ACS NEWS AND INFORMATION
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 con-tact
Aimee Edwards-Hunter for more information and qualifica-tions, DSN
440-3483/3777 or CIV 08821-750-3483/3777.
ACS is looking for an English As a Second Language, ESL,
in-structor. 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 in-formation,
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 as an official
volunteer under the Spouse Sponsor volunteer job description in
VMIS and earn community volunteer hours for your efforts? Contact
Patty Pearce at DSN 440-3526/3777 or CIV 08821-750-3526/3777.
FMWR Outdoor Recreation needs volunteers for their upcom-ing Fat
Tire bike race! Volunteers will be needed as time keep-ers and race
officials from 1000-1400 on Saturday 7 September. Please contact
Drew Benson, DSN 440-3593 or CIV 08821-750-3593.
Check out more volunteer opportunities by registering with
www.myarmyonesource.com or contact ACS for more in-
formation, DSN 440-3376/3777 or CIV 08821-750-3376/3777 .
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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 commu-nity 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-Partenkirchen-Grainau 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 com-
munity and still without a car, transportation can be
arranged.
FSSA Family Subsistence Supple-mental Allowance
The FSSA is one program available to assist service members,
with families, who are struggling financially or have encountered
fi-nancial challenges.
The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Pro-gram (SNAP), run by
the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), is not available in the
overseas area. Because of this, the Depart-ment 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
in-come to 130% of the federal poverty line.
Eligibility for FSSA is based on the eligibility for SNAP, which
is based on household size and income. If a service member is
serving on active duty and receiving full or partial BAS, they may
participate in the FSSA Program if they meet certain criteria. To
find out more, contact the ACS Financial Counselor or logon
to the MilitaryOnesource website, www.militaryonesource.mil
or the FSSA website at https://www.dmdc.osd.mil/fssa
http://www.myarmyonesource.comhttp://www.militaryonesource.milhttps://www.dmdc.osd.mil/fssa
AFAP, the Army
Family Action Plan - getting feedback on what could be improved
to enhance the standard of living and improve qual-ity of life in
the military community. Since incep-tion, AFAP has reviewed 692
quality-of-life issues and resolved 520 of them
while classifying 158 as unattainable. Addition-ally, 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 ser-
vices. Without a successful ground-level AFAP program, the voice
of Army customers is si-lenced and senior leaders lose essential
situ-ational awareness of what is and is not working in their
communities.
Do you have a quality of life issue that may af-fect 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 Con-ference, 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
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/FY14AFAP