The Family Advocacy Program consists of five components:
OUTREACH PROGRAM: The Family Advocacy Outreach Manager implements primary and secondary prevention services, including Anger Management classes, Boystown Common Sense Parenting classes and a resource library.
NEW PARENTS SUPPORT PROGRAM: Designed to provide education, support and information to first time parents. Services are provided from conception through three years. Services are also provided to families with unique circumstances, such as blended families, teen parenting and medically complicated pregnancies.
SPECIAL NEEDS IDENTIFICATION AND ASSIGNMENT COORDINATION PROCESS:
(Formerly known as the Exceptional Family Member Program (EFMP)
MISSION: The Special Needs Identification and Assignment Coordination Process promotes readiness by the identification of family members with special medical and/or educational needs. It ensures the availability of necessary services, to address the special needs of family members, thereby maintaining active duty world-wide sustainability.
PURPOSE: The Special Needs Identification and Assignment Coordination Process identifies active duty service members with family members with special medical and/or educational needs, helps those families to obtain information on required services, and ensures they have access to necessary services if reassigned. The process also assists the Military Personnel Flight (MPF) in updating the Assignment Limitation "Code Q" that is assigned to the sponsor for the purpose of ensuring service availability upon Permanent Change of Station (PCS). Therefore, special needs identification is mandatory for active duty sponsors whose family members meet identification criteria established by the Department of Defense (DOD).
FAMILY ADVOCACY STRENGTH-BASED THERAPY (FAST): FAST services are voluntary counseling services available to families that are at risk for family violence. FAST services to eligible families will include: psychosocial assessments; intervention plans developed in collaboration with the family members; information and referral services; crisis intervention; and brief solution-focused therapy.
FAMILY MALTREATMENT: Designed to identify, report, assess and provide therapy for active duty members and their families referred due to maltreatment (child abuses and/or domestic violence) and to arrange for other necessary medical and non-medical services.