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Tips for Building Family Resilience
Article | February 2022
Protective factors are conditions in families and communities that increase your family’s health and well-being.
When A Son or Daughter Deploys
Article | March 2020
Parents can experience a wide range of emotions regarding their son or daughter’s service in the National Guard, from pride in their accomplishments to fear for their safety.
10 Tips for Keeping a Relationship Strong During Deployment and Separation
Article | May 2020
Whether this is the first time or the 20th time that your spouse has been called to active duty, relationships change when a spouse serves away from home.
Staying Connected With Your Child’s Teachers During Your Deployment
Article | March 2022
No matter where you are around the country or the world, you can still support your child’s education. With communication technology and strong interest, you can keep up with their grades and stay in touch with their teachers. Let your children know that school and education are important — whether you’re home or deployed.
When Your Guard or Reserve Service Member is Called to Active Duty
Article | September 2020
Your spouse or partner is preparing for deployment and transitioning from reserve status to active duty. Take advantage of several deployment support programs.
Building Healthy Relationships – The Essentials
Essentials | October 2020
Military OneSource Building Healthy Relationships is designed to help you make your most important relationships even stronger. This free education-based consultation offers a series of personalized coaching sessions to help you set goals and strengthen your bonds with a partner, child, family member or others.
Deployment – Resources
Resources | October 2020
The military has your back during all phases of deployment – from predeployment through reunion and reintegration. Military OneSource and your installation’s. …
Getting the Most from Military Kids Connect
Article | April 2020
Military kids get to develop skill sets other kids never learn. As a parent, that’s your job — helping your kids cope in healthy ways to changing circumstances.
Staying or Moving When Your Spouse is Deployed
Article | August 2021
Your spouse is deploying, and you might be tempted to pack up and move closer to your family.
Keeping Your Family Strong – Essentials
Essentials | December 2018
Dealing with frequent moves, long deployments and major transitions requires stamina and strength. Some families seem to handle the ups and downs better than others. Building resilience – the ability to recover in the face of stress – can help your family deal with the demands of military life.
Military Family Readiness System
Article | June 2021
The Military Family Readiness System supports every service member and family member, regardless of activation status or location, in person, by phone and online.
Parenting Youth and Teens – The Essentials
Essentials | May 2022
As a parent, your job is to raise children and teens to cope in healthy ways to changing circumstances like deployments, moves and new schools. Military OneSource is there to help you parent at every stage, offering guidance on making moves easier for your kids, helping you support your child at school and encouraging you to talk to teens about important topics like substance abuse and managing stress.
Common Relationship Challenges
Article | September 2020
Every couple is unique, but the challenges they face tend to be universal. A first step toward a healthy relationship is accepting that the road will not always be smooth. Recognizing those areas that need attention and knowing when to seek help will let you grow as a couple and forge a strong and enduring bond.
Confidential Non-medical Counseling Provides Support
December 2019
Everyone struggles at one time or another to cope with the pressures of life. For military families, those pressures may be complicated by frequent moves, deployments and separations from loved ones. The Department of Defense makes free, confidential non-medical counseling available to service members and their families to work on issues.
Building Healthy Relationships
Article | April 2021
Make your most important relationships even stronger. This new specialty consultation from Military OneSource helps you deepen relationships with family, friends and others through an education-based consultation.
Exceptional Family Members
November 2018
The National Military Families Association strives to educate military families about their rights and about benefits and services available to them. The association also provides military families. …
Non-medical Counseling – Resources
Resources | October 2020
Military life requires strength, resilience and resourcefulness – and just about everyone, service members and family members alike, could use a little support from time to time to stay emotionally healthy and at your best.
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Deployment Planning: Your Relationship Checklist
Article | August 2021
Have a deployment in your future? This is where you and your partner team up for relationship resilience. Plan, trust, communicate—and be confident you’re ready to support your partner and keep your long-distance relationship strong.
Readiness is Within Your Reach
Article | December 2019
Family Readiness is a critical issue for the Department of Defense. Quality of life and family matters are priority issues for the secretary and the services. The department's ability to assist service members and their families to prepare for separations during short and long-term deployments is paramount to sustaining mission capabilities and mission readiness.
Securing the Homefront: Deployment-Related Legal Paperwork
Article | July 2021
Life in the military is about being ready for deployment. You may be duty-ready, but don’t overlook preparations on the home front. That includes having or updating essential legal documents. Don’t let it slip off your radar before deployment. Do it for your family’s sake.