Families are facing a lack of access to on-base childcare at JBLM. Nearly 200 families are on a waitlist for childcare and after school programs for school age kids.
JOINT BASE LEWIS-MCCHORD, Wash. — Around 180 families are stuck on a waiting list for childcare for school age children at Joint Base Lewis-McChord (JBLM), as demand for services outpaces availability, forcing some parents to make difficult choices.
“I feel like JBLM command failed our family,” said Alina Mulder, a working mother whose husband is currently stationed overseas for a year.
Just one week before the start of kindergarten, she said the base informed her
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