The Military and the Transition to Adulthood
The authors examine the effect of military service on the transition to adulthood. They highlight changes since World War II in the role of the military in the lives of young adults, focusing...

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Understanding the Experience of Military Families and Their Returning War Fighters: Military Literature and Resource Review
The National Center on Family Homelessness recently released Understanding the Experience of Military Families and Their Returning War Fighters: Military Literature and Resource Review. Military...

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American Association of School Administrators has released a toolkit on Supporting the Military Child
The American Association of School Administrators (AASA) has released a toolkit on Supporting the Military Child to help school leaders meet the needs of children whose parents are deployed or in...

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The Wounded Warrior Handbook: A Resource Guide for Returning Veterans
This resource helps wounded soldiers and their families navigate through the many steps required to receive the care they need and deserve. Comprehensive and easy to use, the handbook compiles...

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The Imperative of a New Approach to Warrior and Veteran Care
With each day, more families are coping with the mounting burden of repeated combat deployments. Increasingly, those burdens include troubling mental health challenges and, in the worst-case...

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Army Comprehensive Transition Plan (for Warrior in Transition)
To support each Warrior in Transition’s (WT’s) return to the force or transition to Veteran status, the Army created a systematic framework called the Comprehensive Transition Plan (CTP). The CTP is...

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Children of Military Service Members Resource Guide
Deployment not only affects our military service members individually, but also has a significant effect on their families, especially the children. From toddlers to teenagers, children may face...

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Year of the Air Force Family 2009 Survey of Active-Duty Spouses
Air Force leaders care not only about the well-being of their airmen but also that of their families. Already aware of the stresses of military life, the Air Force has already created a number of...

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"School Transitions Among Military Adolescents: A Qualitative Study of Stress and Coping
The research on highly mobile military adolescents has produced mixed findings. Whereas early descriptive studies reported that adolescents experiencing multiple residential moves exhibited symptoms...

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Free Talk Kit for Parents of Military Children
The Partnership for a Drug-Free America, together with the National Military Family Association and the National Association of School Nurses, announced the launch of new online tools to assist...

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