Hero Care vs LeaveWeb Mobile

Hero Care by the American Red Cross is a complete solution for members of the military, veterans, and their families to prepare for, cope with and respond to the challenges of military service. The Red Cross is the only civilian organization authorized to serve as the emergency communications link to service members with their families back home. Hero Care enables families to easily set up and submit an emergency request should circumstances at home require it - 24 hours a day, 365 a year, no matter where in the world service members are stationed. The app also guides users through the various services offered by the Red Cross to assist families before, during and after deployments, as well as containing a variety of other critical information:VA facilities locations, benefits information, mental health/substance abuse and job resources. Features: - Free and available in English and Spanish - Military members can use the app to easily complete and submit their Family Identification Card making the processing of any family member’s emergency request quicker - Military family members can initiate an emergency request at the touch of a button with the required information securely stored in the app - Learn of the extensive and non-emergency array of services the Red Cross provides to the members of the military, veterans and their families, including: Financial assistance, Reconnection Workshops, Pre-Deployment preparedness, etc. - Learn about the various benefits offered by Veteran’s Affairs for service members, veterans and their families, along with contact phone numbers and web addresses - Get help applying your military skills to a civilian job via Vets 2 Careers, substance abuse or mental health treatment via SAMHSA, and other local resources and opportunities via Unite US - Easily locate Red Cross shelters and offices in your community as well as a variety of VA facilities, including hospitals and benefit centers. - Families can capture a moment and share with service members using a variety of themed frames; military members can let all their friends and family back home know when its their service anniversary -Create mental, physical, and social wellness plans that help you build resilience and overall well-being.

LeaveWeb Mobile will provide USAF with a user-friendly way to submit and review Active Duty Air and Space Force military leave requests utilizing Okta Authentication. Okta for USAF is a purpose-built Identity platform for the DoD and its mission partners. Okta’s achievement of an Impact Level 4 (IL4) conditional Provisional Authorization (PA) provides a next-generation security architecture that centralizes and secures access to mission-relevant resources for approved users – anywhere, anytime. The LeaveWeb Mobile App provides the following features: * The leave member can submit leave for themselves, but there is no ability to submit leave on behalf of another in mobile. * Leave submittal through return on leave types A, R&R, D, F, P, and T with upload ability. Approve Leave Inboxes and Authorize Leave Inboxes will be included. Note: All attachments included will have to be viewed and downloaded from the website, including the AF988s. * Simple profile information will be included along with ALL Open Leaves and 2 years of Leave History (2 years past from current date) with the ability to Copy Request. Note: Leave can only be submitted 2 years in the past and 2 years in advance from current date in mobile. If there is a need to submit leaves outside this window, they will need to be submitted in the website. * Inactivated leave types E and H can continue through approvals on mobile but are not submittable since they have been inactivated. * T type leave and Rule 51 can continue through the approvals on mobile but cannot be created in mobile due to one-time allowance in a member’s career and up to 14 days. This checking control is only maintained in the website. * R type leave can continue through the approvals on mobile but cannot be created in mobile since there is no ability to submit leave on behalf of another. * Types B, M and Y will be trackable but no ability to work them in mobile as these types are managed by AFFSC/Base FM. * Copy Request and Edit Request will not be available for these leave types (E, H, R, B, M, Y and T/Rule51) in mobile. * Any actions taken in mobile will have (-mobile) appended on the action and able to track within the website. * There is no reporting, Leave Audits or administrative pieces in mobile.