Sponsorship

To help prepare sponsors for success, the Sponsorship Program provides training and access to important information and resources that can help newcomers master their move. The Sponsorship Program helps sponsors fulfill their responsibilities, which may include:

• Contacting the service member and family with an introductory email
• Staying in contact with the service member throughout the moving process
• Sending information about the new community and duty assignment, responding to questions and providing information about resources
• Confirming transportation and lodging arrangements
• Helping with post office arrangements
• Meeting service members and family members upon arrival
• Going with service members to unit check-in point
• Introducing service members to the Military and Family Support Center and loan closet, if it’s available
• Familiarizing service members and families with the installation and key locations, like the commissary

Note: Responsibilities may vary based on service-specific policies and guidance. Make sure to check with your service branch for sponsor training requirements.

Overall, the Sponsorship Program aims to:

• Provide newcomers with a sense of belonging
• Ease the transition for inbound service members or civilians and their family members
• Increase productivity of service members and loved ones
• Help newcomers make informed decisions
• Cultivate new friendships
• Improve morale

For more information on the Sponsorship Program, contact your installation Military and Family Support Center.

Sponsorship is also available for youth. Installation youth sponsorship programs help military-connected youth make a successful transition to a new community. Primarily directed to preteen and teenaged youth, installation youth programs/centers provide information and materials on programs and services available at their new location. Where available, youth can exchange emails, talk on the phone or chat online with other youth. The youth program staff at your new installation can offer more information on installation youth sponsorship programs.

You can also contact your installation School Liaison Program office for information about school-based youth sponsorship programs such as Anchored4Life and Student2Student. These peer-to-peer programs help your student adjust to and navigate their new school.

If your child would like to become a youth sponsor, contact your installation School Liaison Program or youth program/center.

The Total Army Sponsorship Program (TASP) is a system to help commanders exercise their basic responsibility for the successful reception and integration of Soldiers and Families into their unit, installation, facility, and community.  Sponsorship is a commander's program where success can be measured by the level of involvement by a Soldier’s chain of command and sponsors. Sponsorship begins when the inbound military members and civilian employees are in receipt of assignment instructions and continues until the military member(s) has become an integral member of the command and is fully cognizant of all policies, installation services, and introduction to the Korean culture.  The sponsorship program is designed to ensure all newcomers have a positive first impression feeling like a member of the Organization.  To obtain sponsorship information for active duty military members send an email to 8A G1 sponsorship group mailbox: usarmy.humphreys.8-army.mbx.g1-tasp-korea@army.mil or call DSN 315-755-2703/0270, Intl 82-503-355-2703/0270.  To obtain sponsorship information for civilian employees contact Civilian Personnel Advisory Center (CPAC), call DSN 757-2007 or Intl 82-503-357-2007.