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Just in time for PCS season!!! If you are preparing to move soon or are sponsoring a new arrival, stop by ACS and ask for a free app for your IPhone, Android, or Blackberry— your eGuide for Relocation Readiness. You will be given an access code to down-load your personal eGuide for FREE!.
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Are you interested in a monthly dinner out? Join ACS for GAP Dining Out! A program to help you get acquainted or keep you acquainted with your community and community members. Regardless of where you work or if you work or how long you have been here, join us for a monthly dinner outing. We will explore and dine in different restaurants in the Garmisch-PartenkirchenGrainau area. This will be a pay as you go event; nothing official, just fun and getting to know your neighbors, colleagues, and the local community. The dining out will be the 3rd Thursday of every month at 1830. Our September outing will be on the 19th. Restaurant to be announced. To ensure reservations, it will be necessary to RSVP. For more information and to RSVP, please call DSN 440-3526/3777. If you are a newcomer to the community and still without a car, transportation can be arranged.
FSSA – Family Subsistence Supplemental Allowance The FSSA is one program available to assist service members, with families, who are struggling financially or have encountered financial challenges. The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), run by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), is not available in the overseas area. Because of this, the Department of Defense (DoD) developed the FSSA Program to fill this void for service members living in overseas locations. FSSA increases the basic allowance for subsistence (BAS) by an amount intended to remove the household from eligibility for benefits under SNAP. FSSA will be paid in an amount equal to the total dollars required to bring the household income to 130% of the federal poverty line.
Check out these community volunteer opportunities! Youth Sports needs soccer coaches for the fall! The youth season begins mid-September please contact Lawrence Tindall for more information, DSN 440-2599 or CIV 08821-750-2599. ACS is looking for Army Family Team Building Instructors. Childcare will be provided for training and teaching purposes. Please contact Meghan McAndrew, DSN 440-3376/3777 or CIV 08821-750-3376/3777. ACS is looking for Emergency Placement families. Please contact Aimee Edwards-Hunter for more information and qualifications, DSN 440-3483/3777 or CIV 08821-750-3483/3777. ACS is looking for an English As a Second Language, ESL, instructor. Please contact Patty Pearce at DSN 440-3526/3777 or CIV 08821-750-3526/3777. The Chapel is looking for watch care volunteers during the week and on weekends. Please contact SGT Hirth for more information, DSN 440-2540 or CIV 08821-750-2540.
As a spouse, have you ever helped to sponsor an incoming spouse or new family? Did you know that you can now apply Eligibility for FSSA is based on the eligibility as an official volunteer under the Spouse Sponsor volunteer job for SNAP, which is based on household size and income. If a service member is serving on description in VMIS and earn community volunteer hours for your efforts? Contact Patty Pearce at DSN 440-3526/3777 or active duty and receiving full or partial BAS, CIV 08821-750-3526/3777. they may participate in the FSSA Program if FMWR Outdoor Recreation needs volunteers for their upcomthey meet certain criteria. To find out more, contact the ACS Financial Counselor or logon ing Fat Tire bike race! Volunteers will be needed as time keepers and race officials from 1000-1400 on Saturday 7 September. to the MilitaryOnesource website, Please contact Drew Benson, DSN 440-3593 or CIV 08821-750www.militaryonesource.mil 3593. or the FSSA website at
https://www.dmdc.osd.mil/fssa
Check out more volunteer opportunities by registering with www.myarmyonesource.com or contact ACS for more information, DSN 440-3376/3777 or CIV 08821-750-3376/3777 .
AFAP, the Army Family Action Plan getting feedback on what could be improved to enhance the standard of living and improve quality of life in the military community. Since inception, AFAP has reviewed 692 quality-of-life issues and resolved 520 of them while classifying 158 as unattainable. Additionally, the plan has been the driving force behind the enactment of 128 pieces of legislation and 184 Department of Defense and U.S. Army changes, while improving 208 programs and services. Without a successful ground-level AFAP program, the voice of Army customers is silenced and senior leaders lose essential situational awareness of what is and is not working in their communities. Do you have a quality of life issue that may affect individuals throughout our military? Submit it as an AFAP issue! Local issues will be solicited until 4 October for this year's Local Army Family Action Plan Conference, 13-14 November 2013. Please submit your issue online at: www.surveymonkey.com/s/FY14AFAP . Conference support, in addition to community delegates, is needed. For more information on AFAP or how you can get involved, contact AFAP Manager, Meghan McAndrew at DSN 440-3376 or CIV 08821-750-3376