Post-Deployment Readjustment

Information to help you readjust to life post-deployment.

Adjusting to War Memories

Provides tools to deal with difficult deployment reminders that may occur in the daily lives of Service Members or Veterans. Offers an assessment, an electronic-library, game-based simulations and narrator-guided self-help workshops.
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AfterDeployment.org

A mental wellness resource for Service Members, Veterans and military families that provides a variety of behavioral health information.
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Age-Appropriate Reintegration Activities

A guide to help families cope with the stress and challenges associated with reintegration and reunion.
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Balancing Your Life

Focuses on the importance of a balanced life when work and home schedules are hectic and demanding. Utilizes the "mind-body" model and engaging exercises to help achieve more balance in life.

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Battlemind Armor for the Mind

Provides video resources for soldiers and family members on handling the stresses of deployment and transitioning home. Includes specific resources for youth coping with military deployment.

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Becoming a Couple Again

Brochure published by the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences that explains ways to create a shared sense of purpose as a couple after returning from deployment.

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Check How You Are Doing

Provides a full status check on each of the 12 After Deployment programs that are designed to help soldiers adjust after deployment.
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Community of Veterans

Designed as a resource to connect Veterans with Veterans to help them transition into civilian life easier. A joint effort of the Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America (IAVA) and the Ad Council.

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Dealing with Depression

Learn about the causes and signs of depression. Offers an assessment, an electronic-library, game-based simulations and narrator-guided self-help workshops.
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Facilitate the Reintegration of National Guard Troops Returning from Deployment

Provides information on state reintegration services for returning Service Members and their families. Includes information on emergency financial assistance, education and housing programs, mental health hotlines, services for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and traumatic brain injury (TBI) and reintegration counseling.
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Handling Stress

Teaches Service Members how to assess their levels of stress and offers stress reduction exercises.
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Helping Kids Deal with Deployment

Provides guidance on how to cope with the challenges and adjustments that children and families often face during a deployment.
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How to Get Back to Normal

Provides tips to help Service Members through the transition of returning home after military duty.
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Improving Relationships

Tools to help Service Members improve their relationships with family and friends. Offers an assessment, an electronic-library, game-based simulations and narrator-guided self-help workshops.
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Let's Talk

Trained staff of compassionate clinicians can assist with difficulties such as nightmares, flashbacks, irritability, anger, depression, family problems or an overall sense of not being the same since returning from deployment.
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Links, Books, Blogs & Pods

Offers a number of links to external resources on each of the 12 After Deployment programs that are designed to help soldiers adjust after deployment.

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Living with Physical Injuries

Offers ways to manage the immediate and long-term aspects of coping with a physical injury attained during deployment.
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Mental Health Resources for Returning Veterans & Their Families

Information for returning Veterans and their families from the Substance Abuse & Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) about prevention, treatment and recovery support for mental health and substance use disorders. Includes resources for military families coping with trauma.

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ONE Freedom

Provides education and training for Service Members and families regarding the challenges of military deployments and the return home. Offers information on responses to stress, as well as self-guided tools for increasing personal resiliency and strength.
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Overcoming Anger

Recognize anger cues and learn strategies to manage anger. Offers an assessment, an electronic-library, game-based simulations and narrator-guided self-help workshops.
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Reintegration Fact Sheet for Providers

Fact sheet for military health and community leaders, and the military families they serve, which outlines a four-step guide on how couples can reestablish a shared sense of purpose following deployment. Accompanies Becoming A Couple Again.

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Returning from the War Zone - A Guide for Military Personnel

Helps Service Members understand what to expect when returning from a war zone, how to handle the transition, the signs of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and where to go for help.
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Reuniting with Your Loved One - Helpful Advice for Families

Fact sheet provides information on ways to enhance your homecoming and communication during the holidays when a Service Member returns home.
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Safety, Health & Preparedness for Military Families

Fact sheet offered by the University Services University of Health Sciences that provides advice and reminders for military families about the deployment cycle, routine health and family preparedness for disaster.

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Sleeping Better

Teaches strategies that help with sleep problems, even frequent nightmares, which can be common following a deployment.

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Spiritual Fitness

Information on the role of spirituality in coping and how spiritual well-being can help you understand your deployment experiences.

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Staying Healthy Where You Live

Describes how to manage barriers to care. Learn when it's time to seek out a professional and what type of provider to contact in your area.

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Stories From Home & Far Away

Provides stories and tips from members of the military community discussing their post-deployment challenges.

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Succeeding at Work

Provides information on how to deal with on-the-job problems and succeed at work after a deployment. Offers an assessment, an electronic-library, game-based simulations and narrator-guided self-help workshops.
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VetAdvisor Support Program: Telephonic & Behavioral Health Screening & Treatment

Provides outreach and screening to Veterans for behavioral issues that might otherwise go unrecognized and unresolved.
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Worklife Institute - OEF/OIF Reentry & Worklife Transition Program

Provides Service Members, Veterans and their families with family and personal counseling, career transition, work orientation and legal services. Free of charge to Operation Enduring Freedom/Operation Iraqi Freedom (OEF/OIF) Veterans and families.
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