Programs Supporting Deployers and Families of Deployed
  • Services “Deployment Coupons”
    • $10 of Services Gift Certificates for every month deployed
    • Issued at redeployment briefings by A&FRC upon return home
  • Club dues waived for period of deployment
    • Deployers take copy of orders to customer service prior to deployment and are not charged while deployed
  • Auto Hobby Center’s “We Care About Car Care” program
    • A&FRC provides spouses of deployed voucher for free oil change
  • Give Parents a Break
    • For parents under stress due to deployments           
    • Offered monthly on Saturdays for children ages 6 weeks to 12 years
    • FREE – funded by Air Force Aid Society, A&FRC referrals required
  • Parents Night Out - Shima No Ko 632-0265
    • Open to all families
    • Offered monthly on Saturdays for children ages 6 weeks to 12 years
    • Fee-based hourly care, no referral required
  • Hourly Care - Resource and Referral 632-7693
    • Open to all families, reservations up to 2 weeks in advance
    • Offered daily from 0700-1700 for children ages 6 months to 5 years
    • Fee-based hourly care
  • Extended Duty Care - Family Child Care 634-3464
    • For short-term, emergency child care needs that cannot be met by regular child care
    • Children ages 2 weeks to 12 years
    • Offered through contracted family child care providers
    • FREE – funded by AF Family Member Programs
  • Returning Home Care - Family Child Care 634-3464
    • 16 hours of child care within 30 days of return from deployment
    • Children ages 2 weeks to 12 years
    • Offered through contracted family child care providers
    • FREE – funded by AF Family Member Programs
  • Schilling Community Center Family Programs
    • Focused programming to target families with deployed members during the heavy AEF cycle:
      • Murder Mystery Dinner Theater for Deployed Spouses (quarterly)
      • Coffee & Coloring (monthly Social Gathering for Parents & Children)
      • TGIF Family Nights (monthly dances, contests, games, food, bingo)
      • Movie on the Lawn (monthly family movies shown outdoors)
      • Karaoke Sundays (bi-monthly family karaoke and open mic)
  • Kadena Marina’s "Dive Into the Blue” deployed spouses and FTAC only program
    • Open Water, initial dive certification, class for all deployed spouses at our cost of $168 (includes everything as follows: class material, equipment rentals, both a pair of dive gloves and dive booties). The normal cost of this same opportunity would be $270 (a savings of $102)
  • Arts & Crafts
    • 10% off various crafting classes to family members while their sponsor is deployed