Programs Supporting Deployers and Families of Deployed
- Services “Deployment Coupons”
- $10 of Services Gift Certificates for every month deployed
- Issued at redeployment briefings by AFRC upon return home
- Club dues waived for period of deployment
- Deployers take copy of orders to customer service prior to deployment and are not charged while deployed
- Auto Hobby Center’s “We Care About Car Care” program
- AFRC provides spouses of deployed voucher for free oil change
- Stay Connected Kits
- Family communication kits – provided 200+ at December Readiness Fair, SpringFest, and other distribution points at FMP activities
- Give Parents a Break
- For parents under stress due to deployments
- Offered monthly on Saturdays for children ages 6 weeks to 12 years
- FREE – funded by Air Force Aid Society, AFRC referrals required
- Parents Night Out - Shima No Ko 632-0265
- Open to all families
- Offered monthly on Saturdays for children ages 6 weeks to 12 years
- Fee-based hourly care, no referral required
- Hourly Care - Resource and Referral 632-7693
- Open to all families, reservations up to 2 weeks in advance
- Offered daily from 0700-1700 for children ages 6 months to 5 years
- Fee-based hourly care
- Extended Duty Care - Family Child Care 634-3464
- For short-term, emergency child care needs that cannot be met by regular child care
- Children ages 2 weeks to 12 years
- Offered through contracted family child care providers
- FREE – funded by AF Family Member Programs
- Returning Home Care - Family Child Care 634-3464
- 16 hours of child care within 30 days of return from deployment
- Children ages 2 weeks to 12 years
- Offered through contracted family child care providers
- FREE – funded by AF Family Member Programs
- Schilling Community Center Family Programs
- Focused programming to target families with deployed members during the heavy AEF cycle:
- Murder Mystery Dinner Theater for Deployed Spouses (quarterly)
- Coffee & Coloring (monthly Social Gathering for Parents & Children)
- TGIF Family Nights (monthly dances, contests, games, food, bingo)
- Movie on the Lawn (monthly family movies shown outdoors)
- Karaoke Sundays (bi-monthly family karaoke and open mic)
- Focused programming to target families with deployed members during the heavy AEF cycle:
- Kadena Marina’s "Dive Into the Blue” deployed spouses and FTAC only program
- Open Water, initial dive certification, class for all deployed spouses at our cost of $168 (includes everything as follows: class material, equipment rentals, both a pair of dive gloves and dive booties). The normal cost of this same opportunity would be $270 (a savings of $102)
- Arts & Crafts
- 10% off various crafting classes to family members while their sponsor is deployed