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A financial education staff provides financial education, training, and counseling that emphasize long-term financial responsibility through instruction on sound money management, debt management, saving, investing, and retirement planning.

The educator is available by appointment to provide individual financial counseling and help with basic financial needs.

“New to the Navy” App
The “New to the Navy” mobile application is for Sailors (Enlisted and Officers) who are fresh out of Boot Camp or Officer Candidate School and ready to report to their first command. The app answers common questions new Sailors may have on pay and personnel matters as they transfer to a school or to their duty station. Available for Apple and Android devices.

Navy ombudsmen are key resources for family members, particularly during deployments. They serve as a liaison between the command team and families within the command. Ombudsmen:

• Provide information and referral to assist families with concerns or issues.
• Regularly communicate and distribute information to and from the command and the unit’s family members.
• Keep the command informed regarding the overall health, morale, and welfare of the families in the command.

Disaster affects hundreds of thousands of people every year. It may happen at your local Navy installation. It may happen to you.

Family Emergency Response is the quick response provided to commands, personnel, and families when they are faced with crisis situations such as natural or manmade disasters, loss of life, disaster evacuation, or war. In the midst or aftermath of an incident, FFSC team members strive to provide the following based on the event:

 

• Setting up a 24-hour Emergency Family Assistance Center, if needed
• Manning the Assistance Center with Fleet & Family Support staff and other agency staff,  as needed
• Consultation
• Crisis intervention
• Debriefings
• Information and referrals
• Work towards restoring mission readiness

Are you and your family ready for an emergency?

Whether you’re part of the general Navy community, the Navy’s emergency management team, or a potential partner in disaster response and recovery, you have a role in planning for emergencies — preparedness is your duty.

Please explore Ready Navy to find information and tools to help you and your family prepare for emergency situations that could arise any time without warning.
Navy Family Accountability and Assessment System (NFAAS)

Navy Family Accountability and Assessment System standardize a method for the Navy to account, manage and monitor the recovery process for personnel and their families affected and/or scattered by a wide-spread catastrophic event. NFAAS provides valuable information to all levels of the Navy chain of command, allowing commanders to make strategic decisions that facilitate a return to stability.

NFAAS allows Navy Personnel to do the following:

 

• Report Accounting Status
• Update Contact/Location information
• View Reference Information
• Complete a Needs Assessment Survey

 

The Family Advocacy Program provides a variety of intervention and treatment models to meet the needs of individual families in reference to child and spouse/partner abuse concerns. Licensed credentialed clinical professionals provide the services. Domestic Abuse Victim Advocates also play a key role in assisting with these services. The program is designed to address the prevention, identification, reporting, intervention, treatment, and follow-up of child and spouse/partner maltreatment. The program has five primary goals:

• Prevention of family violence
• Victim safety planning and protection
• Offender accountability
• Rehabilitative education and counseling
• Community accountability and responsibility for a consistent, appropriate response

The Navy’s Exceptional Family Member Program (EFMP) launched a new mobile application that provides Navy families, doctors, service providers, detailers, and program administrators up-to-date information and resources all in one place.

To access the EFMP app, go to the Navy App Locker at https://www.applocker.navy.mil/#!/apps.  Sailors and family members can use the EFMP app directly from there, or the app can be downloaded to an Android or Apple phone, a computer, or various other mobile devices.

The  Exceptional Family Member Program provides an all-inclusive approach for the community, educational, medical, housing, and personnel services for families with special needs. Enrollment is mandatory for all service members who have family members with special needs. Enrollment ensures the maximum provision of services to the family throughout the service member’s career. Special needs include special medical, dental, mental health, developmental, or educational requirements; the requirement for adaptive equipment assistive technology devices; or services of a wheelchair.

Exceptional Family Member Program liaisons assist families in locating special needs services and resources by identifying local military and civilian resources such as special education assistance, social and support groups, treatment providers, and information about local disability services. Respite care helps military families with children with special needs by providing 40 hours of respite care per month so they can leave the house, go to an appointment, shop, or just rest while knowing that their child is being well cared for.

Benefits to service members, families, and command leadership include:

• Networking, information, referral and resources, and assistance during a permanent change of station moves
• Peace of mind for deployed service members and their families
• Enhances command readiness through support to the service member and family
• Improves retention by providing support to Sailors who may otherwise consider separation in order to best meet their family’s needs
• Decreases costly overseas returns by proactively ensuring that duty assignments are made with special needs taken into consideration