Training Materials, Other, Fact Sheet
Sesame Street for Military Families is a free, bilingual (English and Spanish) website where families can find information and multimedia resources on the topics of military deployments, multiple deployments, homecomings, injuries, grief, and self-expression. (Author abstract)
Training Materials, Other, Fact Sheet
As many as 700,000 children under the age of five have a parent in the military. Recognizing the need for first-rate media-based resources to support military families, in fall 2006, Sesame Workshop launched the bilingual (English/Spanish), multimedia outreach initiative Talk, Listen, Connect: Helping Families During Military Deployment (TLC). This critical outreach tool helped military families and their young children cope with the challenges of deployment and build resilience in times of separation and change. The overwhelming response to this program revealed a need for additional…
Training Materials, Other
This CD-ROM set contains 23 presentations from the Department of Defense New Parent Support Program (NPSP) training conference. The NPSP uses an intensive, voluntary, home visitation model developed specifically for expectant parents and parents of children from birth to 3 years of age, to reduce the risk of child abuse. Presentations address: home visitation strategies to prevent physical child abuse and neglect before abuse occurs; interventions to stop family violence and protect the health and safety of women and children; shaken baby syndrome prevention; child abuse prevention in primary…
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Training Materials Used in 2004 and 2005 for single OEF and OIF troops, Military Life Skills provides important communication tools, and a heavy dose of techniques for managing anger (based on research of most effective, best practices, techniques), for managing difficult conversations with curious civilians, for seizing the opportunity to live life effectively in money matters and in dating wisely. While allowing for decompression from deployment, Military Life Skills gives practical situations for troops to relate to and provides practice in skills, before the troops do something that will not result in their…
