MILITARY AND FAMILY READINESS

Military and Family Readiness is a network of programs and services operated by the Defense Department and other federal, state, and community-based agencies and organizations. The Military Family Readiness System promotes military family well-being by offering programs and services that enhance family readiness, resilience and quality of life. Collaboration and integration across the system promotes positive outcomes for service members and their families across the domains of military family readiness, including career, social, financial, health and community engagement.

The Military Family Readiness System supports every service member and family member, regardless of activation status or location, in person, by phone and online. To locate your nearest center, please go to the Military and Family Center Locator.

For more information on services we provide, please select from one of the buttons below.  

Military and Family Readiness Services

Family Support

Child and Youth Programs The Department of the Air Force Child and Youth Programs assist military and civilian personnel in balancing the competing demands of the mission and family life by catering programs and services for eligible children and youth from birth through 18 years of age.

Spouse State Licensure Moving across state lines creates barriers to career longevity, and those obstacles are heightened by state and career-specific professional license regulations. Licensure portability refers to the ability to transfer a professional license from one state or U.S. jurisdiction to another so that a professional can continue their occupation after relocation.

Spouse Employment Fact Sheet Accelerating the development of interstate compacts to support professional license reciprocity for Military Spouses. 

Commissary Fact Sheet We are changing the commissary funding model to ensure the Defense Commissary Agency can provide the greatest savings possible to patrons. This action cuts grocery prices at the register to achieve at least 25% savings for commissary patrons.

Moving Fact Sheet The Military OneSource PCS & Military Moves page connects service members and their families to everything they need to master PCS moves, from making a move request to getting support for all areas of their move. 

Dislocation Allowance Fact Sheet Dislocation Allowance is a single payment intended to cover the cost service members incur when relocating their household for a PCS move. 

Expanded Military Parental Leave The Expanded Military Parental Leave Program builds on the Defense Department’s support of military families by streamlining and enhancing parental leave.

MILITARY AND FAMILY NEWS

  • Military spouses: Mission success relies on them too

    “Military spouses are very unique and resilient. A military spouse wears many hats and in most scenarios, they are wearing multiple hats at one time to show their support for their family and the military.” Sharon Brown, Sheppard Enlisted Spouses Club vice president, a military spouse of 15 years,

  • Air Force Medical Service embraces patient centeredness

    The Air Force Medical Service is working to increase patient-and family-centered care throughout all operations. Patient centeredness is critical to AFMS’ delivery of safe, effective, high quality care. But what is patient centeredness?“Patient centeredness is respecting our patients’ preferences,

  • Wingman University sends Schriever back to school

    Military and civilian Airmen got a chance to step away from their offices and workspaces to become students at Wingman University Thursday, May 12, 2016, at Schriever Air Force Base, Colorado.

  • Resilience Training Assistants and their impact on CAF

    Do you want to acquire the tools to build and sustain a culture of comprehensively fit Airmen and families? Do you want to help address everyday stressors through local training and offer resilience skills to help enable your wingmen, your co-workers and family member to optimize performance of

  • Strengthening ties – building teamwork

    Airmen from the 49th Comptroller Squadron at Holloman Air Force, N.M., get instructions on how to use climbing equipment safely during a resiliency training exercise here in April. The staff at outdoor recreation hosts resiliency training exercises to help build team cohesion among Airmen. (U.S. Air

  • EOD team home after six-month deployment

    Four reservists from the 419th Fighter Wing’s explosive ordnance disposal flight returned April 27 from a six-month deployment to Southwest Asia.   While overseas, the reservists worked with active-duty counterparts deployed from Hill Air Force Base’s 775th EOD flight. The Airmen responded to

  • Keesler celebrates Child Pride Day

    Col. Michele Edmondson, 81st Training Wing commander, delivers opening remarks with her daughter, Jacqueline McGowan, during Child Pride Day at marina park April 23, 2016, Keesler Air Force Base, Miss. Keesler families attended the annual event which featured activities, demonstrations and

  • Heartlink program welcomes spouses

    Col. DeAnna Burt (left), 50th Space Wing commander, meets with Schriever Air Force Base spouses during the Heartlink tour at Schriever Air force Base, Colorado, Friday, April 22, 2016. Heartlink is an Airman and Family Readiness program that allows Schriever spouses to learn about the installation,

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