Events

Preschool is the perfect time to help children learn flexibility, problem-solving, and self-help skills. These skills can help preschoolers handle moves and changes throughout their lives. This webinar shares ways to prepare young children for changes in caregivers, daily routines, and friends when they move. Professionals will learn how to...

This engaging session explores how adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) in military families can age well. It will examine age-related health needs, living arrangements and family caregiving, and practical strategies for supporting this population. Learn how to address current and future needs of people with IDD. Learning Objectives:...

When elementary students change schools, even motivated students can struggle. They may lose interest in learning, miss their old friends, and not get the help they need right away. This webinar provides practical strategies to keep children engaged, connected, and successful through relocation and other school transitions. Learning Objectives: Identify...

The Defense Department’s Strengthening Food Security in the Force: Strategy and Roadmap outlines six lines of effort to strengthen food security for military service members and their families with increasing access to healthy food as the first line of effort. The military nutrition environment includes all foods, drinks, and dietary supplements available on military installations and ships thereby creating the food environment where service members live, work, and train.

Middle schoolers face big changes in identity, independence, and peer relationships. These challenges that can be made harder by deployments and relocations. This session will equip professionals to help students advocate for themselves, keep friendships across distance, and access extracurricular activities soon after a move. We'll highlight the role of...

Caregivers of individuals living with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias (ADRD) often ask: What can we do to protect brain health—or slow decline? While there is no cure for Alzheimer’s disease, growing evidence suggests that dietary patterns and lifestyle behaviors play a meaningful role in supporting cognitive health and reducing...