Military and Family Support Center

Military and Family Support Centers provide information, education and support programs to help balance the demands of military life. Offerings include:

• Deployment support to assist you and your family during all phases of the deployment cycle. Learn more about deployment support.
• Relocation assistance to help you prepare for an upcoming move and get settled into your new location. Learn more about the military Relocation Assistance Program.
• Confidential non-medical clinical counseling provides support for a wide range of issues from marital conflicts and stress management to coping with grief and deployment adjustments Learn more about confidential non-medical counseling.
• Personal and family life education assists with developing knowledge and skills to help you navigate your mobile military life.
• Personal financial readiness assists you and your family in building and maintaining your financial readiness.
• Employment assistance supports career exploration, education, training and licensing, career connections and employment readiness for military spouses, transitioning service members, and other family members. Learn more about the Spouse Education and Career Opportunities program, or SECO.
• Information and referral can assist you in identifying and clarifying needs and locating and connecting to services and programs available both on and off your installation.
• Morale, Welfare and Recreation, or MWR services provide lots of ways for you to connect with friends and others for entertainment, rest and relaxation — all at reduced or no cost. Learn more about MWR programs and services.
• The Transition Assistance Program provides the information, skills and knowledge necessary for a successful transition from military to civilian life. Learn more about transition assistance programs and resources.

Military and Family Support Centers may provide other programs such as the following:

Exceptional Family Member Program

Family Advocacy Program

New Parent Support Program

Federal Voting Assistance Program

Services may vary by location and installation. Use the Search tool to find contact information for your installation Military and Family Support Center. Just enter your installation name, Zip code or state.

Family Advocacy

Clinical Counseling

Short-term, non-medical counseling is available to help military personnel and their family members with problems in daily living (difficulty adjusting to the military, work related stressors, marital discord, parenting issues, personal crisis and grief). Brief, solution-focused therapy is provided by licensed counselors for individuals (including children ages 4-17), couples, families and groups. Clinical counseling services provide an avenue for obtaining private and confidential counseling assistance in a non-medical environment.

Family Advocacy

Family Advocacy Program is a command driven program to provide safety planning, intervention, assessment, treatment and services for service members and their families involved in incidents of child abuse, child neglect, domestic violence including intimate partner abuse. The goals of FAP are prevention, victim safety and support, rehabilitative interventions, accountability and consistent and appropriate responses to reports.

Sailor Assistance Intercept for Life (SAIL)

Sailor Assistance and Intercept for Life provides rapid assistance, ongoing case management, care coordination and reintegration assistance for Sailors identified as having experienced a suicide-related behavior (SRB). This program provides services in the 90 days following the SRB, the period of highest risk for subsequent SRB. SAIL is designed to supplement mental health treatment.