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    Family Team Building, helps build Army families

    Army Team Building, helps build families

    Photo By Sgt. 1st Class David Edge | The Fort Polk Army Family Team Building Program is located in the installation Army...... read more read more

    FORT POLK, La. – Whether a Soldier and their family are new to the Army or have served for 20 years there are always questions about the Army and its benefits. The Army Family Team Building program is an Army Community Service program that is designed to answer those questions.

    The AFTB program is taught as a progressive three-part program. The program begins with Military Knowledge, then Personnel Growth and Resiliency, and ends with Leadership Development.

    “Military Knowledge is where we teach basic military information. We teach the spouses things like chain of command, customs and courtesies as it applies to a spouse, military benefits and entitlements,” said Amelia Connor, the Information Referral Specialist and Army Family Team Building program coordinator. “We also teach the spouses military acronyms and terms. It can be hard for a spouse to understand a conversation when the Soldier is using words like Top, Smoke, or the CO. We can break that language down so that the spouses can start speaking the same language as their Soldiers.”

    Personnel Growth and Resiliency is designed to help family members improve personal skills through courses in leadership and management.

    “This part of the program is really about you [the spouse]. We’ve established your general knowledge of the military, now it’s time to work on making you a better person and some of the classes in this part of the program can help you do that,” said Lindsey Condry, Army Family Team Building volunteer.

    This part of AFTB can be beneficial to Soldiers and families as they reunite after deployment and during life in general.

    “Some of the classes taught in this section of AFTB can be a great help to Soldiers that have just redeployed. Classes like Effective Conflict Management, Overcoming Stress, and Problem Solving Strategies can help Soldiers confidently and calmly deal with stressful situations that might arise at home and at work,” said Connor.

    The third part of AFTB develops advanced leadership and organizational skills for both Army and civilian life.

    “In Leadership Development we talk about being a leader, we help you identify your leadership style and how to properly communicate as a leader. If you are a leader in the Army, these classes can help you succeed at every level of Army [leadership],” said Connor.

    AFTB aims to inform Soldiers and their families about what the Army has to offer. The program teaches people to be calm and confident in their professional and everyday life.

    “I believe that an informed spouse, a knowledgeable spouse, a spouse that knows where to go to get the things that he or she needs, is going to be happier at home and more involved in this military community. When the spouse is happy the Soldiers are usually happy,” said Condry.

    The AFTB is located in Fort Polk’s building 920.

    AFTB is open from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday, and can be reached at 337-531-9421/6269 for upcoming class sessions.

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    Date Taken: 03.28.2014
    Date Posted: 04.08.2014 17:54
    Story ID: 124990
    Location: FORT POLK, LA, US

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