DCoE Blog

• Monday, August 31, 2009 - Training Provides Support for Chaplains and Other Care-Providers

  Posted by MAJ Todd Yosick and Dr. Jeff Rhodes , Resilience and Prevention Directorate on August 31, 2009

    Every year the U.S. Navy Chaplain Corps holds training for its chaplains and religious program specialists (RPs), who support chaplains.  The training aims to equip chaplains and RPs with knowledge and skills to assist leadership in identifying and assisting Sailors, Marines and Coast Guard personnel affected by combat and operational stress.  The Navy Chaplain Corps encourages all chaplains and RPs to attend this course.    The recent 2009 Professional Development and Training Course (PDTC), "Combat Operational Stress Control for Caregivers: The Family Dynamic," built on the foundation provided during the 2008 PDTC, “Combat Operational Stress Control for the Caregiver.”  This year’s PDTC targeted other care-providing communities in the Navy and Marine Corps that support Sailors and Marines, such as Marine Corps Community Service mental health counselors, Navy medical corps officers and corpsmen, Marine Corps family readiness officers, Navy ombudsmen, and other care-providers in programs designed ...

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• Monday, August 24, 2009 - Brig. Gen. Loree K. Sutton is Participating in Military Pathways’™ Webcast: Psychological Health and Stigma

  Posted by DCoE Strategic Communications on August 24, 2009

    DCoE Director Brig. Gen. Loree K. Sutton will be presenting “Psychological Health and Stigma: DoD’s initiatives to help service members and their families,” during Military Pathways’™Thursday, August 27 Webcast at 1300.   During the presentation, Sutton will discuss ways to maintain psychologicalhealth and the DoD’s initiatives to fight stigma associated with seeking assistance for psychological health concerns. She will highlight the new Real Warriors Campaign, a publiceducation initiative to combat stigma, and discuss the importance of resilience in maintainingpsychological health.    The Webcast is open to service members and their families in all branches, including the National Guard and Reserve.   To join this Webcast, visit: http://www.visualwebcaster.com/event.asp?id=61508 . *As a reminder, participants will hear the audio via their computer speakers.   If participants are unable to hear the audio via their computer speakers or would prefer to listen via their telephone, please call ...

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• Thursday, August 06, 2009 - Sesame Street Family Connections Web site Unveiled…

  Posted by Brigadier General Loree K. Sutton , DCoE Director on August 6, 2009

    DCoE Director BG Loree K. Sutton; Sesame Workshop President and CEO Gary E. Knell; and Patty Shinseki, member of the board of directors of the Military Child Education Coalition (left to right) with Sesame Street friends.     “If you can dream it, you can do it.”                                       - Walt Disney   The Defense Centers of Excellence for Psychological Health and Traumatic Brain Injury (DCoE) in collaboration with Sesame Street Workshop recently unveiled the “Sesame Street Family Connections” Web site.   This interactive Web site, similar to the social networking site Facebook, will allow Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen, Marines and their Families to stay connected in a safe and nurturing environment surrounded by their favorite Sesame Street friends.   Whether the distance between military members and their loved ones is due to deployment or the recovery from an injury sustained while deployed, the “Family Connections” Web site ...

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