ADANA CLO ACTIVITY REPORT

UNCLAS SECTION 01 OF 02 ADANA 000209 SIPDIS M/DGHR/FLO E.O. 12958: N/A TAGS: TU ADANA SUBJECT: ADANA CLO ACTIVITY REPORT REF: STATE 199877 Section One: Management Officer: Telside L Manson, FS-4, 40 hours per week Section Two: Additional CLO staff members: None Section Three: 1) Agencies served by the CLO office under ICASS: Department of State 2) Breakdown of the post constituency: ¶A. Employees at Post: Marines: 0 Singles: 0 with children; 1 without children Married: 2 with children; 0 without children Individuals w/tandem assignments: 0 Total employees with children: 2 Total employees without children: 1 Total employees represented above: 3 ¶B. Family members (on orders): Spouses: 2 at post; 0 away from post Elder Family Members: 0 Children: 4 (total number in all categories below) Ages 0 - 5: 2 Grades K - 5: 1 ¶1. Number of children attending the Office-of-Overseas-School-assisted school: 1 ¶2. Number of children attending another school at post: 0 ¶3. Number being home-schooled: 0 ¶4. Number attending school away from post, receiving education allowance: 0 ¶5. Number not living with parent at post, not receiving education allowance: 0 Total population Grades K - 5: 1 Grades 6 - 8: 0 Grades 9 - 12: 2 ¶1. Number of children attending the Office-of-Overseas-School-assisted school: 2 ¶2. Number of children attending another school at post: 0 ¶3. Number being home-schooled: 0 ¶4. Number attending school away from post, receiving education allowance: 0 ¶5. Number not living with parent at post, not receiving education allowance: 0 Total population Grades 9 - 12: 2 Family Members who are high school graduates but under the age of 21 (23 if still in college): 0 ¶1. Number at post: 0 ¶2. Number attending school away from post: 0 Total 1 + 2: 0 Total family members on orders at post: 6 Total family members on orders away from post: 0 Total family members represented above: 6 ¶C. Total number of Members of Household (not on orders): 0 ¶D. Total client population: (Add total employees to total family members and total members of household count): 9 Section Four: ¶A. Family Member Employment -- Objective: To promote and facilitate family member employment inside and outside the mission, work agreement permitting. If you are part of the SNAP pilot, please note any cooperative programs between the CLO and the LEA. --None seeking employment. ¶B. Crisis Management and Security Liaison -- Objective: To provide a channel of information between community members and the official mission that raises security awareness and represents community security concerns. -- Routine checks with both family members to remind them of security concerns. ¶C. Education Liaison -- Objective: To maintain contact with schools at post and provide resource information about education. -- Provided advance information to incoming family regarding school liaison contact and website. ¶D. Information and Resource Management -- Objective: To gather and organize information so it can e distributed or available to mission community and FLO Washington. -- Pass newsletters from nearby Incirlik Air Base to family members. ¶E. Guidance and Referral -- Objective: To listen to individual and collective concerns and offer appropriate resources and referrals. (Please respect client confidentiality; no names or details should be disclosed that might identify an individual. You may wish to focus on which resources have been identified for referrals.) -- Been available to both family member to hear any concerns. ¶F. Welcoming and Orientation -- Objective: To assist the individual's adjustment to the new environment. -- Requested language training funding for both incoming employee and spouse. ¶G. Community Liaison -- Objective: To maintain contact with official mission, host country and community groups (list routine meetings attended, boards of which CLO is a member and in what capacity, e.g., chair, non-voting member, etc.) -- Member of the Turkish-American Women's Organization. ¶H. Events Planning -- Objective: To develop and implement programs for all segments of the mission population that introduce the host culture, maintain familiar American traditions or respond to needs expressed at post. -- Hosted New Year party for staff and family members. Section Five: No TDYers at Post for the reporting period. No changes in CLO staffing or work hours. Section Six: ¶A. Overview of life at post: As a very small post (3 Officers) lacking other diplomatic missions in the city, social life in Adana largely revolves around the nearby Incirlik Air Base, where regular community events are scheduled and some services are offered including: pool, library, bowling alley, bar, exchange, commissary, and schools. However, there are numerous places to visit within a few hours drive of Adana including beaches, skiing, hiking, historic sites, and mountain climbing. ¶B. Significant changes in post demographics: Post Adana now has two families as opposed to last reporting period when there was only one family at post and two single officers. ¶C. Increase/decrease in crime: None REID