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ACS NEWS AND INFORMATION

Check out these community volunteer opportunities!

Youth Sports needs soccer coaches for the fall! The youth season begins mid-September please

contact Lawrence Tindall for more information, DSN 440-2599 or CIV 08821-750-2599.

ACS is looking for Army Family Team Building Instructors. Childcare will be provided for training and teaching purposes. Please contact Meghan McAndrew, DSN 440-3376/3777 or CIV 08821-750-3376/3777.

ACS is looking for Emergency Placement families. Please con-tact Aimee Edwards-Hunter for more information and qualifica-tions, DSN 440-3483/3777 or CIV 08821-750-3483/3777.

ACS is looking for an English As a Second Language, ESL, in-structor. Please contact Patty Pearce at DSN 440-3526/3777 or CIV 08821-750-3526/3777.

The Chapel is looking for watch care volunteers during the week and on weekends. Please contact SGT Hirth for more in-formation, DSN 440-2540 or CIV 08821-750-2540.

As a spouse, have you ever helped to sponsor an incoming spouse or new family? Did you know that you can now apply as an official volunteer under the Spouse Sponsor volunteer job description in VMIS and earn community volunteer hours for your efforts? Contact Patty Pearce at DSN 440-3526/3777 or CIV 08821-750-3526/3777.

FMWR Outdoor Recreation needs volunteers for their upcom-ing Fat Tire bike race! Volunteers will be needed as time keep-ers and race officials from 1000-1400 on Saturday 7 September. Please contact Drew Benson, DSN 440-3593 or CIV 08821-750-3593.

Check out more volunteer opportunities by registering with www.myarmyonesource.com or contact ACS for more in-

formation, DSN 440-3376/3777 or CIV 08821-750-3376/3777 .

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Are you interested in a monthly dinner out? Join ACS for GAP Dining Out! A program to help you get acquainted or keep you acquainted with your commu-nity and community members. Regardless of where you work or if you work or how long you have been here, join us for a monthly dinner outing. We will explore and dine in different restaurants in the Garmisch-Partenkirchen-Grainau area. This will be a pay as you go event; nothing official, just fun and getting to know your neighbors, colleagues, and the local community. The dining out will be the 3rd Thursday of every month at 1830. Our September outing will be on the 19th. Restaurant to be announced. To ensure reservations, it will be necessary to RSVP.

For more information and to RSVP, please call DSN 440-3526/3777. If you are a newcomer to the com-

munity and still without a car, transportation can be arranged.

FSSA Family Subsistence Supple-mental Allowance

The FSSA is one program available to assist service members, with families, who are struggling financially or have encountered fi-nancial challenges.

The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Pro-gram (SNAP), run by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), is not available in the overseas area. Because of this, the Depart-ment of Defense (DoD) developed the FSSA Program to fill this void for service members living in overseas locations. FSSA increases the basic allowance for subsistence (BAS) by an amount intended to remove the household from eligibility for benefits under SNAP. FSSA will be paid in an amount equal to the total dollars required to bring the household in-come to 130% of the federal poverty line.

Eligibility for FSSA is based on the eligibility for SNAP, which is based on household size and income. If a service member is serving on active duty and receiving full or partial BAS, they may participate in the FSSA Program if they meet certain criteria. To find out more, contact the ACS Financial Counselor or logon

to the MilitaryOnesource website, www.militaryonesource.mil

or the FSSA website at https://www.dmdc.osd.mil/fssa

http://www.myarmyonesource.comhttp://www.militaryonesource.milhttps://www.dmdc.osd.mil/fssa

AFAP, the Army

Family Action Plan - getting feedback on what could be improved to enhance the standard of living and improve qual-ity of life in the military community. Since incep-tion, AFAP has reviewed 692 quality-of-life issues and resolved 520 of them

while classifying 158 as unattainable. Addition-ally, the plan has been the driving force behind the enactment of 128 pieces of legislation and 184 Department of Defense and U.S. Army changes, while improving 208 programs and ser-

vices. Without a successful ground-level AFAP program, the voice of Army customers is si-lenced and senior leaders lose essential situ-ational awareness of what is and is not working in their communities.

Do you have a quality of life issue that may af-fect individuals throughout our military? Submit it as an AFAP issue!

Local issues will be solicited until 4 October for this year's Local Army Family Action Plan Con-ference, 13-14 November 2013. Please submit your issue online at: www.surveymonkey.com/s/FY14AFAP .

Conference support, in addition to community delegates, is needed. For more information on AFAP or how you can get involved, contact AFAP Manager, Meghan McAndrew at DSN 440-3376 or CIV 08821-750-3376

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/FY14AFAP