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# 									Foreign Affairs Offices and Organizations							

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### Department of State Offices

        - Global Community Liaison Office  (GCLO) – Community Liaison Office (CLO) Program, Crisis Management Services, Education and Youth, Expeditious Naturalization Support, Family Member Employment, Post Evacuation, Unaccompanied Tours.
        - Office of Allowances  – develops and coordinates policies, regulations, standards, and procedures to administer the government-wide allowances and benefits program abroad under the Department of State Standardized Regulations (DSSR).
        - Office of Logistics Management  – provides global logistics support for employees and family members. Their publication It’s Your Move  is invaluable for planning an international relocation.
        - Office of Overseas Schools  – provides the Department of State foreign service community with information on international schools, overseas special needs services, teaching overseas and other topics relevant to international education.
        - Office of Medical Services  – provides healthcare to U.S. government employees and their families who are assigned to U.S. embassies and consulates worldwide. For the same population, the Office of Medical Services also provides free, confidential counseling by clinical social workers through the Employee Consultation Service (ECS).  In addition, the MED Child and Family Program works with parents to assure children’s mental health and special educational needs are identified, appropriately assessed and have an effective treatment and educational plan established in advance of and during overseas assignments.
        - Retirement Network

### Outside Organizations and Groups

        - AAFSW  (Associates of the American Foreign Service Worldwide) – offers a local playgroup, French language group, foreign-born spouses group, morning coffees with special speakers, the Livelines e-mail group, a listing of  Foreign Service Blogs , and more.
        - ADST  (Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training) – offers texts of its “country reader” oral history collections free of charge on its website. These collections bring together excerpts on individual countries from ADST’s 1700 interviews of former diplomats. The full collection of diplomatic oral histories is available at the Library of Congress through a link at adst.org. The organization also has a publications program and supports diplomatic training.
        - AFSA  (American Foreign Service Association) – the professional association of the U.S. Foreign Service and the exclusive bargaining agent for all Foreign Service employees in the five foreign affairs agencies. The  AFSA Member Guidance  section of their websites offers basic information that may be of assistance, including an attorney’s list. They also provide a listing of  Foreign Service Blogs .
        - Foreign Service Youth Foundation  (FSYF) – sponsors activities for Foreign Service kids ages 5 to 18.
        - **glifaa- LGBT+ in Foreign Affairs Agencies**  – State Department and USAID employee affinity group advancing diversity and workplace equity in U.S. foreign affairs agencies and human rights for LGBT people around the world.

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