Resources for Working Effectively with Military Families
Getting Started with Military Partnerships
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NCTSN Child Maltreatment in Military Families: A Fact Sheet for Providers
Details child maltreatment in military families. This fact sheet provides a look at child maltreatment in the military and offers providers the key concepts, findings, and interventions that will support them in their approach to the care of today's military family.
NCTSN Working Effectively with Military Families: 10 Key Concepts All Providers Should Know
Outlines the top ten things to keep in mind when working with military families. This tip sheet includes information on family separation, stigma about mental health care, access to programs, involving peers and civilian providers and more.
NCTSN Best Practices in Military-Informed Care: Innovative Models of Care
Shares examples of how organizations can incorporate military-informed procedures and practices, beginning with asking about service member status and affiliations. This webinar presents service members' viewpoints about their family needs and perspectives as gathered through focus groups with service members and their families and discusses ways to increase engagement and participation in services through effective community outreach and partnerships with military and civilian systems serving military and veteran families.
NCTSN Webinar: An Overview of the Military Family Experience and Culture
Provides information on the US military structure and culture, to increase understanding of the ways a community-based provider can begin to work with veterans and their families. This webinar discusses the typical stressors that a military service member experiences throughout cycles of deployment, in combat, and the potential risk factors for physical or psychological injuries that potentially can impact family functioning. It also describes best practice interventions that support psychological health with military and veteran families.
Program Spotlight Children's Hospital of the King's Daughters | The National Child Traumatic Stress Network (nctsn.org)
Provides a focus on Children's Hospital of the King's Daughters Advocacy Center. This program spotlight offers an overview of CHKD's work with military families, The NCTSN and Military and Veteran Families Program, The NCTSN/ DoD Academy on Child Trauma, The Children’s Advocacy Center Model and National Children’s Alliance, NCA’s CAC-Military Partnership Project, as well as recommended resources from the NCTSN and NCA.
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