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Working Together: CFP enables Team Robins to voice concerns, helps find solutions to quality-of-life issues

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  • By Holly Logan-Arrington
  • Robins Public Affairs
ROBINS AIR FORCE BASE, Ga. --  Robins will conduct its fourth Caring for People forum April 29 at the Horizons Event Center, and focus groups are needed to make the event successful.

"Those interested in being a part of this opportunity can register through their first sergeant," Lesley Darley, the base's Community Support coordinator, said. "We're also looking for spouses to be involved. Spouses may register through the Officers Spouses Club, Key Spouse or Enlisted Spouses Club."

This year's focus groups include: Family Support; Guard Support; Housing Support; Spouse Support; K-12 School Support; Health and Wellness; Single Airman Support; Single Parent Support; Special Needs Family Members; Deployment Support; Higher Education Support; and a locally developed "Culture of Respect and Resiliency" focus group.

Darley said the forum gives those people involved a chance to make change happen.

"The Caring for People Forum is an opportunity for Team Robins members to work together in focus groups to develop their top two concerns and proposed solutions to installation leadership," she said. "Issues that cannot be resolved at the installation level will be forwarded to major command and Air Force level for resolution."

Past CFP forums have resulted in implementation of the School Liaison officer and Exceptional Family Member coordinator positions that assist families with EFMP and Military Child Education related issues.

Eileen Byrd, 116th Air Control Wing's Airman and Family Readiness Program manager, who is co-chairperson for Robins CFP program, said CFP's effect are far-reaching.

"The Caring for People forum has become a phenomenal tool in the goal of strengthening support services and also educating the senior leadership in service gaps," she said. "The impact of changes in the improvement of quality of life for our Airmen and their families that the CFP forum brought has been felt throughout the Air Force, AF reserves and guard."

Editor's Note: CFP, a forum-based movement at installations Air Force-wide, has brought military installation leaders and their people together for years to improve quality of life on installations. The Air Force revamped the program in 2011.