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Care Considerations for the Transgender and Gender-Diverse Military Community

This webinar focuses on applying affirmative, evidence-based best practices for care delivery for Transgender and Gender-Diverse adults in the military community. Join to receive a review of research-informed techniques and content geared towards skill development for delivering specialty care services. This session provides ample opportunity for discussion around the application of these techniques.

Free

Applying a Positive Youth Development Framework to Increase Resiliency and Thrive

Disruptions like the pandemic create a new, different landscape for youth development. For some youths, it is the best of times; for others, it is the worst of times; for many, it is both. This webinar addresses two important questions for service providers: 1) How are military youth faring in this changing landscape? And 2) How do we assess and rebuild programs with a youth development framework that builds resilience and reduces the risk of military youth?

Free

Making Intentional and Deeper Connections

In this episode (Season 4, Episode 5), co-hosts Jessica Beckendorf and Bob Bertsch talk about making intentional and deeper connections - one of the eight ways of cultivating community resilience that we identified in their “Connecting Communities in Asset-based Community Recovery” project.

The Cooperative Extension System: A Force Multiplier for Military Readiness

The Cooperative Extension System is well-positioned to serve military families dispersed throughout the United States. Through the land-grant university system, military family service providers can be supported by the research-driven Cooperative Extension System to boost the work they do to support family well-being.

This course explores the history, accessibility, and programs of the Cooperative Extension System.

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.

Childhood Trauma: Understanding, Supporting, and Preventing

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.

Building Networks to Alleviate Food Insecurity

This workshop uses the Spectrum of Prevention framework to encourage participants to identify and view programs and services in their communities in ways that can support efforts to reduce food insecurity among military families.

Free

Hawaii’s Food Security Collaboration for Military Families

The Food Security Hawaii Working Group is an amazing cross-sector collaboration to address food security issues military families are facing, In this episode (Season 4, Episode 6), Bob Bertsch talks with Arletta Eldridge Thompson, Health Promotion Coordinator for the 15th Medical Group for Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam;  Lorna Souza with the Hawaii Air National Guard Airman and Family Readiness Program; and Kina Mahi, Director of Advocacy and Strategic Partnerships for the Hawaii Foodbank about the challenges families in Hawaii are dealing with and how people are collaborating to address them.