Hampton Roads is the largest military population in the world, holds the most military bases in one concentrated area in the world, and is a Navy EFMP Category 5 Stabilization Region. 
These are families who are already vulnerable. They are thousands of miles away from any friends and family. But you expect them to just Willy nilly hand out the UNPAID title of EOR to some random individual they don’t know so they can still provide PCA services to their children? That’s discriminatory and the DOD will be receiving multiple emails about this. Military families are already at an extreme disadvantage. We have insurance that doesn’t properly cover our children, so we are urged by Fleet and Family Services to seek Medicaid waivers. Many spouses are unable to work due to their children’s therapy schedules, being sent home irregularly from school due to needs and behaviors. These waivers and being PCA are how their children are getting their needs met. We can’t even get military respite providers because there are none. So how do you expect us to hire someone to do it when THE MILITARY CANT. Child Care Aware, the Navy and Air Force’s respite program here, pays $25 an hour. AND THEY CANT FIND PROVIDERS. So how do you expect us to stop being PCA, become the EOR otherwise we can’t get care for our kids, AND give someone WAY LESS than what military respite pays them?