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Apr 12

An image of two young children in a dark room holding hands and staring out a window

Go Beyond the Webinar| Supporting Parents and Children Through Hazards and Disasters

By Jason Jowers Community Engagement

On March 10th, 2021, OneOp hosted the webinar, “Supporting Parents and Children Through Hazards and Disasters, ” part of the 2021 Military Family Readiness Academy series Disaster and Hazard Readiness in Action.

Apr 11

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April: Month of the Military Child

By Bree Petracca Community Engagement

By: Sara Croymans, MEd, Extension Educator, University of Minnesota Extension and PI for OneOp Family Transitions. Military Children According to the 2019 Demographics Profile there were 1,644,456 total military children in 2019. More military children are younger, as shown in the pie chart below. Celebrating Military Children Have you taken...

Apr 10

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Adapting Child & Youth Programming During COVID – An Interview with Laura Groeneweg

By Bree Petracca Community Engagement

OneOp (MFLN) Family Transitions team acknowledges that COVID has created many challenges for Military Family Service Providers this past year as they have attempted to continue to provide services to military Service members and their families. Service providers have had to be extremely creative and flexible in delivering programs that...

Apr 08

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Intuitive Eating for Improved Health and Wellness

By OneOp Health and Well-Being

As Evelyn Tribole, MS, RDN, CEDRD-S explains, “Intuitive Eating is a self-care eating framework, which integrates instinct, emotion, and rational thought and was created by two dietitians, Evelyn Tribole and Elyse Resch in 1995”. Intuitive eating is a non-diet approach to establishing a healthy relationship between the mind and body.

Apr 06

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Children and Money: Building Financial Capability

By Kristen Jowers Health and Well-Being

By Barbara O’Neill, Ph.D., CFP®, AFC® [email protected] Personal Finance Managers (PFMs) do not only help service members with their finances, they consider everyone in a military family. Many parents have questions about children and money. Should children be given an allowance? Should they have to work for it? How do...

Apr 05

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Henry Gallagher, C.C. Gallagher's son at Fort Bliss, TX

5 Ways to Celebrate Military Children During the Month of April

By Jason Jowers Military Service and Family Life

This week’s OneOp blog post is a guest blog contribution from Christine “C.C.” Gallagher, Founder of Military Quality of Life Consulting LLC. C.C. is no stranger to the major life changes and often unexpected transitions that comes with living in a military family.

Apr 03

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Connecting Communities in Asset-based Community Recovery

By Bree Petracca Community Engagement

The COVID-19 pandemic has presented some really difficult challenges, but it also has revealed some opportunities for building better systems and communities. The Asset-based Community Recovery (ABCR) Framework can help us recognize those opportunities and take action to create our future.

Mar 31

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Good Things Come in Threes!

By Robyn Community Engagement

Did you know that good things come in threes? Well, they do! Did you also know that YOU are one of the three things that support interactions between a caregiver and a child? In fact, you are a very important part of the good things that come in threes. One factor shown to differentiate more successful child outcomes from less successful ones is the extent to which our focus is aimed at supporting and enhancing the roles of caregivers as competent and confident caregivers of children.

Mar 30

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Supporting Women Through the Pandemic

By Kristen Jowers Health and Well-Being

By Molly C. Herndon The recently coined term “shecession” reflects the tremendous financial burden the COVID-19 pandemic has placed on women. Women are more represented among service-industry jobs that were among the first to be cut during the early days of the pandemic. The grim data from the US Bureau…

Mar 29

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Resource Discovery: Sesame Street’s New Coming Together Initiative

By Kalin Goble Community Engagement

Last week, Sesame Street launched a new suite of recourses developed on racial justice. Sesame Street’s new Coming Together initiative focuses on discussions around racism. Sesame Street has introduced two new characters, Wes and his father Elijah, as part of their new “ABC’s of Racial Literacy” series.