Armed Forces Information

Contact Information -  Jazz Beach  910-650-8728

Military and Family Life Counselors MFLCs provide support to individuals, couples, families and groups for a range of issues including, but not limited to, deployment stress, reintegration, relocation adjustment, separation, anger management, conflict resolution, parenting, parent-child communication, relationship and family issues, coping skills, homesickness, and grief and loss.

Child and Youth Behavioral Military and Family Life Counselors CYB-MFLCs provide support to families and augment child and youth programs, Department of Defense Education Activity schools, local education agencies, and camps designed for military children and youth and special operations commands. Counselors provide non-medical support, which includes counseling, consultation and outreach, to eligible faculty, staff, parents, children and youth. They may observe, participate and engage in activities with children and youth; provide coaching, guidance and support to staff and parents; and model behavior management techniques for staff and parents. Parents must acknowledge, in writing, their consent to CYB-MFLC support and whether their child under the age of 18 may receive assistance from a CYB-MFLC (see Parent Acknowledgment Form).

CYB-MFLCs provide support on topics including, but not limited to:

• Identifying feelings

• Bullying • Conflict resolution

• Self-esteem

• Managing anger and aggression

• Separation from parents

• Problem-solving

• Coping with deployment and reunification

• Transition and moving

• Sibling and parental relationships

• Time management

• Divorce

• Food insecurity

Children of civilians are not eligible to receive counseling on a one-on-one basis; therefore, they will not need to have a signed parental consent. If nonmilitary-connected youth are in a group setting with military-connected youth, the CYB-MFLC shall support the group as a whole, to include both the military-connected youth and nonmilitary-connected youth.