Total Force Fitness focuses on the service member’s entire health throughout their career. Total Force Fitness focuses on enhancing eight dimensions of wellness for service members. This webinar discusses the financial fitness dimension and how economic insecurity can affect the other wellness dimensions including nutritional fitness. This webinar will also highlight initiatives to support financial fitness and food security.
Learning Objectives:
- Define the eight dimensions of wellness in the Total Force Fitness concept.
- Describe how the eight dimensions of wellness affect each other.
- Outline the risk factors for food insecurity for the U.S. military
- Describe methods for identifying and assisting economic and/or food-insecure service members.
This webinar is part of the 2024 Military Family Readiness Academy, Economic Readiness and Military Family Well-Being. With a new series and focus area each year, the Academy takes a multidisciplinary approach to a complex issue faced by family service providers in their work. Join other programming opportunities in this series: https://oneop.org/series/2024mfra/
A case story is used throughout the course and webinars in the 2024 Military Family Readiness Academy. This case story provides an opportunity to examine resources and services within the Military Family Readiness System. This family’s example asks service providers to consider the skills they need to support family well-being through the lens of economic security. Read the case story here.