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Exceptional Family Member Program helps families

The Fort Leavenworth Lamp - 5/24/2017

The Exceptional Family Member Program is a mandatory enrollment program under Army Regulation 608-75 and is based on Department of Defense directives. This program works with military and civilian agencies to ensure that comprehensive and coordinated community support, appropriate housing, educational, medical and personnel services are available to families with special needs.

When family members with special needs are enrolled in the program before the assignment cycle, their needs can be considered in the military assignment process. An exceptional family member is the adult or child family member of an active-duty service member with any physical, emotional, developmental or intellectual disorder that requires special treatment, therapy, education, training, housing or counseling.

There have been a lot of changes in the Exceptional Family Member Program office at Munson Army Health Center. Contact the EFMP office by calling the Appointment Access and Readiness Contact Center at 6846250 and asking to be transferred to EFMP.

For families starting the overseas screening process, the EFMP staff can assist going over the required paperwork and complete a developmental screening for any child under the age of 5 and currently not in school.

Families seen on post must make sure all family members have had a physical within the last year. Families seen by off-post health care providers will need to bring their records to the initial overseas screening appointment, and all family members must have a current physical included in the records provided. Once all of the paperwork has been turned into the coordinator at the initial appointment, the EFMP provider will screen the records. If everything is complete, the EFMP office will contact the family to schedule a final face-to-face overseas screening appointment with a provider.

Service members who think they have a family member who meets enrollment criteria can call the AARCC at 684-6250, ask for EFMP and schedule an appointment with the family member's primary care manager for enrollment.

Families already enrolled and set to expire within the next six months can stop by the EFMP office on the second floor of MAHC to ask for a copy of their summary report to take to their primary care manager to be updated. Once they have the completed forms, they will get another appointment to see the EFMP coordinator. This should be scheduled as they are leaving their PCM appointment.