Fact Sheet About MCEC
The Military Child Education Coalition
The Military Child Education Coalition (MCEC) is in the forefront of a major effort to level the playing field for all military-connected kids worldwide. The Military Child Education Coalition is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that is working hard to identify educational challenges, to create an awareness of those challenges in the military and educational communities, and then to encourage and support opportunities for systemic change where possible. As a national and international organization, serving children wherever the military family is located around the world, our total focus is the highly mobile, military child and his or her educational opportunities.
With over ten years of intensive research, programming, and implementation of methods to assist the mobile military child in the transitions faced regularly in the military service, the Military Child Education Coalition is eminently qualified to create a comprehensive transition support program for children of military families.
The MCEC's record of quality performance and scholarship speaks for itself. The MCEC's ability to research program areas, determine needs, create programs, receive and analyze the results, and properly disseminate that information is well documented in the Secondary Education Transition Study (SETS) MCEC conducted and produced for the U.S. Army. This widely accepted study has resulted in the distribution of over 100,000 SETS reports throughout MCEC's global network. MCEC did not stop when the SETS project was complete.
The MCEC's strong, full-spectrum research experience is not limited to secondary issues. The MCEC continues to apply rigorous research methodically to pre-school, early childhood, and elementary and middle school transition challenges. In all cases, the original research, as well as the current literature, are used carefully by the MCEC to inform communities, provide professional development, and establish programs to meet key needs and to spotlight potential solutions. In addition to MCEC's work about school transitions, the unique issues associated with deployment and separations are also in the MCEC's area of expertise and data-gathering.
As a result, MCEC has instituted such programs as the Transition Counselors Institute, the Interactive Counseling Center, Parent Workshops through the Parent to Parent program, Supporting Children of the National Guard and Reserve Institute, Special Education Leaders Institute, Living in the New Normal - Supporting Children Through Trauma and Loss, Memorandums of Agreements, numerous publications, Chart Your Course series, GLU kits for early literacy, the Education Resource Center, a regularly updated website, and an annual conference which draws outstanding speakers and presenters from the military, the field of education, and from military parents. New programs are being conceived almost daily, and a highly qualified, innovative staff, and a host of extraordinary volunteers support existing initiatives and respond to new opportunities...for the sake of the child.
