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Marine Corps Order for Family Readiness @http://www.usmc-mccs.org/upfrp/documents/MCO%201754.9%20signed%2027MAY2010.pdf

15 Facts:

1. Marine Corps Order describing the Family Readiness Program from Headquarters Marine Corps

2. The Commander's intent of the Family Readiness Officer program by Headquarters Marine Corps. Defining the unit, personal and family readiness and establish policy guidance on its role in enhancing operational readiness, and to ensure baseline standards for the Unit, Personal and Family Readiness Program (UPFRP) as it relates to supporting programs and agencies from within Marine Corps Community Services (MCCS) and other non-MCCS supporting organizations and agencies.

3.The mission of the Unit Personal Family Readiness Program (UPFRP) is to train and prepare every Marine and their family to ensure optimum resiliency when faced with life cycle events. When every Marine and family in a unit reaches the optimum level of resiliency, a high state of personal and family readiness will result thereby ensuring the unit’s high state of readiness.

4. Roles of personnel in the Family Readiness Program: Commanding Officer: Executive Officer Sergeant Major Family Readiness Officer Chaplain Family Readiness Advisor

5. Training requirements for the Family Readiness Command Team

6. Roles and Responsibilities of the Family Readiness Officer The FRO is the face of the commander’s vision and the hub of communication for the Unit, Personal and Family Readiness Program. The FRO shall be designated as a full-time primary duty Special Staff Officer operationally guided by the commander. As such, the FRO shall provide direct coordination for the UPFRP between the commander, the Marines, the families and all the available resources and organizations, both on and off DoD installations, that support the goals outlined in this Order and the commander’s intent. The primary duty of the FRO shall be to communicate and serve as a communication portal. The FRO is supported in these communication duties by an Organizational Communication System that is described in chapter 4 of this Order and supported by the resources and organizations offered through MCCS, DoD and local organizations.

7. The program components of the UPFRP are Official Communication, Readiness and Deployment Support, Information and Referral, and Volunteer Management. These components are the main support elements to the UPFRP and are not designed to be all encompassing efforts. Family outreach is an example of another effort that the FRO, in support of the commander’s vision, may pursue. The social component of a unit’s UPFRP is an important aspect of networking and developing the support structure between the unit Marines and families; however, the social component is not a tenet of the UPFRP.

8. Resources for families and Marines available from the Family Readiness Command Team and the FRO. There are over 80 MCCS programs, www.usmc-mccs.org, as well as local public and private agencies and organizations available to provide support to mitigate and eliminate the challenges and rigors of the military lifestyle.

9. Funding for the Family Readiness Program, nonappropriated (NAF) funds incorporate the former NAF unit picnic and party funds and are intended to support unit morale, welfare and recreation (MWR) needs including unit recreational, social and family readiness activities. A unit’s UPFRP may be funded by both appropriated fund (APF) Operation and Maintenance (O&M), hereafter referred to as APF, and NAF. Commanders are responsible for proper allocation and spending of their unit’s UPRFP funds. The commander’s discretion in the use of UPFRP funds is limited by legal and fiscal constraints when determining requirements or the amount of UPFRP funds that may be spent on any event.

10. Volunteer Recognition is to acknowledge the cumulative nature of volunteerism and assure that volunteer recognition is consistent

11. Yellow Ribbon Reintegration Program provides joint service deployment and reintegration support for National Guard and Reserve units and Individual Augments (IA) within the Reserve community, to include: all Sister Service reserve components, Selected Marine Corps Reservists (SMCR), Individual Mobilization Augmentees (IMA) and Individual Ready Reserve (IRR) and their spouses and designated parents/extended family members.

12. Predeployment Phase, Mideployment Phase and Reconstituition phase. To provide information and training for all stages of the deployment for Marines, Sailors and family members.

13. Forms required for the Family Readiness Program.

14. Position Descriptions for all levels of the Family Readiness Officer. (Lt.Colonel, Colonel, General levels)

15. Checklist for the commanders to ensure that all requirements are met according to this Order.