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Working With Military Families
Military families experience unique challenges that can affect family and home life. This section provides resources for working with military families on topics such as adoption, child abuse and neglect, prevention, deployment, domestic violence, and mental health stressors, as well as information on an array of services that are designed to support military families.
- Supporting military families
- Adoption
- Child abuse, neglect, and prevention
- Dealing with deployment
- Domestic violence
- Mental health and stressors
MilitaryHOMEFRONT
Provides information, policy, and guidance from the Military Community and Family Policy program to help troops and their families, leaders, and service providers.
Military OneSource
Provides free, private, and confidential services as well as resources for military personnel and their families on a variety of topics.
National Military Family Association
Provides explanations on benefits and advocates for military family’s rights to benefits. Resources toolkits, publications and links to information on topics such as adoption, deployment, family assistance, family readiness and more.
Clearinghouse for Military Family Readiness
U.S. Department of Defense, Penn State & U.S. Department of Agriculture
Provides training and technical assistance, evidence-informed practices and resources to support the professional capacity of those working with military personnel and their families.
Coming Together Around Military Families
ZERO TO THREE
Highlights increased awareness and collaboration throughout the military community so that parents and professionals can care more effectively for very young children and their families and recommends resources including newsletters and videos for families.
Military Child Initiative
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health & Johns Hopkins Center on School, Family and Community Partnerships
Assists public schools with improving the quality of education for highly mobile and vulnerable young people with a special focus on military children and their families by providing national, State, and local education agencies with information, tools, and services that enhance school success.
Military Families Knowledge Bank
National Child Traumatic Stress Network
Provides resources to assist military family members and their health care and service providers.
Services for Youth From Military Families: Summary of the Special Forum Held at the 2006 Georgetown University Training Institutes (PDF - 133 KB)
National Technical Assistance Center for Children's Mental Health, Georgetown University Training Institutes (2007)
Presents issues and recommendations from the Special Forum on Services for Youth from Military Families. The forum was held at the Georgetown University Training Institutes in July 2006 to provide opportunities for dialogue about critical issues in order to contribute to the development of future policy and technical assistance.
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2006 to present
Military families
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Supporting & preserving families: Family support services