The mission of Marine Corps Family Team Building program is to enhance Marine Corps family readiness, to prepare our families to successfully meet the challenges of the military lifestyle and enhance mission readiness.

Marine Corps Family Team Building (MCFTB) facilitates six distinct, yet complementary programs: Family Readiness Program (FRP); Lifestyle Insights, Networking, Knowledge & Skills (L.I.N.K.S.); Life Skills; Readiness & Deployment Support (RDS); Chaplain's Religious Enrichment Development Operation (CREDO); and Prevention & Relationship Enhancement Program (PREP). This department ensures that Commanders and program volunteers receive the necessary resources and support to facilitate family readiness.

Marine Corps Family Team Building
Location: Kaneohe Bay, Bldg 244

Family Readiness Program

The Marine Corps is in the process of shifting from the traditional Key Volunteer model to a Unit Family Readiness Program. To help with this transition is Marine Corps Family Team Building’s Family Readiness Program.

Family Readiness Program Trainer Mele Stender provides standardized Transitional Key Volunteer training, which is open to all spouses of active duty Marines and those serving with Marines. Attending the training is a good way to meet other spouses who share the Marine Corps bond while learning how the command team, MCCS team, and military family work together to manage mission, life, and career events.

The Family Readiness Program also conducts briefs for units, including Family Readiness Officer training and Command Team training. For more information or to schedule a brief, please call 808-257-2657.

Family Readiness Program Trainer
Ms. Mele Stender
Bldg 244
Phone: 808-257-2657

L.I.N.K.S.

Let Lifestyle Insights, Networking, Knowledge, & Skills (L.I.N.K.S.) be one way to welcome you to the unique, sometimes challenging, and very rewarding Military Lifestyle. As with any new lifestyle, many aspects in your everyday world will be very different from what you are used to.

Join the many spouses who have "been down this road" and are excited to pass along their valuable experiences during the next session of L.I.N.K.S. Meet new friends and make the most of your family's military tour. One two-day session will explain a little bit about military history and tradition, how to cope with a "PCS" (permanent change of station) move, and how to find and make use of the resources the base offers to families.

To sign up for a session, call 808-257-2368 for more information.

L.I.N.K.S. Trainer
Ms. Staci Holt
Bldg 244
808-257-2368

L.I.N.K.S. 4 Marines
Making the Most Out of This Journey

• Base Benefits & Services
• Payday
• Separation & Deployment
• Moving in the Military
• Staying Marine

Please call for information about upcoming sessions.

L.I.N.K.S. Trainer
Staci Holt
Bldg 244
808-257-2368

Life Skills

Life Skills provides Marine Corps spouses the opportunity to further their personal and professional growth. The triad of workshops provide skills and educational development in the following areas: Communication, Relationship Building, Personal and Professional Empowerment, Business Management and Leadership, Stress Reduction, Goal Setting, and Life/Work Balance. 

Workshop topics include:

• Understanding your personality type
  and others
• Improving Communications
• Dealing with difficult people
• Improving your team building skills

These four-hour interactive, educational workshops provide participants the opportunity to improve interpersonal skills, become a more effective communicator and facilitate better team building. Participants are also able to take a self-scored personality assessment and learn how their personality type relates and can interact more effectively with others.  The skills and techniques gained through this workshop will benefit leaders of all experience levels.

Life Skills Trainer
Jocelyn Pratt
Bldg 244
808-257-2653

Readiness & Deployment Support

Readiness & Deployment provides support to Marines, Sailors, and family through all phases of deployment through various briefs and workshops, designed to increase stability and autonomy.

Workshops & Briefs Offered:

• Pre-Deployment Briefs
• Beyond the Brief
• In the Midst
• Return & Reunion

Readiness and Deployment Support Trainer
Caron Ferguson, 808-257-2658
Bldg 244
caron.ferguson@usmc.mil

CREDO
Enhancing Readiness · Transforming Lives
Optimizing Leadership Potential

CREDO is the Chaplain's Religious Enrichment Development Operation, a service of the United States Navy Chaplain Corps. This retreat ministry is funded by the Chief of Naval Operations and sponsored by the Navy Chief of Chaplains.

CREDO offers Personal Growth Retreats and Marital Enrichment Retreats. With the most beautiful oceanfront locations on Oahu, CREDO offers participants a place to relax and get away from the stresses of everyday life.

CREDO weekends are available to all active duty, military spouses, Reservists, Retirees, and DoD civilian employees, and their dependents. To register for a retreat, please call 808-257-1919 during regular office hours.

Kaneohe Bay
Phone: 808-257-1919
Monday-Friday, 0800-1630

PREP

The Prevention and Relationship Enhancement Program (PREP) is offered at the MCBH Chapel. PREP is a one-day couples communication and problem-solving workshop. Participating couples receive one copy of the book "Fighting for Your Marriage," two PREP one-day notes for couples, and a magnetic speaker/listener technique floor tile. Materials and lunch are provided at no cost.

To register, please call 808-257-1501.