An organizational collective of groups and individuals aimed towards supporting mindfulness training as a necessary component of youth education.
Our Military Kids provides tangible support to children of deployed National Guard and Reserve personnel as well as to children of severely injured service members through grants for enrichment activities and tutoring. Such activities help these children cope with the stress of having a parent in a war zone or recovering from injury at home.
STOMP is the only parent training and information center for military families providing support and advice to military parents with special needs children. Parents with special need children face tremendous challenges STOMP’s commitment is to empower these families in their vital roles as advocates, providing training, support, and information.
Students at the Center offers resources designed to aid everyone involved in providing quality education for military children.
Tutor.com is a tutoring program for military families; experts are available 24/7 online and able to help in more than 16 subjects. Tutor.com is available in an app format as well so you can use it on the go and connect on a one-on-one basis. It features summer activities for military children to stay connected throughout the summer.
United Through Reading is a non-profit organization dedicated to unite military families facing physical separation by facilitating the bonding experience of reading aloud together. It offers the deployed parents the opportunity to be video-recorded reading storybooks to their children, which can ease the stress of separation.
Recognizes the challenges of our Soldiers and their Families by offering quality programs for children, youth and students, CYS supports the Army Family Covenant by reducing the conflict between mission readiness and parental responsibility.
Zero to Three proudly supports military and veteran families. They work to increase awareness and collaboration throughout military and civilian communities so that professionals who work with parents and children can more effectively care for babies, toddlers, and their military-connected families.
Military families Near and Far have information and resources created to help parents and caregivers facing the challenges of deployment, homecomings, changes, and grief. Whether your family is near or far this site can help bring you closer together offering tips for making the most of your family’s experience.
The Compact addresses key educational transition issues encountered by military families including enrollment, placement, attendance, eligibility, and graduation. The goal of the compact is to replace the widely varying policies affecting transitioning military students.
This Partnership program provides information and support to increase understanding of the unique needs of military children as well as academic support to improve educational opportunities and outcomes for military children. It works collaboratively with the Department of Education in efforts to ease the transition of military children and by providing resources to LEA's that educate military children.
Military Kids Connect (MKC) is an online community for military children (ages 6-17 year old) that provide access to age-appropriate resources to support children dealing with the unique psychological challenges of military life. MKC offers informative activities, fun games, helpful videos, and an online community that can build and reinforce understanding, resilience, and coping skills.
This site was specifically designed for youth with family in the military. This website covers topics such as dealing with deployment and moving to a new location as well as everyday youth topics such as divorce, exercise, and money management. This site has information for elementary, middle, and high school aged youth.
This site allows you to read interactive books, play games and do activities with your child in real time from anywhere in the world. The site allows users to see and hear one another while they read books, play games and do art activities together -- all in real time. Free for military families.
This organization advocates for benefits and programs that strengthen and protect uniformed services families and reflect the Nation’s respect for their service.
When National Guard, Reserve, and other military families living in civilian communities become mobilized, their children experience the stress of being a military kid. OMK collaborates with groups across the state to provide sustainable local support services to military youth before, during, and after their family members are deployed.
Here's a universe of things to do: useful tools for your homework and paper-writing projects, video games, sport and art activities, and a bunch of other information and entertainment that will keep you coming back for more.
ASYMCA runs over 150 programs around the world to ease the burden of the families of junior-enlisted military personnel. Some are carried out at single branch ASYMCA locations. Others operate at multiple branch locations and are customized to meet the specific needs of that community.
Great, Interesting and entertaining ideas and ways for children to cope and interact with their deployed parent or loved one.
The Military Child Education Coalition is a non-profit, world-wide organization that identifies the challenges facing the highly mobile military child, increases awareness of these challenges in military and educational communities, and initiates and implements programs to meet the challenges. MCEC's goal is to level the educational playing field for military children wherever they are located around the world, and to serve as a model for all highly mobile children.