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Self-Help Resources
Family Deployment Guides
In depth information about preparing for logistical deployment-related issues (e.g., finances, legal issues), problem-solving, and tips for coping with stress.
Ameriforce Deployment Guide
Addresses special issues for the National Guard.
Unit Deployment Guide for Families
Return and reunion guide for Marines and families.
Coping When a Family Member Has Been Called to War
Is a fact sheet illustrating some reactions people may have to deployment and coping recommendations.
Resilience in a Time of War
Tips for military families on using resilience skills during homecoming.
Family Reintegration/Redeployment/Homecoming
Returning from the War Zone: A Guide for Military Personnel
Information to help military personnel understand what to expect when returning from a war zone, and to help them adapt to home life.
Returning from the War Zone: A Guide for Families of Military Members
A Soldier and Family Guide to Redeploying
Is a brief handout that addresses expectations of family members, health issues, and suggestions about reuniting with family members.
Resilience in a Time of War: Homecoming
Is an article with some good basic for understanding deployment's effect on children and tips for reuniting with family members.
Homecoming After Deployment: Dealing with Changes and Expectations
Provides a good overview of deployment-related expectations that may vary among service members, families, and children, as well as reunification tips.
Becoming a Couple Again: How to Create a Shared Sense of Purpose After Deployment
Is a health promotion campaign designed for military couples by the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, Maryland's Courage to Care program.
Reuniting With Your Loved One: Helpful Advice for Families
A Guide for Spouses of Service Members Returning from Mobilization/Deployment
Resources for Parents: Coping with Deployment
Resilience Guide for Parents & Teachers
This handout for parents and teachers provides developmentally appropriate information and suggestions for preschool, elementary, and teenage children.
Resilience in a Time of War: Tips for Parents & Day-Care Providers of Preschool Children
10 tips for parents, teachers and caretakers of preschoolers.
Resilience in a Time of War: Tips for Parents & Teachers of Elementary School
10 tips for parents and teachers of elementary aged children.
Resilience in aTime of War: Tips for Parents and Teachers of Middle School Children
10 tips for parents and teachers of middle school aged children in a time of war.
Resilience in a Time of War: Tips for Parents and Teachers of Teens
10 tips for parents and teachers of teens in a time of war.
Your Soldier, Your Army: A Parent's Guide
Is a resource written by a military wife of 30 years, serving double-duty as a military mom of two active duty service member sons.
Talking to Children About Going to War
A National Center for PTSD Fact Sheet.
When Parents are Deployed
This prime time television special, responding to the challenges that miltary families face during deployment can be viewed online. "When Paretns are Deployed" builds upon Sesame Workshop's recent educational outreach program titled, Talk Listen, Connect: Helping Families During Miltary Deployment.
The National Guard's Deployment Guide for Teens
Resilience in a Time of War: Wartime Stress & Teens
This brief handout, designed by the American Psychological Association for teenagers, focuses on wartime stress and its effect on teens.
Coming Together Around Military Separation: Supporting our Babies and Toddlers Campaign
Zero to Three
Addresses the ways that parents and caregivers can support young children through military-specific challenges, such as deployment and relocation.
Building Resilience in Children and Adolescents
Online Resources and Videos
Returning from the War Zone: A Guide for Families of Military Members
Video program focused on deployment as it affects the whole family, tips for making the transition following a deployment, and tips for accessing resources for the whole family.
Military Child and Youth Deployment Support Video Program
Talk, Listen, Connect: Helping Families During Military Deployment
Sesame Workshop
Coming Home: Military Families Cope with Change
Sesame Workshop
Books & Workbooks
Bibliotherapy Resource Guide
Department of Veterans Affairs
Web Resources
Military Child and Youth Deployment Support
Military Child Initiative
Best practices resources for the classroom, school, parent and community. This site includes web-based resources for school teachers, administrators and other school personnel about the special needs of military children and strategies schools can use to better meet those needs.
National Military Family Association
Deployment Health Clinical Center
US Army Center for Health Promotion and Preventive Medicine
Force Health Protection and Readiness: Deployment Tips
SurvivingDeployment.com
Information and resources prepared for military families by military family members who have also been through deployments and are well connected with the military community.
DeploymentKids.com
Resources to help military kids have an easier time with a parent's deployment.
Military Child Education Coalition
After Deployment
Wellness resources for the military community.
Veteran and Military Family Health
U.S. National Library of Medicine and the National Institute of Health
Defense Centers of Excellence
Questions about traumatic brain injury, post-traumatic stress disorder, or other psychological health issues. The DCoE establishes quality standards for: clinical care; education and training; prevention; patient, family and community outreach; and program excellence.
1-866-966-1020
Resources for OEF/OIF Veterans
Department of Veterans Affairs
Real Warriors Campaign
Defense Centers of Excellence for Psychological Health and Traumatic Brain Injury
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