Family Resources
Pre-deployment and Deployment
Deployment Cycle Materials
Pre-Deployment Checklists
Money
Pay and Benefits
General Information
TriCare
Financial Information
Assistance for Military Families
Special Offers
Relationships
Military Families
Helping Children Adjust
Domestic Abuse
Emotional Concerns
Post-traumatic Stress Disorder
Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)
Depression and Suicide
Coping with Stress
Substance Use and Abuse
Deployment Cycle Materials
The Emotional Cycle of Deployment: A Military Family Perspective
New Emotional Cycles of Deployment: For Service members and their Families
Army Hooah 4 Health Deployment Information and Resources
Battlemind Training for Spouses and Related Materials
Pre-Deployment Tips and Checklists
Family Member Pre-deployment Checklist (general)
Pre-deployment Checklists (Air Force)
Pay and Benefits
National Veteran’s Foundation - Resource Center Overview
Defense Finance and Accounting System "My Pay" (for managing pay and benefits information)
National Military Family Association: Military Pay 101: How much do you earn?
Defense Finance and Accounting System: How to Read Your Leave and Earning Statement
VA Compensation and Pension Payment Rates
General Information
Real Warriors Campaign Partners
Army Reserve Warrior and Family Assistance Center
Financial Information
Financial Information for Military Families (Air Force Crossroads website)
Assistance for Military Families
Military HomeFront Casualty Assistance Program
Navy and Marine Relief Society
Emergency Financial Relief (Army)
Special Offers
List of vendors who provide discounts for military families
Special Offers Available to Military Families
Army and Air Force Exchange (tax free, online shopping through exchange stores, catalogs, and BX/PX)
TriCare
Frequently Asked Questions and Glossary of Terms:
www.tricare.mil/faqs/glossary.aspx
www.pmel.org/Tricare-Glossary.htm
National Guard and Reserve Video on TriCare Benefits
Military Families
Courage to Care: Becoming a Couple Again – How to Create a Shared Sense of Purpose after Deployment
National Center for PTSD: Returning from the War Zone – A Guide for Families of Military Members
Courage to Care for Me: Tips for Caring for Your Newborn and Yourself
Sittercity Childcare: Find local childcare providers (subsidized by the Department of Defense)
Courage to Care: How Can I Get Him to Seek Help?
Give an Hour (provides free mental health services to military personnel and their families)
Helping Children Adjust to Deployment
10 Tips for Parents Supporting the Child Whose Military Parent is Deploying (Dept. of Behavioral Medicine, Brook Army Center)
Courage to Care: Helping Children cope during a parent's deployment PDF(Uniformed Service University of Health Science)
SOFAR (Strategic Outreach of Families of All Reservists)
Domestic Abuse
National Domestic Violence Hotline
1-800-SAFE (7233) or TTY 1-800-787-3224
National Center for PTSD – Intimate Partner Violence Fact Sheet
National Resource Directory Sites:
Military Homefront
www.defense.gov/specials/domesticviolence/2abusesigns.html
Medline Plus—domestic violence
One page article on domestic violence from the Journal of the American Medical Association
Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
National Center for PTSD: For Veterans and the General Public
PTSD Overview – List of Fact Sheets
National Center for PTSD: Family and Friends – List of Fact Sheets
Department of Veterans Affairs - Support and Family Education: PTSD and its Impact on the Family PDF
Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)
Defense and Veterans Brain Injury Center: TBI Fact Sheet
Defense and Veterans Brain Injury Center: Family and Friends
Courage to Care: Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI): What Military Families Need to Know
Courage to Care: Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI): Helping Service Members and Families in Need
Defense and Veterans Brain Injury Center: Becoming a Family Caregiver
National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke Traumatic Brain Injury Information Page (National Institutes of Health)
The MayoClinic.com: Traumatic Brain Injury
Depression and Suicide
Courage to Care: What Military Families Should Know About Depression
General Information About Depression:
health.google.com/health/ref/Major+depression
www.webmd.com/depression/default.htm
US Department of Health and Human Services: Suicide Warning Signs
National Suicide Prevention Lifeline
1-800-273-TALK (8255)
National Suicide Prevention Lifeline for Veterans
1-800-273-TALK (8255), press 1
Coping with Stress
Benson-Henry Institute for Mind Body Medicine: Massachusetts General Hospital
Substance Use and Abuse
The MayoClinic.com – Alcoholism
