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- About ASB Main Page
- Deployment Travel and Travel Readiness
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- Links
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- Travel and Transportation
- Travel and Transportation Allowances FAQ
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- Travel, PCS and Transportation
- Important Regulation Changes
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- Permanent Change of Station (PCS)
- Temporary Duty (TDY)
- Junior COSTEP Travel Information
- Official Travel Forms
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- Managing TSP after separation or retirement
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The USPHS Commissioned Corps is committed to our mission to protect, promote, and advance the health and safety of the nation. Public Health Service officers are trained and equipped to provide crucial public health leadership, assist with policy development, advance innovation and science, provide essential care services and respond to national and global public health emergencies. Through our Active Duty Regular Corps, our Public Health Response Strike Team (PHERST) and our Ready Reserve Corps, we remain responsive and available to rapidly deploy in the service of health.
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Corps Care
About Corps Care
Mission: To establish and implement a uniform and comprehensive strategy to meet the physical, behavioral, and spiritual health needs of all United States Public Health Service (USPHS) Commissioned Corps officers.
Vision: Provide access to comprehensive health services for all Commissioned Corps officers.
Corps Care supports Commissioned Corps officers throughout their careers, including deployments, and by increasing awareness of available resources to address their physical, behavioral, and spiritual health needs. Corps Care is a comprehensive program that assists officers with improving readiness and preparedness, building resiliency, and cultivating healthier lives.
While we do not provide direct treatment, we provide guidance, support, and assistance as it relates to the following:
- Strengthening and building resiliency
- Coordinating resources
- Promoting officer wellness
Note: Staff responds to officer contacts M – F during normal business hours and intermittently on weekends. Utilize the crisis lines below after hours.
Our Behavioral Health Team
Force Health Protection Team Lead: CDR Tina Bryant – LCSW, BCD
Corps Care Program Manager: LCDR Heather Light – LCSW-C, BCD
Corps Care Coordinator: LT Rogenia Parker – LCSW, BCD
Crisis Line Resources Dial 988 or 800-273-8255 for the 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline. Press 1 for Veterans. https://988lifeline.org/talk-to-someone-now/
Provides trained counselors who provide support and connection to resources. Callers can call, text, or chat 988. Services are free.
Disaster Distress Helpline – 800-985-5990. https://www.samhsa.gov/find-help/disaster-distress-helpline Free 24/7 national hotline providing immediate crisis counseling to those experiencing distress related to natural and human-caused disasters.
Additional Crisis Line Resources Trans Lifeline- 877-565-8860 - A peer support phone service. Call if you need someone to talk to, even if you’re not in crisis - https://translifeline.org/hotline/
Domestic Violence Hotline- 800-799-SAFE (7233) - https://www.thehotline.org/
National Sexual Assault Hotline - 800-656-HOPE or https://www.rainn.org/about-national-sexual-assault-telephone-hotline in partnership with sexual assault service providers across the country
IHS Abuse Hotline 1-855-SAFE-IHS (855 723-3447) or https://www.ihs.gov/sexualabuseprevention/hotline/
Resources Employee Assistance Programs
Employee Assistance Programs (EAP) provide short-term counseling, vetted legal and financial consultations, fitness classes, and resources to employees from their agency. Many of the services are free or low-cost. To determine your agency’s EAP provider, check with the human resources representative, agency liaison, or Corps Care program.
- CMS, FDA, HRSA, IHS, SAMHSA - contact Federal Occupational Health – 24/7; 1-800-222-0364 https://www.foh4you.com/
- CDC - visit your EAP on the CDC intranet, call 770-488-7825, or outside of Atlanta call 404-639-2830, and if overseas contact 314-387-4701
- NIH - contact 301-496-3164 https://ors.od.nih.gov/sr/dohs/HealthAndWellness/EAP/Pages/index.aspx
- BOP - contact BHS - 800-327-2251 https://portal.bhsonline.com/auth/hashcode
- DHS - use https://www.dhs.gov/employee-resources/employee-assistance-programs
Transitional Resources inTransition 800-424-7877 (CONUS) https://health.mil/Military-Health-Topics/Centers-of-Excellence/Psychological-Health-Center-of-Excellence/inTransition is a free, confidential program that offers specialized coaching and assistance for active duty service members, National Guard members, reservists, veterans and retirees who need access to mental health care when:
- Relocating to another assignment
- Returning from deployment
- Preparing to leave military service
- Any other time they need a new mental health provider or need a provider for the first time
Treatment Locator – Medical and Behavioral Health Needs Tricare Information https://www.tricare.mil
Health Net - West Region – contact 1-844-866-9378 TRICARE West (tricare-west.com)
Humana Military - East Region – contact 1-800-444-5445 https://www.humanamilitary.com/
Military Health System Nurse Advice Line 1-800-874-2273, Option 1 or https://www.tricare.mil/ContactUs/CallUs/NAL
Extended Care Health Option (ECHO) – Tricare provides financial assistance to beneficiaries with special needs for an integrated set of services and supplies. To see if you or your dependent is eligible contact your Tricare Region Case Manager or for more information visit: https://www.tricare.mil/Plans/SpecialPrograms/ECHO
SAMHSA's Treatment Locator: https://www.samhsa.gov/find-treatment
Substance Management & Support Safe Harbor - Find out more about this protective status that applies to officers who are abusing alcohol, misusing prescription medications, and/or using illicit substances and agree to seek treatment. There are eligibility restrictions. Contact Corps Care or Medical Affairs to learn more with a confidential consultation.
Substance Use Policy CCI 211.06 https://dcp.psc.gov/ccmis/ccis/documents/CCI_211.06.pdf
Medical Affairs Branch - PHSMACCHQ@hhs.gov
Retired Officer Resources Report the death of a retired USPHS Commissioned Corps officer to the administrator of our retirement benefits – US Coast Guard: Pay and Personnel Center (PPC), Retiree and Annuitant Services (uscg.mil) https://www.dcms.uscg.mil/ppc/RAS/#ICG_ETH_3684