Resources
Community Services
Army Community Services
Deployment or Mobilization Stability and Support Readiness
Deployment or mobilization stability and support readiness services include:
- Preplanning for Family assistance to include:
- Family Assistance Center
- Family Readiness Groups (FRGs)
- Rear Detachments
- Family Readiness Support Assistants
- Pre-deployment planning
- Mobilization/deployment support and information
- Post-deployment/mobilization support and training (RESET services)
- Operation Ready (Resources for Educating About Deployment and You)
- Support to unaccompanied Family members evacuated/returned from an overseas area (repatriation assistance)
Soldier and Family Readiness
Services include:
- Family Advocacy Program (FAP)
- Victim Advocacy Program
- Exceptional Family Member Program (EFMP)
- Transitional Compensation Program (TC)
- New Parent Support Program
- Sexual Harassment and Assault Response and Prevention Program (SHARP)
Relocation Readiness
Services include:
- Relocation counseling
- Pre-arrival information
- Post-move newcomer orientation
- Overseas orientation
- Reentry workshops
- Lending Closet
- Services to multicultural Families
- Liaison for United Citizen Immigration Services (USCIS)
- Hearts Apart support to Waiting Families (Outreach services include identification, counseling, and advocacy)
- Sponsorship: Sponsor training of unit sponsorship trainers and/or reactionary sponsors and youth sponsorship.
- Citizen Immigration Services Liaison
Assistance Centers
Services include:
- Support for Survivors
- Support for Wounded and Fallen
Employment Readiness
Services include:
- Up-to-date resource information on available local, national, and international employment opportunities, job market trends, and education and volunteer resources
- Classes and seminars on self-assessment and career exploration, resume writing, interviewing techniques, dressing for success, networking, and entrepreneurship
- Resume critiques
- Career counseling and individual career assessments
- Job fairs and other hiring events
- Teen/youth employment information
- Computers with internet access, resume writing software, and typing tutorials
Exceptional Family Member Program
Services include:
- The Army designed the EFMP to be a comprehensive, coordinated, multi-agency program that provides community support, housing, medical, educational, and personnel services to military Families with an EFM.
- In the Army, there are two sides to the EFMP house: Medical and ACS.
- The Medical side is the core of the program. They not only ensure medical needs are met but also ensure that Soldier’s PCS (permanent change of station…moving from one duty station to another) is to an installation that can support their EFM. “Are the necessary medical resources available at the new installation?”
- The ACS side of the house is geared toward support groups or referrals to outside organizations that can provide assistance.
- For more information on Army EFMP visit: https://myarmybenefits.us.army.mil/benefit-library/federal-benefits/exceptional-family-member-program-(efmp)-?serv=122
- Information on Exceptional Family Member Family Support can also be found on Military One Source. They can help service members and their Families identify and access programs and services including, but not limited to: Information and referrals for military and community services, Education and outreach, Information about available local school and early intervention services, Warm handoffs to the Exceptional Family Member Program at new locations, and Non-clinical case management, including individualized services plans.
Volunteer Programs
Services include:
- Army Family Team Building Program
- Army Family Action Plan Program
- Army Volunteer Corps Coordinator