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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 familes.
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
Provides 10 tips for coping in a time of war.
Helping Children Cope During Deployment
A Courage to Care fact sheet written by experts in military medicine and family trauma who understand the impact of deployment on families.
Family Reintegration/Redeployment/Homecoming
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
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
An American Psychological Association produced handout.
Resilience in a Time of War: Tips for Parents & Teachers of Elementary School
An American Psychological Association produced handout.
Resilience in a Time of War: Tips for Parents
and Teachers of Teens
an American Psychological Association produced handout.
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.
Helping Children Cope When a Loved One is on Military Deployment
Coping and Building Resilience
Building Resilience in Children and Adolescents
Videos
Making Your Reunion Work
Army Community Services
Video for service members and families about what to expect when reuniting following deployment.
Military Child and Youth Deployment Support Video Program
Talk, Listen, Connect: Helping Families During Military Deployment
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
Deployment Health and Family Readiness Library
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.
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