By planning ahead, you can be sure your personal matters will be taken care of during your absence.
Deployment/ Mobilization Readiness
Stability and Support Operations
DEPLOYMENT/ MOBILIZATION and STABILITY AND SUPPORT OPERATIONS READINESS
OUR MISSION
Whether you're a single soldier without dependents, or a soldier with a spouse and/or dependents, your Personal Readiness Posture is as important as your military mission readiness. By planning ahead, you can be sure your personal matters will be taken care of during your absence.
Family readiness, assistance and support services are provided to families of Active Component and Reserve Component (RC) forces and emergency-essential civilians in support of military operations—deployment or mobilization and SSOs (includes mass casualties, evacuation and natural disasters)— to enhance unit cohesion and increase readiness.
Preplanning for family assistance ensures that a comprehensive, realistic, effective and coordinated assistance delivery system is in place prior to military operations.
OUR READINESS MISSION
- Assistance and Support Services to families of soldiers and emergency-essential civilians
- Includes Support Services during mass casualties, evacuation and natural disasters
- Family Readiness Group Training and Support
- Family Readiness Center Operations
- Family Assistance Center Operations
- Deployment Readiness Information Fairs
- Deployment Readiness Briefings
- Deployment Readiness Handbook
- Operation R.E.A.D.Y. (Resources for Educating About Deployment and You)
FAMILY ASSISTANCE CENTER
- Activated during a major deployment. It serves as the resource center for emergency help to families while the sponsor is away.
- Emergency needs are those that are urgent and require immediate attention, as distinguished form those that are desirable, but do not require immediate action. Some services which will be available to assist in emergency situations when families have no one else to help them include: childcare, local transportation, food, financial assistance, crisis counseling, information and referral.
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These agencies will work together to provide family assistance:
- ACS (includes AER)
- American Red Cross
- Child Development Service (CDS)
- Chaplains
- Housing
- Transportation
- Provost Marshal
- Mental Health
- The center will be open regularly scheduled hours. If the need is determined, the FRC will be open 24 hours a day, seven days a week. As needs change, so will the operating hours.
OPERATION R.E.A.D.Y.
Operation
Resources for Educating About Deployment and You: Workshops designed for
soldiers and families to help ensure that soldiers and families are prepared for
deployments and Army lifestyles. Contact your USC to schedule an appointment for
Operation READY training.
Pre-deployment Ongoing Readiness
- Understanding and planning for Military Separation
- Coping with Separation
- Financial Planning
Post-deployment Homecoming and Reunions Readiness
- Reunion for Soldiers
- Reunion for Families
- Celebration Planning
- Communication Techniques
- Reunion Stress Management
REAR DETACHMENT COMMANDER TRAINING
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The RDC does the
following for Families of Deployed Soldiers:
- Provides a link between the Family Readiness Group and the deployed Unit.
- Helps spouses find assistance and solutions to problems.
- Distributes information to family members as soon as it becomes available.
- Ensures that all leader's names and addresses are accessible at all times.
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THE RDC COURSE
OFFERS PRESENTATIONS ON THE FOLLOWING TOPICS
- RDC duties relating to Family Radiness, Support and Assistance
- Chaplain Services
- Postal Operations
- Basic Finance and Accounting procedures and services
- Property Accountability
- Army Emergency Relief
- Budget counseling & Financial Assistance
- LEGAL SERVICESLegal Services
- FAMILY ADVOCACY PROGRAMFamily Advocacy Program
- Tips on providing Information & Referral Services
- Crisis Intervention Training
- Casualty Assistance, Sponsorship Program, and other Services provided by the Adjutant General.
PERSONAL/FAMILY DEPLOYMENT READINESS
Although extended deployments are never easy on a soldier or family, the hardships need not be increased by failure to plan ahead. A carefully prepared and executed pre-deployment checklist can save you and your family from giant headaches in the future. It is very important for you to have certain documents in your possession. Military spouses are often required to take over the family during the sponsor’s absence; therefore, it's important that both of you sit down together to gather information and documents named in this checklist. You are encouraged to keep originals or copies of all listed documents in a special container (safety deposit box) in a location you can find immediately and is known to both you and the sponsor. Both of you must have access to this location.
For more information on this program please contact
Deployment/Mobilization Readiness Coordinator
(870)540-3217
DSN: 966-3217