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.

To request a sponsor, please contact the Sponsor Support Office at 831-656-7848.  You should have a sponsor before arriving to the instillation. Student Services developed a web-based in-processing system. This website process must be completed prior to your arrival and will greatly reduce your in-processing time once you arrive at the Naval Postgraduate School. User IDs and passwords are emailed out approximately two months before the beginning of the quarter. You will need a valid email address when you contact the SSO so that they can respond to you, while in route. Once you have arrived, report to Student Services, located in Herman Hall, Room 33, located in the (basement) of Del Monte Hotel on NPS. The office is open Monday through Thursday 8 a.m.- 4 p.m. and Friday 8:00 am - 2 p.m. Please contact the office prior to arriving as office hours may have changed. Please wear the uniform of the day when arriving. Winter uniforms are required beginning October 1, and summer uniforms are required as of April 1.

Mail in route -- The Student Services Office distributes official mail only. No postal services are provided since it is not an official U.S. Post Office. When notified by email that you have mail to pickup, you'll have five days to do so or the mail will be returned to sender.

Students are required to use their local residence for all personal mail if possible. Combined bachelor quarters residents will need to use the mailing address provided by CBQ personnel check-in. Students who do not have a local residence address or are not residing in CBQ should visit the U.S. Post Office or make the change online to submit a change of address form, (PS Form 3575), or make arrangements to have their mail held until they obtain a local residence address.

Contact the Fleet and Family Support Center for additional information at 831-656-3060.