Fort McCoy ACS Family Advocacy
Family Advocacy works with families and individuals to strengthen family relationships and prevent child and spouse maltreatment. Some of the services provided include:
Family Counseling Referrals: Providing referrals for services to area family counseling professionals.
Emergency Shelter: Providing a safe environment for family members who are at risk. Shelter is provided until a long-term plan can be arranged.
Family Focus: Promoting happy, healthy, productive secure and enduring families. Family Focus has been designed especially for the Fort McCoy community to provide families with quality workshops, activities, and events that are fun for the entire family. Family Focus encompasses many morale, welfare, and recreation activities. Families are encouraged to determine their own amount of program involvement.
First Steps: Providing emotional support and information on child care and child development to expectant and new parents.
Family Advocacy objectives:
To identify the number of family members who are active military that are living in the Fort McCoy community.
To reduce the isolation of geographically separated families
To improve the morale of geographically separated family members.
To build supporting links between military and civilian resources.
To increase awareness of available resources and encourage utilization of resources.
To promote an environment of camaraderie among family members in similar situations.
To promote an atmosphere of support to the family members of deployed/hardship touring soldiers.
Family Advocacy provides a wide range of classes designed to enhance interpersonal skills. These are offered on a regular basis and by request:
Command Education
Troop Education
Domestic Violence Prevention
Child Abuse Prevention
Stress Management
Change Management
Anger Control
Adapting to Change
ParentingFor more information about Fort McCoy Family Advocacy, call (608) 388-2412.
For family members who are enrolled in the EFMP, the Army will consider the physical, emotional, or educational need during reassignments and make an attempt to assign Soldiers to an installation where the needed medical and educational services are available.
EFMP is made up of individuals:
Who have chronic medical problems such as hearing impairment, depression, diabetes, asthma, etc.
Who require special education (physical, occupational, or speech therapy, learning disability resources, cerebral palsy, muscular dystrophy, multiple sclerosis, etc).
If you have an exceptional family member, be sure to check out our community resources before arrival. La Crosse, Wis., located 45 miles from post, has a large variety of medical specialty available. EFMP is based on this medical availability. If you have other needs, it is your responsibility to check on them. If you have nursing, rehabilitation, support group, educational or housing needs, check it out first before those orders gather any dust.
Local resources include Medicaid, food stamps, WIC, and Early Intervention. Call the public health agency at (608) 269-8666 for additional information.