Communication for Teens
Community and Installation
Connecting to the Community
Joining a community of military spouses gives you a place where you can ask questions, offer support and make life-long friends. Here are a few ideas on how to build your network of friends and fellow military spouses.
Three C’s of Communication
Parent / Child Communication
Communication and Assertiveness Training
Military Community Demographics
Tips to Improve Communication in a Relationship
Effective communication is a top challenge couples face. Fortunately, communication in a relationship is a skill that can be learned and one that grows stronger with practice.
About Joining Community Forces
Community Forces focus the efforts of local providers with a common goal: to strengthen the local military community. Because Community Forces work in communities around the country, they are uniquely positioned to find and consolidate the best local resources, and that means providing better and faster assistance to service members, military families and veterans when they need it.
How to Successfully Communicate as a Couple
For service members, a loving, resilient marriage is both a matter of personal happiness and family readiness.
How to Build a Community Force
Whether you want to create a new community force, join one or improve the community force in your state, you can find what you need to take action.
Community Capacity Building Courses
Joining the Military Community – The Essentials
As you settle in, you’ll want to take advantage of the numerous ways to connect to your new military community and neighbors. That means making friends, doing fun activities during your free time, finding resources to learn hobbies and knowing where to turn when you need help.
Tips for Communicating in a Long-Distance Relationship
Geographic separations can be hard on military couples. But with planning and commitment, it is possible to stay in close touch while apart.
Job Opportunities in Your Local Community
Find workforce development career center websites and veterans representatives by state and territory.
Coronavirus Updates for Our Military Community
The Department of Defense is working closely with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the U.S. Department of State to provide support in dealing with the coronavirus disease outbreak. Check back for the latest information on COVID-19. We will be updating this page regularly.
About Building Healthy Military Communities
The BHMC pilot is a multi-year initiative that aims to better understand unique challenges faced by geographically dispersed service members and their families that may impact their readiness, resiliency and well-being.
Prevent Domestic Violence: Strengthen Your Community
No relationship is perfect. All partnerships or marriages lie somewhere on the scale of healthy and unhealthy relationships.
Freelancing in the Gig Economy: An Overview for the Military Community
For military spouses and service members, the growing gig economy provides an opportunity to earn extra income. Gig work also offers flexibility and independence that you may not find in some traditional or part-time jobs. And whether you walk dogs or drive for a ride-booking service, your alternate business may move with you when you PCS.