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Turn Care Into Credit

Care Is Leadership. Care Is Legacy.

In military-connected families and communities, care is a form of leadership.


It is not secondary work, it is the work that makes everything else possible.

Children & Teens

Children and teens often step into roles of:

  • Emotional support

  • Household stability

  • Sibling guidance

  • Translating new environments

  • Managing transitions and deployments

  • Holding family memory and continuity

 

This labor is real. It is formative. It shapes identity. And it deserves to be seen.

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Care As Cultural Continuity

In the military child community, care is how:

  • Legacies are passed forward

  • Stories are held

  • Belonging is sustained

  • Community is protected

 

Care is how we remain connected, no matter where we go.

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The Purpose of TCCSH

Turn Care Into Credit ensures that youth who carry care roles are:

  • Recognized

  • Affirmed

  • Valued

  • Credited for the leadership they already practice

 

This is not charity. This is not sympathy. This is recognition.

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What "TCCSH" Does

TCCSH translates care work into:

  • Community service hours

  • Leadership documentation

  • Portfolio / college / scholarship recognition

 

It takes what has always been present and names it, with dignity and honor.

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Why It Matters

For many military-connected youth:

Care is the first leadership they learn.

 

TCCSH acknowledges that care is:

  • Skilled

  • relational

  • emotional

  • cultural

  • and deeply generational

 

It is how we rise together.

The Military Child World Expo (MCWE 2026) is a mission-driven, nonprofit educational initiative dedicated to supporting the entire military-connected community, including active duty, National Guard, Reserve, veterans, retirees, Department of Defense/War, civilians, and their families.
 

Contacts

2461 Eisenhower Avenue

Alexandria, Virginia 22314

Phone: 703-646-8410

Email: info@themilitarychildworldexpo.com

Open To The Public

Family Friendly Activities

Entry: Free Entry

Psalm 127:3–4 (NIV) — Legacy & Generational Promise “Children are a heritage from the Lord, offspring a reward from him. Like arrows in the hands of a warrior are children born in one’s youth.”

© 2026 by The Military Child World Expo Foundation

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The Military Child World Expo is the flagship national convening of the Military Child World Expo Foundation (MCWEF), The National Association for Military-Connected Children. A 501 (C) (3) Organization

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