This course explores a social justice lens through which family service providers can view prohibitive barriers that negatively impact family well-being.

This course addresses how family service providers can learn to identify and assess impediments to family well-being through a social justice lens.

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.

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.

The interactive course includes four units that cover the prevalence and impact of trauma, the manifestation of trauma in young children, providing trauma-informed supports, and preventing future trauma. It is designed to be a high-level overview of the topic and a starting point for professionals working with young children and their families.

In this three-part module series, you will learn foundational information related to ethics, how ethics is a part of cultural competence, and gain strategies and resources for making ethical decisions that are culturally competent and support your work with young children with disabilities and their family as an early childhood care and education professionals.

This foundational course will provide an overview of the impacts of financial readiness on military family well-being. Emphasis will be placed on understanding the financial foundations of economic security, including social and economic drivers required to reach and sustain improved quality of life among military families.