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YMCA Armed Services San Diego
Since 1921, the non-profit San Diego Armed Services YMCA has assisted San Diego Military with free family bonding, social networking and youth enrichment programs to help them stress less and connect more.
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Network Of Care For Veterans & Service Members
The Network of Care for Veterans & Service Members is part of a growing awareness and effort to take a community approach to the needs of returning veterans, to ensure that they are a valuable part of a healthy community and that the community is a meaningful part of the health of the veteran.
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Above: Seven-year-old Liam McKenna (C) and his mother Janet look for his father Specialist Paul McKenna while David Roberts (R) and his three-year-old son Cayden and seven-year-old daughter Kalenn look for his wife Specialist Kelli Roberts as soldiers of the California National Guard's 1st Battalion, 185th Armored Regiment return from a yearlong combat tour in Iraq at March Air Reserve Base on August 11, 2009 near Moreno Valley, California.
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National Suicide Prevention Lifeline For Veterans
This service is provided specifically for veterans who need someone to talk to or advice of where to go. Veterans can use the site anonymously in one-on-one chats with a trained and caring counselor.
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Above: Marines with the 2nd Marine Expeditionary Brigade, RCT 2nd Battalion 8th Marines Echo Co. move into position while they were under enemy fire in Mian Poshteh, Afghanistan.
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Warrior Foundation
Warrior Foundation's mission is to help wounded and disabled military veterans.
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Military Child Education Coalition
The Military Child Education Coalition shows you how to identify children facing deployment and help them get through it. The Coalition is focused on providing educational resources for the children of service members.
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Military Spouse Career Center
Providing helpful advice and assistance for military spouses seeking careers that provide opportunity and portability.
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U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
The official site for Veterans Affairs. Find information on benefits, assistance, and all services provided by the VA.
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United Through Reading
United Through Reading provides opportunities for emotional bonding that relieve the stress of separation and instill a love of reading by providing the opportunity for family members to read aloud to children on DVD. Their programs help bring far-away family members back home for a little while each day, and help turn what might otherwise be tentative, anxious family re-introductions into joyous reunions.
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Military.com
An organization that connects service members, military families, and veterans to all the benefits of service -- government benefits, scholarships, discounts, lifelong friends, mentors, great stories of military life or missions, and much more. Membership to the site is free.
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Homecoming: Resilience After Wartime
Resources to help returning service members and their families provided by the American Psychological Association.
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DrDianeEngland | January 5, 2010 at 1:15 p.m. ― 3 years, 4 months ago
It's good to see this section called "War Comes Home" because many of us are truly concerned as to what becomes of our military families at this stage. We may harbor some fear because of stories we have heard about violence and suicides amongst those returning from the war zone. Others, like myself, are old enough to have seen some of the tragic circumstances that befell Vietnam War veterans—and regret we as a country did not handle their return differently. That said, since this time we know about Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder or PTSD, and since we have treatments for it, we can expect better results—but only if those impacted by PTSD get the help they need. To ensure this happens, we may need to lend support to these couples. And to be able to do this, we all need to educate ourselves about PTSD. Of course, I hope that my book, while it targets couples impacted by PTSD, might nonetheless prove helpful in educating others as well. I'm grateful that it was recently designated one of the "BEST BOOKS of 2009" by the "Library Journal” because, perhaps this way, more people will discover it as a trustworthy source of such needed and helpful information. Then, working together, we can make a difference for our military members and their families—perhaps causing our communities to become even stronger than they were before the war came home.
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