Personal & Work Life

Staying connected with your community will be the key to your success and happiness while stationed at Joint Base Charleston. The Personal & Work Life program is designed to help all member of team Charleston adapt to current and future changes in their lives, by offering a variety of workshops and seminars for parenting, marital enrichment stress management, and effective communication skills.

Navy Ombudsman Program

An Ombudsman is an official representative of the Commanding Officer and plays a vital role in establishing and maintaining current and accurate communication between the command and its family members. Ombudsman training begins with ombudsman basqic training that covers the Navy’s Family Ombudsman Program and the skills needed to do the job. Ombudsmen maintain and increase their knowledge and skills by attending advanced training offered by Fleet and Family Support Centers and local Ombudsman Assemblies.

Heartlink
The purpose of the Heart Link Program is to strengthen military families and enhance mission readiness. Appreciating that spouses play an important goal in re-enlistment decisions, therefore impacting retention, the overall program goal is to ensure that spouses are aware of their importance to the Air Force, and feel as though they are a part of the Air Force “team.” Each base appoints a Heart Link Administrator to oversee the program, which includes orientation activities consisting of presentations, interactive games and exercises.

Services include:

• Consultation: One-on-one assessment counseling for individuals, couples, and families.
• Marriage Planning Guide: provides information from the chaplains, housing, finance, accounting and finance.
• Couples Communication: Learn communication skills and conflict resolution techniques that really work! Couples will be introduced to the “Five Love Languages” and the Prevention and Relationship Enhancement Program (PREP) approach to building a lasting and loving relationship. Registration required.
• Bundles for Babies, sponsored by the Air Force Aid Society, covers financial aspects of bringing up a child. Other agencies are on hand to provide information, as well. Expecting AD parents receive a layette/bundle from their respective Aid Societies upon completion.
• Managing Millennials
  Understand what defines a Millennial as well as the reasons that Millennials are important in the workforce. This is a great training for supervisors and managers and anyone on staff that manages employees. Learn to understand each generation, through communication and adapting skills and how to implement those lessons.
• Millennials at Work
  Understand the challenges that stand in the way of success and the skills necessary for achieving greatness at work. Learn abut the potential roadblocks you will face at work and how to work around them • Seven key skills that will help you become more valuable and advance your career • How to communicate more effectively with older generations
• Koru Mindfulness Meditation
  Koru Mindfulness® offres a unique, evidence-based curriculum and teacher certification program that was specifically developed for teaching mindfulness, meditation and stress-management.
• Resilience Training
  • Personal Communication Workshop
  • 4 Lenses Personality Workshop
  • True Colors (personality temperament)
  • Conflict Style Profiles
  • De-Stress Workshop
  • Relationship Building Workshops
  • Lunch and Learn Series .
  • Parent Enrichment Program