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Offers a wide variety of services including Family Advocacy Program: Offer new parent support services such as parenting classes, play groups and home visits; relationship enhancement classes; family violence prevention classes such as stress and anger management; and victim advocacy assistance and prevention programs. Military Family Life Consultants: Offer counseling by licensed professional counselors. Counseling is short term and focused on problem solving. Will refer to the local community for longer term counseling if needed. Mobilization and Deployment Support: Helps service members and their families deal with the challenges before, during and after military deployment. Also offer training on FRG basics. - Relocation Assistance: Offers a Newcomer's Orientation, Tour of the Fort, individual PCS planning and overseas orientation, Foriegn Born Spouse Support, and Lending closet which provides relocating families with pots, pans, dishes, protable cribs, etc. to borrow until their household goods arrive. - Financial Readiness: Offers a wide variety of basic money management classes and individual budget counseling. Provides proactive classes on car buying, house buying, saving and investing and consumer awareness programs. Army Emergency Relief (AER) loans and grants available. Emergency Food Vouchers are also available. - Employment Readiness: Offers classes and assistance with job search, career exploration, resume writing, interviewing techniques, applications and cover letters, and dressing for success. - Exceptional Family Member Program: ACS is a contact point for military families with special needs such as chronic illness or incapacity, mental illness or learning disabilities. Education regarding this program is provided as well as referral to local resources to assure family needs are handled in the most effective manner. Respite care is also available. - Volunteer Program: Volunteer opportunities are available around ACS and on post. Information is available. - Army Family Team Building (AFTB): Three levels of classes provided. Level I provides training on basic military concepts such as Family Readiness Groups, financial readiness, problem solving and community and military resources. Level II expands on those skills with classes on how to manage deployment stress, communicating effectively and developing personal skills. Level III focuses on professional growth, identifying strengths and weaknesses, and building on what makes one an effective leader. - Soldier Family Assistance Center (SFAC): Offers support and assistance to Warriors in Transition (WTs) and their Families by providing social, financial, personal and pastoral services.
Work with military/service members, veterans and their families for referrals and assistance for (but not limited to) ID cards and DEERS TRICARE - Financial Management Referral - Employment Assistance and Resume Writing - Legal Referral - Community/Family Outreach - Crisis Intervention/Counseling Referral
Military OneSource is a confidential Department of Defense-funded program providing comprehensive information on every aspect of military life at no cost to active duty, Guard and Reserve Component members, and their families regardless of their activation status. Information includes, but is not limited to, deployment, reunion, relationships, grief, spouse employment and education, parenting and childhood, and much more.

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Military Family Service/Support Centers
Provides career assessment and job assistance for active military and their family members.
Provides supportive services for new parents in the military community. Offers prenatal education, developmental screenings, parenting skills, and play groups.
Provides financial counseling services to the U.S. Navy community.
Provides information on local programs and refers military families and DoD civilians to the appropriate resources. Provides connection to Military One Source.

Provides resilience training to increase and promote positive behaviors and protective factors that lead to sustained personal readiness and resiliency through training and education. Resilience training enables members to leverage intellectual and emotional skills and behaviors, promoting performance that optimizes long-term health and deployment readiness.

Offers a Suicide Prevention Program to support the Army's goal to minimize suicide behaviors by reducing the risk of suicide among Soldiers, Army Civilians, and Family members. Trainings are focused on early identification and intervention strategies. The programs are designed to increase the overall health and readiness of each Soldier.

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Military Family Service/Support Centers
Suicide Prevention Hotlines
Suicide Counseling
Local resource center for service members and their families, veterans, and retirees.
Counseling Provides short-term counseling for individuals, couples, families, and children of active military. Offers up to 12 sessions (treatment may be extended under certain circumstances). Family Advocacy Program Handles reports of domestic violence, sexual assault, and child abuse involving military members. Provides intervention and treatment services including counseling, case management, and support groups.
Provides accommodations for active military who has a family member with special needs. Ensures the family will be assigned to an area with accessible resources. Helps prepare enrollment forms and forwards them to the Central Screening Committee. Also coordinates with other agencies to provide medical, educational, community, and personal support.
Services include:
-- Assessment and referral to on- and off-base agencies.
-- Family development education programs.
-- Support during family separation.
-- Financial management, education, and counseling.
-- Transition assistance for member separating or retiring from the military.
-- Employment program for family members and transitioning personnel.
-- Air Force Aid Society emergency loan services for Air Force, Army, and Navy relief.
-- Relocation assistance for families moving in or out.

Assists military families by identifying and enrolling family members with special medical or educational needs, finding out what services are available at current or new duty stations, and supporting families with information, referrals when appropriate, and non-clinical case management to access services.

Services

Military Family Service/Support Centers
Case/Care Management
Local resource center for service members and their families, veterans, and retirees.

The purpose of the Yellow Ribbon Reintegration Program (YRRP) is to provide support and resources for Soldiers and their Families to assist them in achieving a successful deployment cycle. This assistance is provided by creating experiences that coincide with each stage of the deployment journey.

Pre-Deployment, as Soldiers and families anticipate extended separation the focus is on being prepared and supported by ensuring awareness of vital information and resources to help throughout the deployment process.

During-Deployment, the experience during the deployment changes to one focused more on support and connectedness so that families don't feel they are enduring the deployment alone while also preparing them for the inevitable reintegration.

Post-Deployment, upon the Soldiers' return, the focus shifts to the reintegration of the Soldier to the family unit and assists them as they resume family life and normalize adjusted routines.

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Military Transition Assistance Programs
Military Family Service/Support Centers
Local resource center for service members and their families, veterans, and retirees.
Provides assistance to veterans and their families who file claims with the Veteran's Administration (VA).

Family support network channels requests for any type of assistance including financial to Legion Posts throughout the United States. Callers are advised to give their home zip code and a call-back telephone number where they can be reached.

Services

Military Family Service/Support Centers
Veteran Benefits Assistance
Work with military/service members, veterans and their families for referrals and assistance for (but not limited to) housing, counseling, employment assistance, crisis intervention, and health care.
Serves as a military support center providing services such as coordination across base agencies, educational programs, support and services for families throughout the permanent change of station (PCS) process, deployments and more.
Local resource center for service members and their families, veterans, and retirees.

Services

Military Family Service/Support Centers

Offers to help create a detailed strategy to manage finances throughout the military career and beyond. It includes budgeting, savings, debt management, insurance, retirement, tax and transition planning. Aimed at optimizing resources, mitigating risks and achieving financial goals, it's essential for stability and security.


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Military Transition Assistance Programs
Military Family Service/Support Centers
Personal Financial Counseling

Offers to help prepare and empower military personnel and their families in Iowa to meet the challenges of military and civilian life through training, resources, hands-on assistance and education. Offering essential services such as, crisis intervention, legal and community resources, information and more.

Solider Family Readiness Specialists

Council Bluffs: (712) 325-1218 ext. 18204

Waterloo: (515) 331-5589

Iowa City: (319) 337-9573 ext. 19012

Sioux City: (712) 252-4347 ext. 18030

Boone: (515) 727-3629

Davenport: (563) 391-6441 ext. 19221

JFHQ: (515) 334-2742

Camp Dodge:

(515) 331-5842

(515) 252-4192

(515) 252-4758

(515) 334-2757

Services

Military Family Service/Support Centers
Social Services for Military Personnel
Local resource center for service members and their families, veterans, and retirees.

Services

Military Family Service/Support Centers
Local resource center for service members and their families, veterans, and retirees.

Services

Military Family Service/Support Centers
Work with military/service members, veterans and their families for referrals and assistance for (but not limited to) - ID cards and Deers - TRICARE - Financial Management Referral - Employment Assistance and Resume Writing - Legal Referral - Community/Family Outreach - Crisis Intervention/Counseling Referral