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Supporting Military Spouse Employment: Cognitive Information Processing Career Theory

By Community Engagement

Military spouses face frequent relocations, systemic barriers, and emotional strain, making career growth challenging. This post explores how cognitive information processing (CIP) theory offers an evidence-based framework for addressing both the practical and psychological dimensions of career decision-making. By integrating structure, self-knowledge, and emotional awareness, CIP provides career practitioners with tools to better support military spouses in building agency and clarity amid ongoing change.

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Financial Secrets in Relationships: Implications for Counselors and Financial Educators

By Community Engagement

Financial secrecy, whether it’s hidden debt, undisclosed spending, or secret savings, can be a source of conflict in relationships, creating rifts that spill into financial and therapeutic counseling sessions. When couples avoid discussing money or start keeping financial secrets, the consequences can have ripple effects in other areas of their relationship. What drives these behaviors, and how can service providers help couples navigate financial secrecy?

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Spouses on the Frontline: Battling Depression in the Fight for Employment

By Health and Well-Being

Employment challenges faced by military spouses can significantly affect mental health, with research showing higher rates of depressive symptoms among those who are unemployed or underemployed. This blog explores how frequent relocations, military-related stress, and barriers to employment intersect—and highlights resources that can help support spouses’ well-being.

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Building Resilience Through Teamwork Skills

By Community Engagement

Teamwork is about more than working with others; it’s about building cooperation, trust, and shared responsibility. When you can reliably contribute to a team, you build confidence. That confidence helps you bounce back from challenges. In other words, strong teamwork supports resilience. In many workplaces, jobs aren’t done alone. Employers look for people who can collaborate, share tasks, communicate differences, and support each other. In this blog, learn how you can boost collaboration and teamwork in the workplace.

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The New Student Welcome Wagon: Creating a Positive School Environment for Military Kids

By Community Engagement

Moving on average every 2-3 years, military kids face change quite often (DOD, 2023). These changes are often familiar, yet uniquely challenging. One of these often familiar changes is military family relocation to a new military installation, a new community, and a new school. Changes like these lead to the disruption of established friendships and can also affect academic progress.

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Ten Tips for Buying a Car

By Military Service and Family Life

Some purchases are considered “big ticket,” meaning they cost more than a single paycheck. According to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (2025), service members often borrow more, put less down, pay higher APRs, and take longer loan terms than the general population. Explore ten tips to guide service members through the car-buying process.

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Key Takeaways: Supporting the Employment of Foreign-Born & OCONUS Military Spouses

By Military Service and Family Life

This post-webinar recap highlights a recent session focused on expanding global talent by improving employment opportunities for foreign-born and OCONUS military spouses. Participants—including service providers, career counselors, and community leaders—examined the unique challenges these spouses encounter and explored practical, locally informed strategies to address them. The discussion emphasized how strong partnerships and accessible resources are essential to helping spouses build meaningful, sustainable careers.

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Bridging Differences to Promote Middle School Friendships

By Health and Well-Being

Friendship and belonging are essential for middle school students (grades 6-9), shaping their well-being, identity formation, and academic engagement (Tsou et al., 2024). For neurodiverse youth, including children with autism, ADHD, and other developmental disabilities, structured opportunities to connect meaningfully with peers can reduce loneliness and enhance participation in a variety of activities (Hassani et al., 2022; Zanuttini & Little, 2022). Educators can foster belonging by embedding peer-mediated interventions, creating inclusive routines, and elevating student voice in the daily routines that are present in most middle schools (Biggs et al., 2023; Littlefair et al., 2024).

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