About MilitaryHOMEFRONT

MilitaryHOMEFRONT is the Department of Defense website for official Military Community and Family Policy (MC&FP) program information, policy and guidance designed to help troops and their families, leaders, and service providers.

MC&FP Mission

The Office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Military Community and Family Policy is directly responsible for programs and policies which establish and support community quality of life programs for service members and their families worldwide. This office also serves as the focal point for coordination of the broad range of Quality of Life issues within the Department of Defense. Specifically, the Deputate performs the following functions:

• Provides for family support policies and programs in such areas as family center operations, child care, youth programs, family advocacy, relocation, transition support services, and support during mobilization and deployment (including casualty affairs)
• Provides policy and management direction for dependents' education programs stateside and overseas to ensure that educational services are of uniformly high quality
• Establishes program policy for mission sustaining and basic community programs for Morale, Welfare and Recreation, Voluntary and Post-Secondary Education and coordinates the services of non-profit agencies such as the Red Cross, Armed Services YMCA and the USO
• Provides policy and program oversight to ensure that military community quality of life programs are designed and executed to support the needs of the post-drawdown force and the Defense mission
• Coordinates DoD oversight of the Armed Forces Retirement Home Board