Every impacted individual has a unique experience with their traumatic brain injury (TBI). From the person experiencing TBI, their children, partners, relationships with loved ones, and their greater community, TBIs affect the entire ‘village.’ This reality is all too true for military service members and their families.
There is no doubt that deployment can have a significant impact on a military family’s finances. Part one of this series focused on helping military families prepare finances for deployment.
The stressful challenges of financial management and balanced budgeting faced by military families can be exacerbated by deployment if they are not handled properly. Personal Finance Managers (PFMs) can assist military families in preparing financially for deployment.
Scams and frauds are pervasive today thanks to the internet and social media. Victims can be reached and defrauded online by bad actors located far away. The holiday season ups the ante even more. People are busy, tired, and distracted
During the virtual 2021 AFCPE Symposium, there were a number of sessions designed for practitioners who provide financial education and counseling programs for service members and their families.
The Division for Early Childhood of the Council of Exceptional Children, the leading professional organization in EI/ECSE, spearheaded efforts to develop the EI/ECSE standards. It is important for all early childhood professionals to be familiar with these standards to provide the support needed for individual children with disabilities and their families. In this blog series, we discuss each standard, prompt questions for reflection, and provide tips and resources that professionals can use to ensure their practices align with the EI/ECSE standards.
Personal finance research informs high-quality financial education briefings, publications, and 1:1 financial counseling sessions. Below are findings and implications for practice from four recent studies:
Diabetes is known to be one of the leading causes of death in the United States. With many physical symptoms including increased thirst, frequent urination, extreme hunger, as well as unexplained weight loss, diabetes is considered one of the most serious health concerns around the world.
Military couples are very resilient and roll with the changes. They face many challenges that civilian couples rarely deal with, like multiple moves, deployments, and various other transitions. Challenges might also take the form of physical injury or invisible wounds of war, like traumatic brain injury, and PTSD. Sometimes spouses and children must take on caregiver roles as well.
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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