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.

Youth Sponsorship Program

The Fort Campbell Child and Youth Services, Middle School and Teen Program provides a youth sponsorship program that helps relocated youth become acclimated with their new home and school. For more information, contact School Support Services at 270-798-9219 or 270-412-8429 or access the Fort Campbell School Support Services website to email and complete a request for a sponsor form for your youth. Resources available for making the move easier for military kids can be found on Military OneSource.

Total Army Sponsorship Program

Follow the steps below to request a sponsor through ACT:

All soldiers in the grades E1-E6, WO1-CW, and O1-03 are automatically assigned a sponsor within 96 hours of being placed on assignment. The Fort Campbell Sponsorship Team works 24 hours behind Human Resources Command and conducts an in-bound (gains) roster pull each duty day and will reach out to all in-bound soldiers immediately. Sponsorship is optional for the grades E7-E9, CW3-CW5 and O4-O6 unless the senior commander determines that sponsorship is required within their areas of responsibility depending on location, type of unit and uniqueness or complexity of adapting to that location. If senior leaders wish to request a sponsor, they may contact the Fort Campbell Sponsorship NCOIC at 931-346-9973 or via email. The Fort Campbell sponsorship team covers the following units:

• Sponsorship NCOIC - Contact by phone at 931-346-9773 or via email.
• 1MBCT / DEB - Contact by phone at 931-542-7586 or via email.
• 2MBCT / DMIB - Contact by phone at 931-218-8718 or via email.
• 3MBCT / DSIG - Contact by phone at 931-542-7619 or via email.
• 101 DIVARTY / HHBN - Contact by phone at 931-542-7435 or via email.
• 101 DSB / 716th - Contact by phone at 931-542-7436 or via email.
• 101 CAB - Contact by phone at 931-218-8716 or via email.
• 5th SF GRP - Contact by phone at 931-677-2808 or via email.

If you're on orders to Fort Campbell and to a unit not mentioned above, then your unit doesn't participate in the current sponsorship program and doesn't have a representative assigned to the sponsorship team. If you fall in this demographic and still wish to have a sponsor, contact the NCOIC listed above and a sponsor will be assigned to you.