Marine Corps Family Readiness - Family Readiness Officers, A Force Multiplier
Family Readiness Program
The Corps’ most valuable resource is the individual Marine and their family. The Unit Family Readiness Program will educate, assist and empower Marines and families to achieve and maintain a high state of personal readiness and resiliency in response to life, career and mission events by providing information, tools, resources and support to empower them to take care of themselves.
Personal and family readiness is the ability of the individual Marine and their family to successfully balance the challenges of a military lifestyle, family, career, and mission events. Personal and family readiness has been identified as a combat multiplier, equally as important as individual, equipment, and combat readiness. With families in a higher state of readiness, individual Marines are better able to perform their assigned missions efficiently, effectively, and safely, thereby promoting a higher state of unit readiness.
The mission of the Unit Family Readiness Program is to train and prepare Marines and families to ensure optimum resiliency when faced with life cycle events. When every Marine and family in a unit reaches the optimum level of resiliency, a high state of personal and family readiness will result thereby ensuring the unit’s high state of readiness. The Unit Family Readiness Program shall provide support through proactive outreach and intervention in the form of the following functions: Official Communication; Information and Referral; and Marine and Family Readiness and Deployment Support (RDS).
Family is defined as ALL members of the Marine’s family. Marines have three families: the family they are born into, the family they are sworn into; and the family they are married into. Therefore, family support shall be accessible and provided to Marines (regardless of marital status), spouses, children, wards, and the designated parents / extended family members of Marines. (Note:This extended definition of family does not override the Marine Corps legal definitions of family and loco-parentis regarding emergency leave, DEERS enrollment issues, etc)
The individual Marine is responsible for their personal and family readiness and is supported by the enduring partnership between the Unit Family Readiness Program’s Family Readiness Command Team Leadership and the Marine Corps Community Services (MCCS) Team.
To explore the roles and responsibilities, and training requirements of each member of the Command Team Leadership and Family Readiness Volunteers select the positionon the chart below.
FAMILY READINESS LINKS
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