FAMILY READINESS OFFERINGS – WE ARE HERE FOR YOU
You are family!! Every Guardsmen has personal concerns whether it surrounds parents, siblings, spouses, significant others, or a neighbor. It is extremely important to recognize that family is all-inclusive and includes anyone a Guardsmen considers his or her family. Every effort should be made to ensure everyone in a unit is ready to deploy whenever and wherever required, and the Guardsmen’s family has unit contacts and resources available 24/7 during all phases of the military career.
The following services are available at NO COST, additional services may be offered to meet the needs of Commanders, Guardsmen and their Family members, Retirees and volunteers:
Obtain your local Family Readiness Group contacts from your Guardsmen or their unit
- Mobility and deployment assistance — Services designed to help one adjust to all phases of the deployment cycle
- Relocation assistance — Information and education to help with questions related to moving to include moving costs, housing options, spouse employment opportunities, schools, community orientation and more
- Personal financial management — Services that provide tools and information to help achieve financial goals and address financial challenges (Topics include consumer education, budgeting and debt liquidation, retirement planning, savings and investment counseling.)
- Spouse education and career services — Services include career exploration opportunities, education and training, employment readiness assistance and employment connections
- Family life education — Education and enrichment services that focus on helping families build and maintain healthy relationships and strengthen problem-solving skills
- Emergency family assistance — Services that promote short- and long-term recovery and the return to a stable environment after an emergency
- Domestic abuse prevention and response services — Education, support services and treatment to help promote healthy and safe intimate relationships, reduce the occurrence of domestic abuse and address domestic abuse when it occurs
- Adult and Child abuse prevention and response services — Services that help promote positive parent-child relationships, prevent child abuse and address abuse when it occurs
- Exceptional Family Member Program support — For families with special needs, education and assistance related to the Exceptional Family Member Program enrollment and assignment coordination process, non-clinical case management and relocation support
- Non-medical individual and family counseling — Short-term, confidential non-medical counseling services to address topics related to personal growth and positive functioning
- Transition assistance — Services that prepare separating service members and their families to re-enter civilian life
- Information and referral — Information designed to help you become familiar with and access the range of services available through the Family Readiness System