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Helping Today's Military Families Succeed in Wartime and Beyond

Helping Today's Military Families Succeed in Wartime and Beyond. Expanding Child Care. Expanding our reach into the communities where our families live. Making care available to all components and their families Building capacity and linking resources throughout the states.

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Helping Today's Military Families Succeed in Wartime and Beyond

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  1. Helping Today's Military Families Succeed in Wartime and Beyond

  2. Expanding Child Care • Expanding our reach into the communities where our families live. • Making care available to all components and their families • Building capacity and linking resources throughout the states

  3. Expanding Childcare • OSD is beginning a process to • Identify care providers who want to serve military families. • Evaluate their level of quality and • Provide training and technical assistance to increase their level of quality. The focus is on where families live

  4. Cascade County Mapping the States Lewis and Clark County Yellowstone County MONTANA AD – Active Duty (0-5) - Children 0-5yrs G – Guard (6-12) - Children 6-12yrs R- Reserves (13-18) - Children 13-18yrs

  5. Issue: Frequent moves = many schools! Also, anxiety of deployment…. Criteria: States participate in an interstate compact providing a uniform policy, at the state and local level, to resolve challenges for military children. Compact: Developed in conjunction with Council of State Governments with assistance of 18 stakeholder agencies Compact has the force of law when accepted by state Becomes active when accepted by 10 states – which happened in July Military School Children in Transition

  6. Educational Resources • Guide for Helping Children and Youth Cope with Separation • www.militaryhomefront.dod.mil • Sesame Street “Talk, Listen, Connect” kits • www.militaryonesource.com • Military Youth Coping with Separation Video • www.aap.org/sections/unifserv/deployment/index.html • Coming Together Around Military Families: • www.zerotothree.org • Operation Purple Camps • www.nmfa.org

  7. Mr. Poe and FriendsDiscuss Family Reunion After Deployment • DVD designed to help families address the challenges of separation and reunion on school-age children due to deployment • Mr. Poe was born in 2003 through the combined efforts of an Army Reserve Chaplain and an Army Pediatrician • Target audience: • 6-11 year old children • Military families • Family support teams • Community resource teams • 12 training modules - Dads, Grandparents, Moms & Kids, Friends, etc.

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