Child Care Assistance Program

This program provides funding to enhance the quality, affordability, and supply of child care available to Virginia's families. Child care services are child-centered, family-focused services that support the family goals of economic self-sufficiency and child development by providing for the supervision, protection, and well-being of a child while the parent is participating in an approved activity.

Goals for the Childcare Assistance Program:

Provide low-income families with the financial resources to find and afford quality child care for their children

Ensure that the family child care program contributes to the broader objective of self-sufficiency. To provide child care to parents trying to achieve independence from public assistance

Promote parental choice in the selection of child care. To empower working parents to make their own decisions on the child care that best suits their family's needs

Provide consumer education to help parents make informed choices about child care

Ensure that subsidy dollars are provided to the neediest families

Enhance the quality and increase the supply of child care for all families

Improve coordination among child care programs and early childhood development programs

Eligibility

Must be a resident of Fauquier County
Must fall within the income guidelines (see chart below)
Must be working or attending school on a full time basis for full time care.

For any further eligibility information please call the Fauquier County Department of Social Services at 540-422-8400.

Income Eligibility Chart

Family Size Monthly Maximum Income Level for 10/1/2010-9/30/2012

  1          $1,670
  2          $2,247
  3          $2,823
  4          $3,400
  5          $3,976
  6          $4,553
  7          $5,130
  8          $5,706
  9          $6,283
10         $6,859

Application Process

Please click on the link below to apply for Child Care Services.

https://commonhelp.virginia.gov/access/

Date Last Modified: 07/03/2012