Background: Little is known about military families who have a dependent with special health care and/or educational needs. The Exceptional Family Member Program (EFMP) is designed to link these families to military/community support services through family support provider (FS providers).
Families with a dependent who has special health care or educational needs can experience stressful challenges. The Exceptional Family Member Program (EFMP) assists military families with identifying military and community support services through a family support provider.
Since September 11, 2001, over 2 million U.S. service members have been deployed to Iraq or Afghanistan, resulting in hundreds of thousands of military-connected children (MCC) having experienced a parental deployment.
Schools can be an effective setting to deliver interventions to promote well-being among children. One such intervention for military-connected children, Staying Strong with Schools, was tested for its effectiveness in a civilian school.
This study uses a positive youth development (PYD) approach to explore whether differences in youths' conceptions of spirituality were linked to patterns of difference regarding 6 domains of PYD.
Spirituality among youth has repeatedly been shown to be associated with positive youth development, conceptualized as including components of competence, confidence, character, connection, caring, and contribution.
Military dependent children remain a largely unexplored subject, particularly in early childhood education. In an effort to fill the gap in the current literature, this research study focuses on how early childhood teachers perceive the educational needs of military dependent children.
Military dependent children have unique experiences and educational needs versus non-military dependent children.
Military children encounter unique stressors that can affect their social and emotional well-being. These challenges can serve as a risk to the military child’s successful academic performance.
Military children encounter unique deployment-related stressors. The study examined the training and implementation of a school-based intervention, Families OverComing Under Stress (FOCUS) School-Based Skill-Building Groups (SBG).