Financial challenges significantly affect families’ ability to ensure adequate nutrition. This can often manifest as food insecurity, a social or economic condition of uncertain access to food.
Read More
Recent Blog Posts
The FY25 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) marks a pivotal step in enhancing the quality of life for military families by prioritizing housing, childcare, and career support for spouses. With key investments aimed at stability and opportunity, the NDAA recognizes that resilient military families are essential to a ready and effective force. In this blog, we’ll break down what these changes mean for service members, spouses, and the professionals who support them.
Written by: Rachel Brauner Military caregivers play a critical role in supporting service members and veterans (SMVs), often assuming long-term responsibilities that significantly affect their own well-being (Ramchand et al., 2024). But what happens when the caregiving ends? A recent longitudinal study by Brickell et al., (2023) offers new insight...
Read More
Implementing effective financial risk management strategies can serve as a buffer to maintain financial security across military family transitions.
Promoting military fathers’ positive involvement in caring for and raising children is a protective factor and promotes positive family functioning. Children exhibit fewer risk behaviors and engage in healthier, positive social skills when their parents are actively involved (El Nokali et al., 2010).
Social-emotional learning, or SEL, is a process in which children and adults learn to foster children’s emotional and social competence (Ng & Bull, 2018). According to Saarni (1999), emotional competence is “demonstrating one’s self-efficacy in emotion-eliciting transactions” (p. 2).
Written by: Nicole Rawlinson Change, transition, move, relocate: these are all words in the regular vernacular of the average military-connected family. While many have learned to take transition and change as a constant in life, and in some ways have found ways to embrace those changes, transitional challenges, especially coming...
Read More
Written by: Rachel Brauner Military life presents unique stressors for families such frequent relocations, long deployments, and the emotional toll of service-related trauma can deeply impact not just service members, but also their spouses and children. A new study published in Military Behavioral Health (Wasserman et al., 2023) highlights a powerful...
Read More
Youth mental health concerns are complex. Frequently, concerns are attributed to hormones, stress at school, or just having a “teenage attitude.” With military youth, it is important to remember that mental health concerns can sometimes be exacerbated by parental deployment or repeated relocations. It can be hard for military children to find stable sources of support when their support systems are constantly changing.
Have you heard the buzz about SOFAs lately? And no, not the kind you sit on. The Defense Department recently clarified key points about Status of Forces Agreements (SOFAs), which impact military spouses working overseas. As a provider, you play a vital role in helping them understand these updates and make informed employment choices while stationed OCONUS.
