Military OneSource

Military OneSource is a U.S. Department of Defense program that provides resources and support to active-duty, National Guard and Reserve service members and their families anywhere in the world. The program is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week at no cost to users.

Services

Military OneSource services include:

• A 24-hour call center staffed with master’s-level consultants familiar with the military lifestyle. They answer questions and provide resources and referrals on everyday issues such as finding child care, dealing with stress, helping children deal with a parent’s deployment, reunion and reintegration after combat duty, making a PCS move, creating a budget, caring for older relatives, making large-scale consumer purchases, and finding services in the local and military communities.

• Specialized consultations by phone in the areas of special-needs family members, personal finances, and education. Specialty consultants have focused training in their consultation areas.

• Face-to-face counseling sessions in the user’s community designed to address short-term, non-medical needs. Examples include concerns related to parenting, relationships, stress, deployment, and reunion and reintegration after deployment. Counseling sessions are also available online or by phone

• The Military OneSource website [1], which provides information to service members and their families in multiple formats, including audios, articles, checklists, organizers, booklets, DVDs, podcasts, and webinars

• Access to the Military Spouse Career Advancement Accounts (MyCAA) program, which provides financial assistance to military spouses pursuing degrees, licenses, or certification leading to employment in portable career fields

• Personalized health coaching by phone

Military OneSource services supplement existing service-branch and installation resources. Language-interpretation services are available.

Service members and their families can access the program at www.MilitaryOneSource.com [2] or by calling 1-800-342-9647. International dialing instructions are listed at www.MilitaryOneSource.com.

References

• http://www.defenselink.mil/News/NewsArticle.aspx?ID=52006
• http://www.defenselink.mil/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=26170
• http://www.defense.gov/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=25770
• http://www.usatoday.com/printedition/news/20080225/a_hotlineinside25.art.htm
• http://www.af.mil/news/story.asp?storyID=123008091
• http://www.stripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=33793
• http://www.mycentraljersey.com/article/20090219/GETPUBLISHED/902190356/-1/newsfront
• http://www.kitsapsun.com/news/2009/jan/31/homefront-in-focus-tax-preparation-tips-for/
• http://paycheck-chronicles.military.com/2008/12/an-amazing-bene.html

External links

• http://www.MilitaryOneSource.com
• http://prhome.defense.gov/mcfp.html