Deployment & Mobilization Readiness

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Pre-deployment/Mobilization & Stability & Support Operations (SSO’s)

Provides support and assistance to unit commanders in establishing Family Readiness Groups and orientation for reserve component units and their families about available assistance upon unit activation and individual mobilization. Staff is available to assist single parents, dual military couple, and dual emergency–essential civilian couples in developing family care plans for deployment. .

• Family Assistance Plan  Addresses all levels and phases of deployment or mobilization and SSO’s for the installation. The Family Assistance Plan includes the services offered to families, Selfridge Community Service (SCS) and other agency’s roles and responsibilities, resources (manpower and dollars), and projected needs during deployment. The plan also establishes a 24 hour family assistance center with an 800 phone number, provides support to survivors and waiting families, and assists relocating family members.
• Installation Contingency Plan - Provides plans for the installation. Includes the Family Assistance Plan and branch specific requirements during mobilization or deployment.
• Support Group/Orientation - Assists Family Readiness (aka Support) Groups (FRGs/ FSGs) with training, resource materials, homecoming and reunion activities, information and referral. Provides published FRG literature. Units may request assistance as needed.
• Deployment/Mobilization & Stability & Support Operations (SSO’s) - Provides support to families during deployment and mobilization.
• Waiting Family Program - Assists registered families of deployed service members or those who are geographically separated due to an unaccompanied tour of duty, extended TDY, deployment, mobilization, or repatriation. Registration/notification is required. Provides personalized assistance and close monitoring of family members to ensure resolution of problems, provides necessary information, and makes referrals to appropriate agencies or other resources. See also Army One Source below
• Military OneSource - Helps any service member or family members deal with life's issues. Trained consultants are available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year. You can call within the U.S. (800-342-9647), or internationally (either toll free 800-3429-6477, using the applicable access code, or collect 484-530-5947) and speak to a master's level consultant or go online to access information or email a consultant at: http://www.militaryonesource.com/

You can access informative articles, helpful tools, audio tips on hundreds of specific topics, and much more. For additional Information, call Selfridge Community Service (SCS) at 586-239-5903/4475/5949 or send an email to scs@us.army.mil.

• Army One Source (AOS) AOS is a 24-hour, seven-day-a-week toll-free information and referral telephone service available to active duty and demobilized National Guard and Reserve soldiers, deployed civilians and their families worldwide. AOS provides information ranging from every day concerns to deployment/reintegration issues. Additionally, if there is a need for face-to-face counseling, AOS will provide referrals to professional civilian counselors for assistance. OCONUS face-to-face counseling is provided via existing Medical Treatment Facility-contracted marriage and family counselors. To reach AOS, simply call the following telephone numbers: CONUS 1-800-464-8107, OCONUS (country access code), 800-464-81077 (all eleven digits must be dialed). AOS Web address: http://www.armyonesource.com

• Post Deployment Briefings - Provides information to assist families with reunion. Includes support groups or workgroups that help with family unification problems or successes.

• Unit Rear Detachments - Provides training to unit rear detachments on family assistance and community resources during deployment or mobilization. Assistance is also provided for families in their units.

• Family Readiness Group - Assists Family Readiness/Support Groups (FRGs/FSGs) with training, resource materials, homecoming and reunion activities, information and referral. Provides published FRG literature. Units may request assistance as needed.

• Operation R.E.A.D.Y. - (Resources for Educating About Deployment and You) – Provides training module with practical instructions pertaining to ongoing readiness. Includes topics such as “Understanding and Planning for Military Separation and Pre-deployment Ongoing Readiness,” “Coping with Separation,” and “Financial Planning.” The materials are designed to support unit commanders in preparing service members, civilian employees, and their families for military operations.

For more information http://www.armycommunityservice.org/vacs_deployment/data/modules/pbm/rendered/operation_ready.asp

• Repatriation Support - Assists family members who are in a safe haven status who have been evacuated or forced to return early from an area outside of the continental U.S. Other Deployment Sites