Military Kids Website Also Helps Parents, Educators
Technology has come a long ways since I was a military-brat PCSing around the world in the 80s and 90s. I didn’t have to deal with year long deployments but I remember Dad being gone for six months at a time for training and schooling.
Fast forward a ‘few years’ and I watched my husband head off to Iraq with the Ohio Army National Guard. I had a few print pamphlets and a couple of Internet articles I could share with teachers that weren’t accustomed to having military-children in their classroom but there wasn’t much more support then that.
I am so glad to see our military families getting the support they need!
The Defense Department website for military children has added new features to help parents and educators explain difficult topics of the military lifestyle to children.
Since its launch in January 2012, MilitaryKidsConnect.org has served more than 125,000 visitors and won five industry excellence awards. To mark the one-year anniversary, the website added new content designed for children, parents and educators, officials said.
The new features include:
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Military Community and Family Policy added this interesting tidbit: The website, created by the Defense Department’s National Center for Telehealth and Technology (T2), uses innovative ways to help military youth cope with the unique strains of military life. In addition to disruptions from parents deploying to assignments away from home, military children are affected by moving frequently, changing schools and making new friends. They also have to live with readjustment issues when a parent returns from deployments. These issues may include post-traumatic stress and physical disabilities.
Head over to these websites to learn more:
MilitaryKidsConnect
National Center for Telehealth and Technology
– Leanne from MilitaryAvenue.com
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byUnknownonWednesday, January 23, 2013
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