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Preservation of the Force & Families
After more than 10 years of combat operations, Special Operations servicemembers and their families are feeling the strains and pressures of multiple deployments and busy training schedules. To ensure everyone within the U.S. Special Operations Command has the resources available to them to deal with those stresses, a 'Preservation of the Force and Families' Task Force was asked to identify problems and underlying symptoms, as well as highlight best practices of service specific and Special Operations Forces programs designed to support servicemembers and their families. The task force gathered information from more than 400 focus groups that consisted of more than 7,000 servicemembers and 1,000 spouses from 55 different units across the globe.
In keeping with USSOCOM's initiative, this site has been developed to keep Air Commandos aware of resources specifically aimed at holistic readiness and health for themselves and their supportive families.
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For Hurlburt Field's Air Commandos and their families looking for behavioral help resources, visit Hurlburt's Behavioral Health Services.
The Behavioral Health Services Flight has created a wide variety of materials to help deal with the unique challenges of balancing family and military life. They are compassionate and dedicated professionals supporting the special operations community.
Contact information on base:
For immediate help in a crisis, call (850) 884-8100 or the Veteran's Live Chat at 1-800-273-8255 or text 838255.
Use your chain of command, the Traumatic Stress Response Team, Hurlburt Mental Health, Base Chapel and the Airman and Family Readiness Center.
Behavioral Health: (850) 881-4273, After Hours (850) 881-5061
Chaplain: (850) 884-7795, After Hours (850) 884-8100
Airmen and Family Readiness Center: (850) 884-5441, find them on Facebook
Health and Wellness Center: (850) 884-4292
Family Health Clinic: (850) 881-1020, After hours (850) 884-7882
Sexual Assault Prevention Program: (850) 884-7272 or (850) 499-74 25
Domestic Violence Advocate: (850) 881-4237 or (850) 797-5388
Finance: (850) 884-4110
Legal: (850) 884-7821
Military Equal Opportunity: (850) 884-2631
TriCare: 884-6355
Contact information off base:
Florida Abuse Hotline: 1-800-962-2873
Fort Walton Beach Medical Center: (850) 863-7681
American Red Cross: (850) 882-5882
National Suicide Prevention Line: 1-800-273-8255
Local Shelter House: (850) 243-1201
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For immediate help in a crisis, call (575) 784-2253 or the Veteran's Live Chat at 1-800-273-8255 or text 838255.
Use your chain of command, the Traumatic Stress Response Team, Mental Health, Base Chapel and the Airman and Family Readiness Center.
Airman Family Readiness Center
Key Spouse Program
The 352 SOG has a robust key spouse program. Each squadron has a primary key spouse who mobilizes the other spouses within that squadron. They make time to meet and support each other. They ensure newcomers are welcomed into their unit and they also pitch in for various support programs within the group. The Key Spouses support our annual holiday dorm dinner, held for all our unaccompanied airmen in the dorms. They head up a cookie drive for unaccompanied airmen and provide support for an annual Fall Fest akin to an indoor costume party with bouncy castles, games and treats. All the squadrons contribute their time, candy, money from their booster clubs to make the event a success.
Each quarter the group holds an Introduction to Special Operations Group for all newcomers and their spouses to the group. They spend the day touring the different squadrons, getting mission briefs and demonstrations all to ensure they have a good grasp of what the group does and how they fit into the mission.
With the help of the AFRC, we conduct a family retreat, a spouses retreat and singles retreat primarily focused on recent deployers, but open to all.
Each year we hold a Spouses Day/Family Day where spouses are brought in for a morning of fun and education. They receive mission's briefs, demonstrations from units within the group and some base support agencies and are treated to an incentive flight. In the afternoon there's a potluck for all members of the group.
For more information, contact your unit's key spouse through your first sergeant.
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For Cannon's Air Commandos and their families looking for behavioral help, there are a number of resources on base.
Contact information on base:
For immediate help in a crisis, call (575) 784-2253 or the Veteran's Live Chat at 1-800-273-8255 or text 838255.
Use your chain of command, the Traumatic Stress Response Team, Cannon Mental Health, Base Chapel and the Airman and Family Readiness Center.
Cannon Mental Health: (575) 784-1108
Chaplain: (575) 784-2507
Key Spouses Program
Airman and Family Readiness Center: (575) 784-4228
- Self Help Books, Videos, Programs Supporting Mission & Resiliency
- Internet Access & Guidance for Job Search, Moving, Schools, VA Info
- Pre-deployment briefings, assessments, resiliency & financial plans
- Re-integration/Reunion Briefings
- Hearts Apart Spouse Support & Outreach Activities
- Emergency Family Assistance Center
- PLAYpass Program
- Key Spouse Program
- KUDOS/TUDOS (Kids & Teachers Understanding Deployment Ops)
- Individual financial management assessment & counseling
- Community Programs (PCS Child Care, Bundles for Babies, Heart Link Funding, Give Parents a Break, Car Care Because We Care)
- Counseling and building resiliency classes
NOTE: Clients under clinical counseling care or any threat of harm to self or others, child abuse, etc. are not eligible for this level of counseling and confidentiality.
Military Family Life Consultant (MFLC): (575) 693-3140 or SOCOM-MFLC at (575) 562-0315
Sexual Assault and Prevention Response Office: (575) 784-1014 or 24/7 through their hotline at (575) 784-7272
Off base:
Veterans Affairs benefits: 1-800-827-1000 (no local VA office)
For Job Search: NM Department of Workforce Solutions: (575) 762-4571
Local Churches, Cannon AFB Family Advocacy: (575) 784-1108
Clovis Chamber of Commerce: (575) 763-3435
Roosevelt County Chamber of Commerce: (575) 356-8541
Clovis Schools: (575) 769-4300
Portales Schools: (575) 356-7000 |
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Real Warriors
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Veteran's Crisis Line
The Veterans Crisis Line connects Veterans in crisis and their families and friends with qualified, caring Department of Veterans Affairs responders through a confidential toll-free hotline, online chat, or text.
Air Force Suicide Prevention Resource Center |
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