Resources
Learn how to connect with resources such as medical care, training, education, or legal support.
Our EFMP Family Support team helps Families every step of the way.
EFMP Family Support teams offers:
- Systems Navigation. Get connected with services on and off post.
- School support. Understand IEPs and 504 plans, and ask our staff to attend school meetings with you.
- Needs assessment and plan. Set Family goals in a one-on-one setting.
- Support groups and events. Meet other Families and share experiences.
- Resource guides. Access DoW tools like EFMP & Me, free DirectSTEP® e-courses, and Special Ed Connection.
Call or email your EFMP Family Support office to get started.
System Navigation
We are here to navigate Families through the available systems of care. System Navigators will:
- Identify your EFM and Family strengths and needs.
- Help identify and prioritize your EFM and Family goals.
- Assist Soldiers with Compassionate Reassignments and other military related services.
- Develop a Family Service Plan to reach your goals.
- Make referrals to required services and provide follow up assistance.
- Coordinate housing for military personnel with specialty needs.
- Provide information about disabilities or medical conditions of concern and entitlements from both local and State to include Medicaid, Medicaid Waivers, and Social Security/Disability.
- Identify support groups, social and other community support agencies that provide recreational activities for military children with special needs.
- Strengthen your ability to advocate for your EFM.
- Help prepare Families for Admission, Review and Dismissal (ARD) meetings and 504 meetings.
- Help Families organize their paperwork for meetings.
- Attend ARD meetings and 504 meetings, upon parent request.
- Maintain partnerships with Child & Youth Services School Liaison Officers and Independent School Districts.
EFMP Orientation
EFMP Orientation • EFMP Workshop
This training provides information for newly arrived or newly enrolled Soldiers with Exceptional Family Members. Every 2nd Tuesday of the month from 10 - 11:30 a.m., we provide an Orientation for Soldiers with Exceptional Family Members. Come out and learn more about community resources (on and off post), information and referral, advocacy, and programs available for Families with special needs.
Programs / agencies that provide information are:
Family and MWR's Army Community Service (ACS) and Child and Youth Services (CYS), Killeen Independent School District, Copperas Cove Independent School District, TRICARE, Military Life Counselors (MFLC) and more
EFMP Support Group
Call and register today. +1 (254)287-6070
Join us to connect with resources, knowledge, and one another. People with disabilities can benefit from connecting socially with one another, especially when they can find a common ground with someone else who lives with their specific disability.
