Empathetic communication allows for deeper connections, clearer communication, and trust-building for stronger relationships. For service providers, professional goals often include understanding people’s experiences, accessing needs, and providing personalized treatment plans and services.
The Exceptional Family Member Program (EFMP) providers play a critical role in supporting military families who have dependents with special needs. However, it’s essential for providers to create clear boundaries to ensure that parents and caregivers are empowered to advocate for their care recipients.
Self-awareness allows financial service providers to respond compassionately to themselves and their clients regarding financial topics and concerns, helping providers identify their potential triggers and biases around money.
Working in a high-stress environment requires the use of stress-management techniques to mitigate long-term stress impacts on a service member’s body, mind, and relationships. One such strategy that you can use daily in your work with military families is mindfulness. The Mayo Clinic describes mindfulness as a meditation practice to increase awareness of yourself, and your feelings and emotions in the present moment without judgment. Mindfulness reduces stress by incorporating breathing methods to relax the body and mind.
Military spouses face many challenges in obtaining and maintaining full- and part-time employment. The federal government is committed to helping military spouses find rewarding careers.
While financial literacy is paramount, families also should look for ways to manage their collective resources. These range from: time and energy, to personal belongings and the spaces in our homes, to relationships. By managing our resources wisely, we are inadvertently managing our stress levels and mental health.
Breast milk is recommended as the best source of nutrition for infants. It is safe and contains important nutrients necessary for infant growth and development.
Military families can plan for dependent care expenses by contributing a specific amount to the Dependent Care Flexible Spending Account (DCFSA) each pay period. These contributions are deducted automatically before taxes. Identify how it works, eligible expenses, contribution limits, and more.
When caregivers provide positive and responsive caregiving, children demonstrate improved developmental skills including social emotional skills, (Kim & Kochanska, 2012). Developmentally supportive engagement between caregivers and children is often overlooked during daily activities and routines such as bedtime, mealtime, or riding in the car (Kim & Kochanska, 2012; Song et al., 2017; Van Keer et al., 2017).
National Guard and Reservist families experience military life in a unique way as compared to their active duty counterparts. Most National Guard and Reservist families do not live on or near military bases like active duty service members do. Living near a military base provides access to a community of other military families and providers who understand the culture of military life.
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