Military Families

Coaching Into Care provides a “coaching” service for family and friends of Veterans who see that their Veteran needs help. Coaching involves helping the caller figure out how to motivate their Veteran to seek services. The service is free and provided by licensed clinical social workers and psychologists. The goal of the service is to help the Veteran and family members find the appropriate services in their community.

The National Fatherhood Initiative provides resources to military fathers and their families to prepare them for deployment and post deployment reunion.

The AFRG is a secure website that provides military family members with tools to access documents, view photos/videos, participate in forums, and gain important information about the Army unit that their Soldier/DA Civilian belongs to 24/7 from anywhere in the world.

The focus of this program is to help Air Force spouses acclimate to the Air Force and military environment.

The transferability option of the Post 9/11 G.I. Bill allows service members to transfer unused benefits to their spouses or dependent children.

Provides $2000 in grants to selected sons and daughters of active duty, Title 10 AGR/Reserve, Title 32 AGR performing full-time active duty, retired, retired reserve and deceased Air Force members; spouses (stateside) of active duty members and Title 10 AGR/Reservists; and surviving spouses of deceased personnel for their undergraduate studies. 

The Spouse Employment Program provides entry-level job training to AD Air Force spouses.

AER is the Army’s own financial assistance organization. It provides financial assistance to dependents of soldiers on extended active duty leave, family members of eligible reserve soldiers and national guard members, family members of eligible retired soldiers and reservists, and widows, widowers and orphans of Soldiers who died while on active duty or after retirement. AER provides interest-free loans service members and immediate family members in need of financial assistance. 

The Falcon Loan provides up to $750 in financial emergency help for basic living expenses (rent, utilities, food), car repairs, emergency travel, or other approved needs.