One core program each center offers is Family Life Education. This covers relationships, parenting and other issues. The centers offer programs to enhance self-esteem, strengthen interpersonal competency and couples communication. Centers also provide deployment, relocation, employment, financial management and crisis assistance. They provide information and referral services for child and elder care, social services and other community resources.
Family centers coordinate volunteer programs and sponsor family life education programs.
They provide family support during deployments. The Washington-based Military Family Resource Center publishes the quarterly Military Family Newsletter, sent to about 13,000 policy makers, program managers, researchers and service providers worldwide. The center also offers the Military Family Clearinghouse, a collection of research information on military families. It has information to help community officials design, support or expand programs and activities in support of military families' quality of life. It also features a database with more than 10,000 records related to military family issues.