Program teaches, helps out spouses Published July 25, 2012 By Robert Nesbitt 60th Airman and Family Readiness Center TRAVIS AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. -- The Spouse Employment Program provides entry-level job training to Air Force spouses with the goal being immediate, viable employment with a portable career. An important benefit of this program can be improving a family's financial readiness. Finances are often a concern for young military families and an obstacle to spouses securing employment can be relocation, deployments or the lack of entry-level job skills. The AFRC was awarded a grant from Air Force Aid Society for two fully-paid National billing and coding specialist licenses and certifications. The tuition was full- funded and the cost for obtaining the license was funded as well. To make the opportunity fair as possible, bingo was the preferred way to give the opportunity to two lucky spouses. More than 35 spouses played bingo in order to win the opportunity to attend Boston Reed College to obtain a national certification as a billing and coding specialist. Boston Reed College representatives came out and gave an excellent presentation on the certification program and gave away prizes throughout the bingo game. Two Travis spouses, Sasha Nunnally, spouse of Tech. Sgt. Kenneth Nunnally, 15th Air Mobility Operations Squadron deployable C2 systems section, and Anne Cook, spouse of Staff Sgt. James Cook III , 60th Diagnostics and Therapeutics Squadron clinical lab and pathology flight, won the opportunity, are currently enrolled and will be done with their certifications by August 2013. Thanks to the generous grant from the Air Force Aid Society the program is helping military spouses have professional portable careers. For more information on scholarships and Spouse support programs please contact Robert Nesbitt at 424-2486.