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 is now accessible in Army Career Tracker to assist soldiers and DA civilians during the transition to their new assignment. Commanders now have the ability to guarantee the successful assignment of individual sponsors through the streamlined sponsorship process found only in ACT. TASP ensures that incoming soldiers are assigned sponsors prior to reporting to their new installations. Obtaining a sponsor reduces the stress of reporting to a new unit, enhances resiliency and improves readiness among soldiers and family members.

It is important to ensure you have Common Access Card access during your PCS movement to maintain in communications with your sponsor. If you do not have CAC access, you can use your DS Logon during leave period, TDY enroute, or PCS travel. It may also be helpful is share a civilian email address with your TASP sponsor.

If you are on orders to Korea and are less than 30 days from your PCS report date, or if you have not been contacted by your sponsor, contact a Korea sponsorship Coordinator at usarmy.humphreys.8-army.mbx.g1-tasp-korea@army.mil.

Additional contact information for a specific unit be found on the Eighth Army TASP page.