Health and Well-Being

While building financial skills can be daunting for anyone (at any age), neurodivergence can create unique considerations when learning and acquiring these financial literacy skills. Teaching new skills – whether financial or otherwise – should incorporate individual strengths.

Obesity is a chronic, relapsing, and multifactorial condition that significantly increases the risk of type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease, obstructive sleep apnea, osteoarthritis, and certain types of cancer (Blüher, 2019; Bray, Kim, Wilding, & World Obesity Federation, 2017).

Families play a key role in how kids first learn to interact with others (Maccoby, 2007) and develop eating habits that can last a lifetime (Scaglioni et al., 2018).

Children, teens, and adolescents develop many relationships as they grow. One common relationship is with teachers and other education professionals. It is vital that teachers and school professionals create positive relationships with all students, maintain those positive relationships, and continuously work towards improving teacher-student dynamics.

Military families rely on electronic devices to help manage their lives. Whether it’s connecting with a deployed service member, staying in touch with friends from prior duty stations, attending virtual classes, working remotely, or even something simple like ordering groceries online, devices are constantly in use. Explore ten proactive steps to online privacy for military families.

Working in a high-stress environment requires the use of stress-management techniques to mitigate long-term adverse impacts on a service member’s body, mind, and relationships. One such strategy that you can use daily in your work with military families is mindfulness. The Mayo Clinic describes mindfulness as a meditation practice to increase awareness of yourself, and your feelings and emotions in the present moment without judgment. Mindfulness reduces stress by incorporating breathing methods to relax the body and mind.

Think of your kidneys as the bouncers at the trendiest club in your body. They decide who gets to stay in (the good stuff) and who gets kicked out (the waste). But if the bouncers stop doing their job, things go awry.

Written by: Rachel Brauner Transitioning from military to civilian life can be challenging for any veteran, but for those living along the U.S.–Mexico border, the hurdles are uniquely complex. A recent study published in Healthcare, shines a critical light on the mental health challenges and barriers veterans face in these underserved areas...

Consider the experiences of a military-connected teen: one day, they might be deeply rooted in a community, and the next, they are adapting to a new school system in a different state, simultaneously navigating new social dynamics and the emotional complexities of a parent’s deployment. These multifaceted experiences, while fostering significant adaptability, can also impact social and academic continuity.

This blog discusses support for parents children are impacted by or exhibiting problematic behaviors, such as bullying behaviors.