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National Resources for Military Personnel and their Families
Military One Source
Military One Source is a comprehensive resource web site and helpline that provides extensive resource information and publications on family life, deployment, benefits as well as three types of short-term, non-medical counseling services for active-duty, Guard, and Reserve members and their families through face to face, telephone and online consultations.
If you would like to contact a Military OneSource consultant for assistance with a particular issue, please use the phone numbers below or go to the Military One Source Web site to access the online tools.
• Stateside: CONUS: 1-800-342-9647
• En español llame al: 1-877-888-0727
• TTY/TDD: 1-800-346-9188
Tax Assistance Telephone Number
Military OneSource offers free tax consultations and free e-filing for active duty, Guard, Reserve and their family members. You must be logged in to access this service. Find out how to start your return. Once you are registered you can e-mail a tax consultant and read tax-related material. You can also speak directly with a tax consultant by calling 800-730-3802 (7a.m.-11p.m. EDT).
Army One Source
Similar to Military One Source, Army One Source provides resource information on family readiness, benefit and entitlement programs along with the most current information available to assist you and your family.
National Resource Directory
This directory is a Web-based network of care coordinators, providers and support partners with resources for wounded, ill and injured service members, veterans, thefamilies of the fallen and those who support them. The directory offers more than 10,000 medical and non-medical services and resources to help service members and veterans achieve personal and professional goals along their journey from recovery through rehabilitation to community reintegration.
MILITARY
Military4Life is a Web site for men and women in uniform and their families. It outlines the latest military discounts, online bargains, and offers and includes a wide assortment of military discounts and other online bargains that you cannot afford to miss.
ARMY
Army Morale, Welfare & Recreation is a comprehensive network of support and leisure services designed to enhance the lives of soldiers (active, Reserve, and Guard), their families, civilian employees, military retirees and other eligible participants.
NAVY
The Navy Morale, Welfare and Recreation Division administers a varied program of recreation, social and community support activities on U.S. Navy facilities worldwide. The programs provide active-duty, reserve and retired Navy personnel and their families with sports and physical fitness activities, child development and youth programs, and a variety of food and beverage services.
Advocacy Services
The Defense Centers of Excellence provides advocacy services to active military, veterans, and families of active military and veterans. Services include advocacy, specialized information and referral, and veterans benefits assistance. Services are targeted to individuals dealing with mental health issues and traumatic brain injuries. The Center, located in Rosslyn, Virginia provides services free of charge and has no geographic restrictions. To learn more call their Service/Intake and Hotline at 866-966-1020.
Family Assistance for Military Personnel
The VFW National Home for Children serves American servicemen and women by providing help and resources to their families. Located in Eaton Rapids, Michigan, but serving the entire country, the VFW National Home for Children has been a safety net for the families of our nation’s veterans and active duty military since 1925.
The National Home’s Military Family Program assists the children, or spouse with children, of active-duty military, National Guard, and Reserves during a period of deployment. If the “family plan” falls through, National Home for Children can provide a temporary safe, secure and loving home to children or spouses with children during deployment on its village like campus of homes. Many other support programs are offered.
To learn more about the Military Family Program or any of the other programs please visit their Web site or call the National Home Helpline at (800) 313-4200.
Mortgage Assistance for Military Personnel
Mortgage payment relief and protection from foreclosure is provided to active military personnel and reservists through the Service-members Civil Relief Act (SCRA). To be eligible for this program you must have had mortgage commitments before enlisting or being called to active duty. Reservists, guardsmen and other eligible service-members should contact their lenders and other creditors and provide documentation that they have been called to active duty and are eligible for certain relief under the SCRA. To learn more about this program you can call 800-CALL-FHA (225-5342) or read their fact sheet.
Social Security Benefits Expedited
Military service members receive expedited processing of their disability applications from Social Security. Under an agreement initiated by Social Security, the Department of Defense transmits information that allows Social Security to quickly identify military personnel injured in Operations Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom.
The expedited process is available for any military service member who becomes disabled during active duty on or after October 1, 2001, regardless of where the disability occurs. Depending on the situation, some family members of military personnel also may be able to receive benefits, including dependent children and spouses.
If you, or someone you know, was wounded while on active duty in the military, find out more about what Social Security can do for you by visiting the Web site that was designed specifically for wounded veterans.
Download these Fact Sheets for more information on the subject:
Disability Benefits for Wounded Warriors
Expediting Disability Applications for
Wounded Warriors
Military Pathways Provides Anonymous Assessments
This free, online mental health screening tool provides anonymous mental health and alcohol self-assessments for family members and service personnel in all branches including the National Guard and Reserve. The self-assessments are a series of questions that, when linked together, help create a picture of how an individual is feeling and whether they could benefit from talking to a health professional.
The primary goals of the program are to reduce stigma, raise awareness about mental health, and connect those in need to available resources. The self-assessments address depression, posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), generalized anxiety disorder, alcohol use and bipolar disorder. After an individual completes a self-assessment, s/he is provided with referral information including services provided through the Department of Defense and Veterans Affairs. Learn more.
Suicide Prevention and Online Chat Services
The Suicide Prevention campaign of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is expanding its outreach to all Veterans by piloting an online, one-to-one “chat service” for Veterans who prefer reaching out for assistance using the Internet.
Called “Veterans Chat,” the new service enables Veterans, their families and friends to go online where they can anonymously chat with a trained VA counselor. You can access Veterans Chat through the national suicide prevention Web site. Once on this page which is devoted to veterans, click on the box to the right of the page that says Veterans Chat.
To speak with a counselor call the Hotline number 800-273-TALK.
Need Help? – Dial 2-1-1
You are encouraged to dial “2-1-1” 24 hours a day, seven days a week if you need help in understanding and finding available assistance services. Language translation and TTY services are offered to any caller. You can also search our database for services in your local community or Chat Live with an experienced community resource specialist. 2-1-1 will help identify with you the best local resources to fit your individual needs during times of financial distress or for life’s everyday situations. This service is FREE of charge and is supported by local United Ways of New Jersey and NJ state government.
If you know of additional resources that would be appropriate to include in this section, please let us know by contacting us via e-mail at info@nj211.org.
Sources for this page include:
https://www.militaryonesource.com/skins/MOS/home.aspx
http://www.myarmyonesource.com/sitemap.aspx
http://www.nationalresourcedirectory.gov/nrd/public/DisplayPage.do?parentFolderId=6006
http://www.military4life.com/mwr/
http://www.armymwr.biz/
http://www.mwr.navy.mil/
http://www.suicidepreventionlifeline.org/Default.aspx
http://www.vfwnationalhome.org/index1.shtml
http://www.socialsecurity.gov/woundedwarriors
Page last modified 4.20.10
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