Army Family Team Building
Mission: To educate and train America's Army in a wide variety of knowledge, skills, and behaviors to prepare our Army families to move successfully into the 21st Century.
Description: Army Family Team Building is not a new idea or concept. It's the formal recognition and naming of something that the Army and Army families have been doing for over 200 years - sustaining and nurturing the force and serving the Nation.
Army Family Team Building is a serious business. It's about READINESS… Mission Readiness AND Family Readiness. It's about helping families adapt to Army life, accept challenges, deal with change, and develop life skills.Army Family Team Building has three separate tracks: one for soldiers (active and reserve component); one for Department of Army (DA) Civilians; and one for family members.
It is the goal of Army Family Team Building to inform our soldiers of the benefits of the program to them personally and to them as leaders of soldiers and families. Army Family Team Building will teach them that the more informed their spouse is about the military environment, the better their chances for a successful career. The better prepared the spouses are to handle the challenges of military living, the more the soldiers can concentrate on the mission. Often we forget that our civilian counterparts deploy with our soldiers. It is just as important that their families also have a basic understanding of the military. Army Family Team Building provides them that opportunity.In the past it was said, "The Army takes care of its own." Today's saying is more appropriately: "The Army takes care of its own by teaching its own to take care of themselves." Reimbursement for child care provided by Hood Street Hourly Child Development Center, a Family Child Care Provider or a certified Red Cross babysitter is available for AFTB volunteer instructors and AFTB students.
Visit the Army Family Team Building Official web site: www.myarmyonesource.com |
