Military
Education, relocation, parenting, stress – you name it – Military OneSource can help with just about anything. Available by phone or online, their free service is provided by the Department of Defense for active-duty, Guard, and Reserve service members and their families. It is completely private and confidential, with few exceptions.
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 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.
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.
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.
Military Child Initiative, a research-based evidence, has identified the highly protective role schools can play in moderating the academic, social and health behavior risks of military youth. Their goal is to move research-based practical approaches into schools and school districts so that all children and youth can thrive, especially those who are most socially mobile and emotionally vulnerable.
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.
Easterseals provides opportunities for people of all ages with a range of disabilities to achieve their full potential.
Great, Interesting and entertaining ideas and ways for children to cope and interact with their deployed parent or loved one.
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.
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.
The American Legion offers a number of scholarships and other resources to assist young people in their pursuit of higher education. There are opportunities for everyone, including kin of wartime veterans and participants in Legion programs.