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Millennium Cohort Family Study: The Impact of Military Life

This webinar will share the findings of the Millennium Cohort Family Study which provides an understanding of the military experience and its impact on the health and well-being of Service members and their families. 

End Stage Renal Disease: Balancing Labs and Food for Quality of Life

This webinar provides an update on the nutrition care of clients on dialysis and discusses practical tips to assist clients in meeting their nutrition goals. Additionally, the presenter will review client-centered partnering to help prevent malnutrition, achieve weight goals, optimize laboratory values and improve symptom management.

Preventing the Onset of Youth Problem Sexual Behaviors

One of the many troubling aspects of child sexual victimization is the high proportion of teens who engage younger children in sexual behaviors or peers in coerced sexual behaviors. Juvenile justice records indicate that 14 years of age is the modal age of children exhibiting problematic sexual behaviors (PSB) toward prepubescent children (Finkelhor et al., 2009; Snyder, 2000). These statistics may seem surprising until we consider that early adolescence is when most children begin engaging in sexual behaviors with others and begin navigating sexual relationships.

Recognizing and Responding to Inequity with Allison DeMarco

For this episode, we talked to Allison DeMarco, author of the upcoming MFRA course, "What Can Family Service Providers Do to Recognize and Respond to Inequities?" Allison is an advanced research scientist at Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute and adjunct faculty at the School of Social Work at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her research focuses on racial equity, poverty, neighborhood effects, work and family, and well-being for residents of rural communities.

Brain Health: Understanding Military-Related TBIs

This webinar examines the VA and Military Health System (MHS) TBI pathway of care, current DoD understanding of concussion and symptom clusters, and provides resources for the management of concussion.

Understanding Buy Now, Pay Later Services

In this webinar, experts from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) provide important information for Personal Financial Managers (PFMs) on Buy Now, Pay Later (BNPL) services. As Buy Now, Pay Later services become more common with online and in-store shopping, it is important for service members and their families to understand the product and how service member consumer protections apply.

Creating Equity During Family Visits

About This Webinar: The first session in the four-part Going Virtual series engages participants in reflective thinking around how their own beliefs and experiences shape their expectations for interactions with families and behaviors in virtual settings. Discussion includes strategies to work with families in ways that build caregivers’ capacities while...

Assessing Malnutrition in the Adult Population: The Role of the RDN

Registered dietitians are at the forefront of recognizing, diagnosing, and treating malnutrition in inpatient care. This is accomplished through appropriate screening, assessment (including the nutrition-focused physical exam), documentation, and providing nutrition interventions. This webinar provides information and tools to help with screening and assessing malnutrition in adults to identify those at risk.

Social Justice and Military Families

For this episode, we talked to the authors of the upcoming MFRA course, "Social Justice and Military Families," Eduardo Gonzalez, Jr., Julika von Stackelberg, and Keith Tidball. The course they co-authored addresses the specific work of social justice advocacy among military service providers, in the context of military families and their health and well-being, and examines the concept of belonging and inclusion through a framework of self-care, healing, and resilience..

Spouse Employment and Family Financial Readiness

Frequent moves and deployments can create unique challenges for a military spouse’s career progression and income, impacting the family’s financial resilience. However, military spouses have access to education and career guidance, comprehensive resources, and tools worldwide to assist them in overcoming these challenges.