Relocation Assistance

Your Military and Family Support Center provides relocation assistance to help make PCS moves as smooth as possible. Resources include:

• PCS planning: Most relocation assistance programs offer consultations to help you with the moving process. If this your first military move, your first time moving overseas or you have challenging or complex circumstances contact your installation Relocation Assistance Program as soon as possible for support.
• Plan My Move: An online Defense Department relocation tool that provides you with customizable checklists and links to helpful resources for the tasks ahead.
• Military OneSource: A website and call center that offer 24/7 support for moving information and resources. Learn more about PCS basics and download this fact sheet 7 Steps to Make Your Household Goods Move a Smart Move. For comprehensive moving resources and information, including Defense Personal Property log in details, visit Moving Your Personal Property.
• Workshops and briefings: Workshops vary by location. You may find classes on housing options, moving with children, moving with pets and more.
• Predeparture briefings: These sessions provide essential information about your move and may be required for some populations.
• Special needs: If you have a child or family member enrolled in the Exceptional Family Member Program, contact your installation EFMP-Family Support office to assist you.
• Settling-in services: Look for welcome programs or local area tours that may offered. Overseas services may include introductory language classes and cultural awareness activities.
• Foreign-born spouse support: Assistance includes information and referral to resources such as immigration and naturalization.
• Emergency assistance: Sometime emergencies occur while moving. The Military and Family Support Center has the resources to provide emergency financial assistance, as well as information and referrals.
• Authorized housing flexibility options: Eligible service members with PCS orders may be entitled to flexibilities such as extended stays in government housing and early housing eligibility. Contact your military personnel office for more information.
• Spouse licensure reimbursement: Your service branch may reimburse spouses up to $1,000 for relicensure and certification costs resulting from relocations or PCS moves. See this Military OneSource article Transferring Your Professional License for more information and specific service branch policies.

Patrick Space Force Base's Relocation Assistance Program increases the knowledge and skills needed by military members, Department of Defense civilians, and their families to accomplish the most successful and least stressful permanent change of station possible. Our PCS Loan Locker, located in the Patrick Military and Family Readiness Center, Bldg. 722, provides basic dish packs including pots, pans, dishes, etc. as well as folding tables and chairs to inbound and outbound personnel and their families. A copy of your PCS orders is required for loaner items. At the M&FRC we also have computers, a fax machine, and a copy machine available for official use.

Air & Space Force families just arriving to Patrick SFB are eligible for the Child Care for PCS program. The program provides Air & Space Force members 20 FREE hours of child care (per child) in a Patrick SFB-licensed family child home, or the Child Development Center (CDC,) within 60 days of your arrival/departure. A copy of PCS orders is required. All immunizations must be up-to-date in order to utilize. 

Installation-Specific Information

The Patrick SFB Relocation Assistance Program prides itself in personalizing its programs to meet the needs of members and their families. For relocation assistance, please contact our relocation team at 321-494-5675/5676 or DSN 312-854-5675/5676 and we will help you assess your needs and make sure you have all the assistance possible to help you meet those needs.