Personal finance research informs high-quality financial education briefings, publications, and one-on-one financial counseling sessions with clients. Below are findings and implications for practice from three recent studies:
As service professionals who work directly with military families, we have a great responsibility to support the children who accompany service members. Military parents have unique stressors such as deployments, frequent relocations, and the demands of their military duties that require special attention when managing their child’s challenging behaviors.
Strong collaborative partnerships have been shown to improve many different educational outcomes for students. Yet, the work and skills required for strong partnerships are often overlooked. Let’s consider just how much planning goes into one successful school day. Each day, when a child wakes up, a family member usually has already begun putting into action the plan. They may be thinking about meals before, during, or after school or transportation to and from school, or homework and projects that need to be ready to go!
Military service members can collect both Social Security benefits and military retirement benefits, and in many cases, Social Security is a key component of military families’ future income. Therefore, it is important that service members regularly check their personal Social Security statement to learn about future benefits and review reported earnings.
By Anne Hogan According to the CDC, Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) affects 15% of adults, mostly over the age of 65 (2022). While CKD does not have a cure, one of the best ways to slow the disease progression is to receive Medical Nutrition Therapy (MNT) from a Registered Dietitian…
On March 1st, 2023, OneOp hosted a webinar called “Increasing Children’s Fruit and Vegetable Exposure: Tools for Practitioners Serving Families Experiencing Limited Income.” This webinar featured Dr. Julie Rutledge and Taren Swindle, two fantastic academic professors that shared their expertise on working with families experiencing limited income and how that affects food security and proper nutrition.
Experiential learning is more than just a hands-on approach to learning. For one thing, experiential learning doesn’t always mean physically using your hands. Learning can be just as fun and effective when engaging in a discussion as when playing a game or making muffins.
By Megan Ng Broccoli can be equivalent to a monster under the bed for some children. For some families, getting their little one to eat a fruit or vegetable hardly ever goes down without a fight. These revolts against fruits and vegetables are quite common in children ages two to…
Personal Financial Managers frequently find themselves in the position of encouraging clients to adopt positive financial behaviors such as increased savings and reduced debt and spending. This is not always easy.
This material is based upon work supported by the National Institute of Food and Agriculture, U.S. Department of Agriculture, and the Office of Military Family Readiness Policy, U.S. Department of Defense under Award Number 2023-48770-41333.
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