2024 National Trends Report.
- Blue Star Families. (2025). 2024 Military Family Lifestyle Survey: Comprehensive report.
- Buffett Early Childhood Institute. (2026, June 9). National CARES Partnership. University of Nebraska.
- Duffy, E. (2026, July 24). Congressional briefings highlight military child care gaps—and the impact on families, workforce, and readiness. Buffett Early Childhood Institute.
- Early Matters Greater Austin. (n.d.). Our progress.
- Kos, E., Clark, K., De Santis, N., & Joseph, T. (2024, March 26). Childcare benefits more than pay for themselves at US companies. Boston Consulting Group.
- Office of People Analytics (2025) | 2024 Active-Duty Spouse Survey Spouse Survey
- Strong, J. D., Howell, K. M., Linsner, R., Blaalid, B., Higgason, K. A., Brennan, R., Ekundayo, M. S., & Moser, J. (2025). Strengthening military families amid global challenges: Comprehensive report 2024. Blue Star Families.
- Travis County. (n.d.). Raising Travis County: Child Care and Out-of-School Time Fund.
The above resources, links, and references may include both no cost and cost-based resources and inclusion in this list does not constitute endorsement by DOW or USDA.
