Suicide Prevention and Working with Military Families
This webinar explores culturally competent best practices and provides appropriate approaches used within the military to discuss suicide without stigma.
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Navigating Deployment: Strategies to Help Military Families
About This Webinar: How do families manage deployments and family separation? The short answer is that it’s a process – or, perhaps more aptly, a cycle. This webinar explores the deployment cycle and associated challenges from the perspective of different family members and identifies circumstances and family contexts that exacerbate...
Understanding the Social and Structural Drivers of Food and Nutrition Insecurity
This discussion will highlight the social and structural determinants of food and nutrition insecurity and examine strategies and approaches for improving food access and equity in military families as well as all families.
Suicide Prevention and Intimate Partner Violence
This webinar presentation provides an overview of the intersection of suicide and IPV risk factors and discover prevention strategies for advocates and clinicians serving the military community.
Retirement Benefit Basics: The DoD Survivor Benefit Plan
Be prepared to educate your clients by furthering your understanding of the DoD Survivor Benefit Plan (SBP) and the Reserve Component SBP (RCSPB).
Increasing Children’s Fruit and Vegetable Exposure: Tools for Practitioners Serving Families Experiencing Limited Income
This webinar provides steps providers can implement to improve health and developmental outcomes for children in low-income families.
Supporting Military Families with LGBTQ+ Youth with Cathy Marcello
In this episode (Season 4, Episode 2), co-hosts Jessica Beckendorf and Bob Bertsch talk with Cathy Marcello about the challenges faced by military families with LGBTQ+ youth and all of us can do to support those families. Cathy leads the MilPride program for the Modern Military Association of America, the nation's largest LGBTQ+ military and veteran non-profit.
Military Culture: A Guide for Extension Professionals
This course provides an overview of military culture and the unique needs of military families to help Extension professionals better understand how to recognize, engage, ask, and deliver education in the community.
Introduction to Social Justice Lenses for Family Well-Being
This course explores a social justice lens through which family service providers can view prohibitive barriers that negatively impact family well-being.
Family Service Providers: Recognizing and Responding to Inequities
This course addresses how family service providers can learn to identify and assess impediments to family well-being through a social justice lens.
Social Justice and Military Families
The final course of the 2022 Academy series addresses the specific work of social justice advocacy among family service providers, in the context of military families and their health and well-being.
Field Guide to Family Advocacy: Knowledge, Resources, and Supports for Military Families of Children with Disabilities
The four-part asynchronous and interactive course focuses on the rights of young children with disabilities in military families, eligibility for special education programs and services for children with disabilities available within military systems, and strategies to support military families as they navigate these systems in military contexts.
