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Fact Sheet ~ Helping Our Children Deal With War
Fact Sheet ~ Coping with War-Related Stress: Information for Military Families and Communities
Deployments are stressful, but are also a time for families to grow closer and stronger. Children are found to be resilient, but there is always concern. In helping children, remember to reassure them that the deployed parent is well trained to do their job, that they too have a job as part of a family who supports our troops, and communicate to children simply, at their age level.
Please find resources and informational fact sheets to help families cope.
Families
- Veteran Caregiver: Join this virtual community
- Support for Spousal Caregivers
- Ways to Prepare When Your Spouse is Deployed
- NH Support Our Troops: collection of links to information resources and services for families and friends of deployed soldiers
- Guard Family ~ Local Community Resource Finder
- National Guard Family Program
- Lifelines: Answers for Sailors, Marines and their families.
- Lifelines: Family Life Section
- Federal Benefits for Veterans and Dependents.From the Department of Veterans Affairs, a guide to the broad array of benefits and services that veterans, dependents, and survivors may be eligible for.
- Centre for Neuro Skills: Veterans and TBI
- Veterans Count, a program of Easter Seals Easter Seals offers case management, family support, rehabilitation, and transportation to veterans. Daisy Wojewoda, Project Director. Dwojeewoda@eastersealsnh.org (603) 621-3579
Children
- Elmo explains deployment to children
- Voices of a Military Child
- National Child Traumatic Stress Network: Military Children and Families
- Military Child Education Coalition
- Helping Children of Military Families
- Military Parent Special Needs Toolkit From the Department of Defense
- Armed Forces Crossroads Scholarships for Military Community
