okay , my name is Nicole Martinez and I
am the school liaison officer here at
Camp Zama . I've been working so
actually in May it will be 10 years as
far as like with the community , I just ,
I really love it . I mean I am an Air
Force brat , you know , I was used to
moving around and used to that , but at
the same time I know how it feels to be
that new person in the middle of the
school year and so um I actually came
to , went to Hawaii was our last
station that I was in and with my
family and I was a junior in high
school . So they actually had like a
youth sponsorship program and that
really helped me to like make friends
and things like that . So I really feel
strongly about the program because it
really helps kids to not feel like
they're just isolated child news
services and school liaison officers
just really great and especially when
you have a really supportive command
team which we do here . Um we did a
video exchange with our local japanese
community and we were able to basically
be able to do that during Covid because
we were able to get permission from our
command teams to do that , you know ,
making our soldiers feel comfortable
and making them know that um the
teachers care principals administrators
all the way down to the um child new
services , um the caregivers as well
and the director's um and the sports
like , you know , we're all here to
help the mission and to make it as
basically as a great of an experience
for the , for the Children and the
families .