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Deployment Guide For Families of Deploying Soldiers. Separation and Reunion

This site provides multiple resources for Marines and their families to deal with deployment-related stress.

Courage to Care is an electronic health campaign consisting of fact sheets that deal with health topics relevant to military life. Courage to Care content is developed by leading military health experts from the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences.

The Military Family Research Institute is a cross-departmental research program housed at Purdue University and funded by the Department of Defense, Office of Military Community and Family Policy. The mission of MFRI is to conduct interdisciplinary, multilevel research that provides insight into the impact of quality of life factors on military members and their families.

This questionnaire will help you to gauge your own drinking habits and whether or not they are cause for concern. Please read the following statements, recording the indicated numeric score for each true or false response.

This web site is dedicated to the surviving spouses and dependents of military personnel who died while in active military service and to the survivors of veterans who died after active service. We are grateful for the opportunity to provide quality information and assistance to family members suffering the loss of their husbands and wives, sons and daughters, and mothers and fathers.

Based in Washington, DC, the American Psychological Association (APA) is a scientific and professional organization that represents psychology in the United States. APA is the largest association of psychologists worldwide.

The Department of Defense (DoD) announced the formation of a congressionally directed task force to examine matters relating to mental health and the Armed Forces. "This is an extremely important effort involving a collaboration of DoD, federal and private sector experts in mental health," said Dr. William Winkenwerder, Jr., assistant secretary of Defense for health affairs (ASD-HA). "The assessment and recommendations of this group will help to frame the course of the Department's mental health services well into the future..."

Click on the CYS link to see child and youth information. Site contains practical information about Army Reserve Family Programs.

The Center for the Study of Traumatic Stress conducts research, education, consultation and training on preparing for and responding to the psychological effects and health consequences of traumatic events. These events include natural (hurricanes, floods and tsunami) and human made disasters (motor vehicle and plane crashes, war, terrorism and bioterrorism). The Center’s work spans studies of genetic vulnerability to stress, individual and community responses to terrorism, and policy recommendations to help our nation and its military and civilian populations.