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Provides contact information for every military installation in the United States. From information about military housing to the commissary to the base dental clinic, you'll find the contact number and addresses you need in one easy to access guide.
Identifies seven ways to build family resiliency before, during and after a family member deploys.
Connects all members of the military community, their spouses and families to the resources they need for transitioning to civilian life.
Find information for Airmen, family and friends on what can be expected before, during and after deployment along with helpful tips for reunion.
Learn tips and find resources to support the pre and post deployment process and ease reintegration for spouses and Service Members.
Provides coaching to the family members and friends of Veterans to assist them in supporting their loved ones during post-deployment and ongoing reintegration. This is a national clinical service providing information and assistance. For confidential help, call 1-888-823-7458.
Locate commissaries and information on store hours, directions, phone numbers, contact information, floor plan, special savings and more.
Provides fact sheets on health topics relevant to military life, including caring for children, depression and traumatic brain injuries.
Learn about a full range of support services, policies and programs for Service Members and their families including self-help materials, information and referral services, military life skills education and counseling for individuals, couples and families.
Access a daily e-newsletter that covers health issues related to military service, deployments, and information on service member and family support services is also available.
Emphasizes the importance for retired Service Members to update and file their Designation of Beneficiaries paperwork.
Access a fact sheet designed to provide information on family preparedness planning for disasters, including special health needs, tips around evacuation, and creating a family communication plan.
Learn about the 2011 initiative to support our nation's military families. Read quotes by the President, relevant articles and the goals set for the participating federal agencies.
Offers a handbook published by the Intrepid Fallen Heroes Fund that outlines benefits, rights and resources available to Service Members and their families to help with financial, medical, educational, employment, legal and other needs.
Find information put together by the Fleet and Family Support Centers on programs directed at families of individual augmentees specific needs in the IA Family Handbook.
Read tips on begining and maintaining a healthy family life.
Provides a directory of over 250 military installations and communities worldwide, including locations of installation programs and services, maps and directions.
Contains extensive links to Web sites of organizations that provide assistance to all services and ranks in the Active Duty military and Reserves. Topics include mobilization, deployment and family readiness groups.
Find information to help with the moving process to a new duty station or new town. Learn about military regulations and benefits and even helpful allowances you may qualify for. The Get Ready page gets you started. The Making the Move page gets you through the move and the Settling In page helps you when you arrive.
Find useful information including: legal issues, financial advice, family care plans, talking to kids, talking to families, child care, coping with emergencies and more.
Provides basic information on the military phoenetic alphabet, military time and common acronyms and military terms.
Provides tips to military families on how to reconnect after long separations and ways to cope with war and loss.
Listen to a podcast from "Gift From Within" provides military families and the military community practical guidelines, tips and suggestions for dealing with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
Read this guide produced by the Marine Corps to help military families cope with deployment and learn useful tips for reuniting with loved ones.
Receive a guidebook from the National Center for PTSD that helps military families become reacquainted with returning Service Members.
Access a fact sheet that provides information on ways to enhance your homecoming and communication during the holidays when a Service Member returns home.
Supports Service Members, their family members and communities during and after deployment by providing behavioral health resources.
Access a fact sheet offered by the Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences that provides advice and reminders for military families about the deployment cycle, routine health and family preparedness for disaster.
Watch the Talk, Listen, Connect bilingual multimedia program for military families with children 2 to 5 experiencing deployments, multiple deployments or when a parent returns home changed due to a combat-related injury.
Learn about parent rights and responsibilities regarding special education services for military children in the United States and overseas. STOMP is a federally funded Parent Training and Information Center established to assist military families who have children with special education or health needs.
Read the text of the 2011 Military Families Initiative to learn about the federal agencies that are committed to both strengthening military families and raising the quality of life of those who support the nation's Service Members.
An 18-session family education program for people who care about someone living with mental illness or PTSD. Workshops are organized into four categories: information about disorders, skills for family members, the experience of caring about someone living with serious mental illness or PTSD, and dealing with family, friends and professionals.
Find information from the Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences for families preparing to move or who are encountering medical personnel and resources in their new surroundings.
Learn how to recognize and respond to children's reaction to the deployment of a parent. Provides information to help you understand and support children throughout the deployment cycle.
Presents common issues that all new parents experience in caring for their newborn. A Courage to Care for Me fact sheet.
Gives updated information on military pay, allowances, installations, benefits, TRICARE, social security and other important resources.
Learn about how to live according to the guidelines of USSOCOM as an active duty USSOCOM dependent. Discusses how you can be a part of protecting national security.
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