Recently, there was a policy change regarding those in military service who die by suicide. The While House has lifted the ban on letters of condolence to survivors of these service persons.
The Marriage and Family Counseling Collaborative (MFCC) is a partnership group designed to inform, educate, and support providers who work with military Service members and their families.
In this heart-rending video, a sailor returns from deployment and surprises his young son by arriving in his classroom - a class that had been writing letters to him during his deployment. It's arguably among the most touching videos on YouTube.
Air Force leaders are concerned about the well-being of airmen's families, but are the programs set up for their benefit doing enough? To find out the answers to this and other issues, the Air Force asked RAND to survey the spouses of active-duty airmen. The main concerns related to children, finances, employment, and the effects of moves and deployment. By and large, however, the families were satisfied with Air Force life.
NCFR member and Purdue University scholar Shelley MacDermid Wadsworth, an expert on Military Families, shares examples of military families' creative ways they use to meet their unique stressors.
Sesame Street Workshop includes a number of initiatives designed to help prepare children for the challenges that await them by addressing a wide range of developmental needs, from the basics of ABCs and 123s to life lessons about health, safely, getting along, and coping with loss.
Military Families: Defining, Assessing and Building Resilience
Dr. Shelley MacDermid, CFLE, Purdue University
Dr. Dennis Orthner, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
Dr. Gary Bowen, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
This session is designed to increase understanding of factors that contribute to resilience in military families, how that can inform intervention/prevention strategies, and the effectiveness of the Essential Life Skills for Military Families program.
