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Child Care Subsidy

The Child Care Subsidy program helps low-income families to sustain their employment, educational efforts and job training by paying a subsidy for their children who are in the care of DHS-approved child care providers. Unless child care is required for protective purposes, families must meet income and activity requirements to qualify for this subsidy program.
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Military Programs

Child Care Aware of America serves more than 10,000 military children every year. Visit childcareaware.org/fee-assistancerespite/military-families and select your branch of service for more information on eligible programs and assistance,

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Maui County Subsidies

There are currently three unique childcare subsidy programs for families in Maui County, each is designed to meet different needs and eligibility criteria:

Quality Care for Hawaiian Keiki (QCHK)

Maui County Childcare Subsidy (MCCS)

MFSS Disaster Relief Childcare Subsidy (DRCS)

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Preschool Open Doors

The Preschool Open Doors (POD) program is a separate subsidy program with funds that provides services state-wide to families sending their children to a licensed preschool during the three (3) school years prior to kindergarten entry. The goal of POD is to promote school readiness for children, and the program focuses on meeting the needs of the child.

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Koka HELP for Child Care

This program is designed to help qualified parents with monthly financial aid for child care costs for keiki ages 6 weeks to 12 years. The HELP Program is focused on serving Native Hawaiian, Native American Indian, and Alaska Native families who are working or attending school or in job training.
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PAUAHI FOUNDATION KAHAPUAʻOHAI

Kahapuaʻohai provides tuition assistance to ʻohana with keiki ages 3 to 5 who face financial barriers to accessing quality early learning programs during these critical developmental years.
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