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Deployment Support

At the MFRC we strive to keep you well-informed and connected in a variety of ways – with your deployed loved one, with friends (old and new), with the military and with your community. We are able to offer resources and services to assist before, during and after deployment.

Welcome to Comox MFRC Family Separation and Reunion (Deployment) Services! 

Would some of these services be helpful to you? 

  • Family Separation and Reunion Information package (includes info on the Emotional Cycle of Deployment, Children and Deployment, Homecoming and Reunion Stress) 
  • Free domestic and overseas care package delivery 
  • Community and military services information 
  • Deployment library 
  • Briefings and information sessions throughout the deployment cycle 
  • Family deployment workbooks and storybooks 
  • Deployment Family Network referrals 
  • Special events for families 
  • Workshops and social groups 
  • Warmline outreach and moral support 
  • Resources and publications 

Please contact us if you would like further information about any of these services, resources or opportunities. It is our pleasure to assist you.

“Deployment” families are…

All CF/Reservist families, who are experiencing a CF work-related absence of 30 days or more, are eligible for our full services. However, anyone who is close to a CF member and would benefit from emotional support or information is welcome to get in touch with us.

Families include: 

  • all minor custodial children 
  • married or common-law spouses 
  • parents of single members 
  • other designated NOK 
  • single-parent members 

Eligible absences: 

  • overseas deployment 
  • domestic assignments or training 
  • imposed restriction 
  • temporary duty 
  • treatment for operational injuries 

Proactive families are prepared families… 

Don’t hesitate to get in touch with us. We don’t always know you have a CF member absent. If you share your contact information with us we can keep you informed and connected.

The Comox Military Family Resource Centre respectfully acknowledges that we are standing on the Unceded traditional territory of the K’ómoks First Nation.