Resources for and about children such as moving tips, deployment information and other items.
Air Force Crossroads - Teens and Youth
Information and entertainment for kids and teens. Come have fun and find out information.
Army - Youth Center
U.S. Army information about moving. Learn how to keep in touch with your old friends and what to look forward on your new location.
Department of Defense Education Activity (DoDEA)
Information for youth about Department of Defense (DoD) schools and other educational information.
Deployment Health and Family Readiness Library
This library provides Service members, families, leaders, Health Care providers, and veterans an easy way to find deployment health and family readiness information. Within this library you'll find access to fact sheets, guides, and other products on a wide variety of topics published by the services and organizations that serve you. You'll also find additional web links to other organizations and resources devoted to the health and well-being of the Service member and their family.
Deployment Tips
Information from the Force Health Protection & Readiness (FHP&R) office. The office is responsible for deployment related health policy, doctrine, theater information systems, system rightsizing, and international agreements.
fhp.osd.mil/preDeployment.jsp - Pre-Deployment Tips
fhp.osd.mil/deploymentTips.jsp - Family Support during Deployment
fhp.osd.mil/postDeployment.jsp - Post Deployment and Reunion Resources
Kids.gov
Links to Federal kids' sites along with some of the best kids' sites from other organizations all grouped by subject. Explore, learn, have fun and don't forget to add us to your favorites!
Military Child Education Coalition
The Military Child Education Coalition is a non-profit, world-wide organization that identifies the challenges that face 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.
Military K-12 Partners
The Department of Defense has developed a comprehensive plan that provides military families with the tools and information needed to make informed choices regarding the appropriate educational setting for each child.
Military Teens on the Move (MTOM) and MTOM for Kids
This site is for Teens and Kids to help them with moving. It has tips about the move and links to learn about your new location.
Returning from the War Zone - A guide for families of Military Members
This PDF from the VA National Center for PTSD has information for families on members returning from deployments.
STOMP (Specialized Training of Military Parents)
STOMP (Specialized Training of Military Parents) is a federally funded Parent Training and Information (PTI) Center established to assist military families who have children with special education or health needs. STOMP began in 1985, it is a project of Washington PAVE, and is funded through a grant from the U.S. Department of Education. The staff of the STOMP Project are parents of children who have disabilities and have experience in raising their children in military communities and traveling with their spouses to different locations.
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