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Offers to help create a detailed strategy to manage finances throughout the military career and beyond. It includes budgeting, savings, debt management, insurance, retirement, tax and transition planning. Aimed at optimizing resources, mitigating risks and achieving financial goals, it's essential for stability and security.

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Personal Financial Counseling
Military Transition Assistance Programs
Military Family Service/Support Centers

Offers to help prepare and empower military personnel and their families in Iowa to meet the challenges of military and civilian life through training, resources, hands-on assistance and education. Offering essential services such as, crisis intervention, legal and community resources, information and more.

Solider Family Readiness Specialists

Council Bluffs: (712) 325-1218 ext. 18204

Waterloo: (515) 331-5589

Iowa City: (319) 337-9573 ext. 19012

Sioux City: (712) 252-4347 ext. 18030

Boone: (515) 727-3629

Davenport: (563) 391-6441 ext. 19221

JFHQ: (515) 334-2742

Camp Dodge:

(515) 331-5842

(515) 252-4192

(515) 252-4758

(515) 334-2757

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Social Services for Military Personnel
Military Family Service/Support Centers
Provides information on local programs and refers military families and DoD civilians to the appropriate resources. Provides connection to Military One Source.

Provides resilience training to enhance positive behaviors and protective factors that support sustained personal readiness and resiliency through education and skill-building. The training equips participants with intellectual and emotional tools to optimize long-term health, performance, and deployment readiness. Additionally, offers a Suicide Prevention Program aimed at reducing suicide risk among Soldiers, Army Civilians, and Family members through early identification and intervention strategies.

The program includes access to immediate assistance via suicide prevention hotlines, which provide support for individuals experiencing suicidal feelings or those concerned about others. Hotline services include crisis assessment, resource mobilization, and emergency intervention as needed, available through telephone, email, chat, and text. These initiatives collectively promote overall health, readiness, and well-being for Iowa National Guard Soldiers and their families.

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Suicide Counseling
Suicide Prevention Hotlines
Military Family Service/Support Centers

Provides support and resources for Soldiers and their Families to assist them in achieving a successful deployment cycle. This assistance is provided by creating experiences that coincide with each stage of the deployment journey.

Pre-Deployment, as Soldiers and families anticipate extended separation the focus is on being prepared and supported by ensuring awareness of vital information and resources to help throughout the deployment process.

During-Deployment, the experience during the deployment changes to one focused more on support and connectedness so that families don't feel they are enduring the deployment alone while also preparing them for the inevitable reintegration.

Post-Deployment, upon the Soldiers' return, the focus shifts to the reintegration of the Soldier to the family unit and assists them as they resume family life and normalize adjusted routines.

Provides assistance to veterans and their families who file claims with the Veteran's Administration (VA).

Family support network channels requests for any type of assistance including financial to Legion Posts throughout the United States. Callers are advised to give their home zip code and a call-back telephone number where they can be reached.

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Veteran Benefits Assistance
Military Family Service/Support Centers