Military Family LIfe Counsling…
Military Family Life Counseling Program
Military Family Life counselors assist eligible participants with circumstances occurring across the military life cycle and aim to enhance operational and family readiness across all branches (Army, Airforce, Marines, Navy).
Confidential non-medical counseling
MFLC counselors provide support to individuals, couples, families, and groups. Treating a range of issues, including deployment stress, reintegration, relocation adjustment, separation, anger management, conflict resolution, parenting, co-parenting, parent-child communication, relationship and family issues, marriage counseling, coping skills, homesickness, communication skills, grief, and loss, work-life balance, PTSD, sleep hygiene, mindfulness practices, etc.
MFLC services are grounded in a preventative model. The knowledge and skills provided by the MFLCs strengthen service members' and their families' readiness and resilience by reducing the stressors of the military life cycle.
How to access support
To access military and family life counselors, contact Military One Source at 800-342-9647, or if you’re overseas or OCONUS, click here for calling instructions. You may also contact your installation’s Military and Family Support Center. To access a child and youth behavioral military and family life counselor, you may contact a child development center, installation-based youth or teen center, an installation public school, your child's military youth summer camp, or the commander or unit training point of contact.
IMPACT
Randy Study
The RAND Corporation is a research organization that develops solutions to public policy challenges to help make communities throughout the world safer and more secure, healthier and more prosperous. RAND is nonprofit, nonpartisan, and committed to the public interest.
RAND recently completed an evaluation of non-medical counseling provided through the MFLC program. The study used a longitudinal design to understand whether individuals participating in non-medical counseling report improvements in important outcomes related to military and family readiness, such as problem severity, stress, and problem interference in their work and daily lives.
RAND REPORTED THE FOLLOWING FINDINGS:
More than 80 percent of individuals reported a reduction in the frequency of feeling stressed or anxious after initiating counseling.
INTERFERENCE WITH WORK:
Three months after counseling, around 8 percent of participants reported that their problem frequently or very frequently interfered with their work, compared to about 40 percent before counseling.
SPEED OF CONNECTING TO SERVICES:
More than 96 percent of individuals were satisfied with the speed of being connected to a counselor.
CONFIDENTIALITY OF PERSONAL AND FAMILY INFORMATION:
More than 96 percent of individuals were satisfied with the confidentiality of personal and family information held by the program.
NECESSARY SERVICES WERE PROVIDED BY COUNSELOR:
About 93 percent of participants felt that their counselor provided the services they needed to address their non-medical problems and related concerns.
LIKELIHOOD OF FUTURE PROGRAM US:
More than 91 percent of participants reported that they would be likely or highly likely to use non-medical counseling services again if the need arose.