Navy EFMP

EFMP Offices

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Overview of Navy Procedures

The Navy’s EFMP ensures that special needs are met through mandatory enrollment and pinpoint assignments to locations where necessary resources are available. Navy exceptional family members are defined as authorized family members of any age who have physical, emotional, developmental or educational disabilities or conditions requiring special medical, psychological, or educational services. Navy EFMP guidance may be found in:


Screening

The Navy’s Suitability Screening Program determines the suitability of all Navy and Marine Corps service and family members for overseas or remote duty assignments. It also addresses the suitability of service members for operational (sea duty) requirements. Commanding officers must ensure sailors, marines and their family members are screened within 30 days of receipt of transfer orders. Steps in the screening process include:

  1. Service member receives orders, completes screening worksheet (NAVMED 1300.2A) for self and each family member, and schedules medical, dental and educational screening with Navy medical treatment facility (MTF) and dental treatment facility (DTF).
  2. Medical/dental providers conduct screening, complete NAVMED 1300/1 for each individual, and identify special needs, if any.
  3. If special needs are identified, EFMP coordinator initiates enrollment, and suitability screening coordinator requests suitability determination from gaining MTF.
  4. Losing MTF makes suitability recommendation and transferring command makes final suitability determination.

Suitability screening and EFMP enrollment may proceed concurrently, but screening must be completed before the sponsor reports to the new duty location. Sponsors with EFMs who were not enrolled in the EFMP before receiving orders may not be authorized command-sponsored travel of family members if the gaining MTF determines that general medical services required by any family member are not available.


Enrollment Process

Enrollment in the Navy EFMP is required immediately upon identification of a special need. DD 2792 and DD 2792-1 forms are used to enroll sailors in the EFMP and are available from personnel service activities, EFMP coordinators, command points of contact or the Web. Sailors may take the form to the nearest MTF to be completed, or a civilian provider may complete the medical summary if the sailor is not stationed within an area served by an MTF. The EFMP coordinator at the MTF reviews enrollment forms for consistency and completeness and forwards the application to one of three Central Screening Committees (CSC):

East of the Mississippi River and in Africa, Europe, the Caribbean, Middle East and South America:

Naval Medical Center Portsmouth (Code 0465C)

EFMP Central Screening Committee

620 John Paul Jones Circle

Portsmouth, VA 23708-2197

Commercial: (757) 953-5900

Fax: (757) 953-7134

West of the Mississippi River in the continental United States including Alaska:

Naval Medical Center San Diego

EFMP Central Screening Committee, Suite 100

34520 Bob Wilson Drive

San Diego, CA 92134-5000

Commercial: (619) 532-6910

Fax: (619) 532-6908

DSN: 522-6910

Commands in the west Pacific and Asia, including Guam and Hawaii:

U.S. Naval Hospital Yokosuka
EFMP
Central Screening Committee

PSC 475, Box 1

FPO AP 96350-1600

Commercial: 011-81-311-743-7260

Fax: 011-81-311-743-5891

DSN: 243-7260

The CSC, which is a multidisciplinary committee of health care providers, reviews the enrollment forms. If it approves enrollment, an assignment category is recommended and the application is forwarded to the Navy Personnel Command (PERS-451) in Millington, Tennessee. The Navy’s EFMP manager reports enrollment to officer and enlisted detailers, annotates sponsors’ personnel records, maintains an EFMP database, and monitors assignments of all program enrollees. Enrollees must update enrollment information every three years, at least nine months prior to receiving orders and/or with a change of status of an EFM.

Note: Army and Air Force MTFs may initiate enrollment when they identify a Navy or Marine Corp EFM by forwarding the DD 2792 and DD 2792-1 to the appropriate CSC using the criteria above.


Assignment Considerations

The Navy considers special needs in all assignments of sailors enrolled in the EFMP. It gives maximum consideration to co-locating sponsors with their families and makes overseas assignments only to locations where services for EFM are available. However, enrollment in EFMP does not limit any sailor’s availability for worldwide assignment or the requirement to serve unaccompanied tours to fulfill sea/shore obligations of rate/rating. To facilitate matching assignments to needs, the Navy has six enrollment categories:

  • Category II – pinpoint assignment to location with required services overseas or within the continental United States (CONUS)
  • Category III – no accompanied overseas assignments
  • Category IV – assignment near a major medical area (military or civilian) in CONUS
  • Category V – homestead assignment (homestead assignments do not preclude requirements for sea/shore rotations of the sponsor or sponsor-elected unaccompanied/geographical bachelor assignments)
  • Category VI – temporary enrollment from 6-12 months for treatment/diagnostic assessment followed by updated category designation


Points of Contact for the EFMP

Headquarters/Personnel

Navy Personnel Command (NAVPERSCOM) in Millington, Tennessee is the proponent for EFMP. Contact information for EFMP operations (PERS-451) is (901)874-4390; DSN 882-4390 or E-mail. Contact information for EFMP policy (N135) is (901-874-6670; DSN 882-6670 or E-mail. NAVPERSCOM is responsible for:

  • Prescribing EFMP enrollment and disenrollment procedures.
  • Coordinating detailing procedures including those for severely disabled EFMs.
  • Prescribing procedures for expeditious screening and forwarding of EFM forms from the sponsor or MTF via the Central Screening Committee to the EFMP Manager.
  • Establishing and maintaining a database of enrolled service members with EFM.
  • Establishing and maintaining a current EFM resource database which includes medical, educational, and support agencies, facilities, and services in key fleet concentration areas.
  • Developing and periodically conducting training and information campaigns.
  • Providing relocation assistance.

Headquarters/Medical

Bureau of Medicine and Surgery (BUMED) in Washington, DC also has EFMP responsibilities. BUMED (M322) EFMP contact information is (202) 762-3451; DSN 762-3451, or E-mail.

BUMED and Navy MTFs are responsible for:

  • Developing policy for healthcare providers and patient administrators to identify and enroll eligible family members in the EFMP.
  • Maintaining Central Screening Committees comprised of healthcare providers who review completed EFMP applications and recommend disposition to NAVPERSCOM.
  • Identifying an EFMP coordinator at each Navy MTF who will assist staff and service members with the application process and provide necessary enrollment forms.
  • Providing training, as necessary, to all area commands on the EFMP.
  • At an overseas MTF, coordinating early intervention, special education, and medically related services with the cognizant Department of Defense Dependents School (DODDS) special education coordinator and/or military service with responsibility for Educational and Developmental Intervention Services (EDIS).


Sources of Information about Navy EFMP

Sailors and their family members seeking information about the Navy EFMP should be referred to the EFMP coordinator at the nearest MTF, or to the Naval Personnel Command’s Exceptional Family Member Program Web page.

This page has links to the Children with Special Needs Navy Parent Handbook, a page for sailors to verify their enrollment status, and frequently-asked questions. Fleet and Family Support Centers at each Navy installation also provide information on EFMP and special needs resources in military and civilian communities.

Navy Exceptional Family Member Program Resource Guide:  This guide providers readers with information about the Navy’s Exceptional Family Member Program and applicable resources.