The Work-Life Family Advocacy Specialist, serves active duty
members, family members, retirees, reservists, Auxiliarists, and federal
civilian employees stationed in the D14 area of responsibility. The
goal of these services is to help members balance their "work" and "home" lives.
The program is for those who have the insight to know when their lives are "out
of balance" or who find themselves in unacceptable situations. Family
Advocacy Programs attempt to resolve work-life issues through education and
training, and by providing individuals with information about and referrals to
appropriate federal, DoD, state and local resources.
Assistance and
referral are provided in cases of:
Divorce
Marriage
Difficulties
Custody Questions
Psychiatric Referrals
Crisis
Intervention
Early Return of Dependents
Humanitarian Assignments
Special Needs
Management Issues
Parenting Issues
Personal Stress
Management
Child Supervision Issues
Family Planning
Family
Violence
Child, Spouse, Elder, and Sibling Abuse and Neglect
Command
and family education and training is available in the following areas:
Parenting
Anger Management
Spouse, Elder, and Sibling Abuse
Child
Abuse and Neglect
Special Needs
Couples Communication
ISC
Honolulu Work-Life Overview
The ISC Honolulu Family Advocacy Specialist
has a Masters Degree in Social Work and is a state licensed social worker who
serves as an intervention and prevention specialist. He has many
years of experience working with families who find themselves overwhelmed by
stress and/or are in a traumatic relationship.
The Family
Advocacy Program coordinates and develops the following
activities:
Receives, assesses, and manages reports of spouse, child,
elder, or sibling abuse. Also provides prevention classes and
services such as: Parenting Skills Training, Couples Communication Classes,
Stress and Anger Management, and much more.
When a case of family
violence is substantiated (believed to have occurred) the Family Advocacy
Specialist will manage the case, obtaining appropriate professional services to
prevent future family violence, in coordination with the command.
The
Family Advocacy Program supports the National Committee on the Prevention of
Child Abuse "Blue Ribbon Campaign." Each year the Coast Guard Community joins
the state of Hawaii in wearing and displaying a small blue ribbon on a shirt, a
car antenna, or a door knob to show support for and our desire to help prevent
child abuse and neglect.
Contact the Work-Life Family Advocacy Specialist
for information and referrals or any time you feel out of control, sad, lonely,
angry, and/or unloved and begin your "option search".