{"id":5188,"date":"2023-06-27T11:15:56","date_gmt":"2023-06-27T15:15:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepromiseact.org\/?p=5188"},"modified":"2023-06-27T22:33:06","modified_gmt":"2023-06-28T02:33:06","slug":"2023-update-efmp-standardization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepromiseact.org\/2023-update-efmp-standardization\/","title":{"rendered":"2023 Update: EFMP Standardization"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
The Department of Defense released the new Exceptional Family Member Program (EFMP) Instruction, DoDI 1315.19<\/a> on June 23, 2023. This instruction is the EFMP standardization plan we have been waiting for!<\/p>\n\n\n\n Military EFMP families have expressed dissatisfaction with the EFMP program<\/a> for years, which led to Congress convening a House Armed Services Committee Military Personnel EFMP Hearing on February 5, 2020. Feeling underrepresented and underserved, countless military families came to the Capitol that day to be heard. They shared stories that identified insufficient availability and quality of medical care and special education. Shortly after, Congress mandated EFMP standardization across service branches and called for improvements to EFMP in the 2021 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA)<\/a>. Just shy of two and half years later, with much hard work and negotiations among DoD and service branch leaders, the DoD Instruction (DoDI) has arrived. <\/p>\n\n\n\n