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Browse licensed homes
Review our referral directory for ages served, hours, location, pay type, and current openings across Moore and South OKC.
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For families
We help you find the right home
We connect families with licensed Family Childcare Providers in our community. Each home is independently owned, DHS monitored, and built around small groups.
How it works
Three simple steps to find care
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Reach out directly
Call or email the provider that fits your family. Each home is independently owned, so you talk with the person who will care for your child.
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Visit and enroll
Tour the home, ask about routines and licensing, and confirm openings. For extra listings, visit our Facebook referral group.
What quality looks like in a family home
Developmentally Appropriate
Family child care embodies the very components of high quality early care and education for young children – a stable long term relationship with the same provider in the comfort of a home environment and in small groups where each child’s needs can be best met. Research from a range of disciplines demonstrates that the first experiences in life play a critical role in a child’s ability to grow up healthy and ready to learn. Family Childcare Providers are keenly aware of the profound impact they have on the children in their care.
School Preparation
Because Family Childcare Providers care for children from the first few weeks or months of life, they have profound and far-reaching effects on the children’s development and their ability to succeed in school. This nurturing and interactive relationship is essential to a child’s fundamental building blocks. Many family child care providers incorporate school readiness curricula in their programs, specifically tailored to each child’s interests and potential.
Affordability
Quality care is expensive, especially with the low adult to child ratio in family child care, but the early years are too important to cut corners. Providers invest all they can in their programs while being sensitive to what parents can afford. Despite these challenges, family child care remains a very cost effective child care option.
Questions families ask
What is family childcare?
Family childcare is licensed care in a provider’s home. Children learn in small groups with a stable, long-term relationship with the same caregiver — in a home environment rather than a large center.
Are these homes licensed?
Yes. Providers in M.F.D.H.A. are independent, self-employed business owners. Their homes are licensed and monitored by Oklahoma’s Department of Human Services.
How do I know who has openings?
Our Find Care page lists current openings, waiting lists, and full programs as reported by providers. Availability changes, so always confirm directly with the provider. More ads are posted in our Facebook referral group.
Do providers accept DHS or military pay?
Some do. Filter the directory by pay type, then confirm with the provider. Options across our members include private pay, DHS subsidy, military, and tribal.
How can a provider join M.F.D.H.A.?
Licensed or permitted DHS family childcare providers in our area can complete the join form. We will follow up with next steps.
More provider ads live in our Facebook referral group.