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.

Sponsorship

Permanent duty personnel will receive a sponsor to help transition to their new command. However, students will not be assigned a sponsor. If you receive permanent change of station (PCS) orders and are moving to your gaining command, you should contact your gaining command for a sponsor. Sponsors are not obligated to meet incoming personnel until they arrive at the gaining command.

For the phone number of a specific command, contact the Fleet and Family Support Center (FFSC) at 850-452-5990.

NAS Pensacola will no longer mail Welcome Aboard packages. However, you can still obtain one by contacting a command sponsor or emailing the FFSC at naspffsc@navy.mil, Monday through Friday, 0730 -1600.

NATTC Sponsorship

Contact the NATTC Sponsor Coordinator at 850-452-7022/5859 for more information and directions to the school.

Youth Sponsorship

The Youth Sponsorship Program for NAS Pensacola and Corry Station is called "Anchored for Life."  Children in the military community at NAS Pensacola and Corry Station have volunteered to sponsor other military/Department of Defense children coming into the local area. All have been trained and have been certified as youth sponsors. For more information, or for a youth sponsor contact the NAS Pensacola School Liaison, 850-458-6588, 850-7121-4105 or Youth Centers at 850-452-2296 or https://anchored4life.com/.