Homefront Resources
Deployment Resources
Websites and Organizations
These are websites that deal with deployment and offer other resources. Getting connected with other military spouses/family members is also key in surviving a deployment. Check out those resources here.
After Deployment
Our mission is to help you and your loved ones manage the challenges that are often faced following a deployment.
Here you will find information and self-guided solutions for dealing with post-traumatic
stress and war memories; conflict at work; depression; anger; sleep problems; alcohol and drug abuse; stress; relationship problems; kids and deployment; spiritual guidance and fitness; living with physical injuries; and health and wellness.
Air Force Crossroads
Welcome to the Air Force Crossroads section on Family Separations! This section is dedicated to those members and their families and friends who are separated due to deployments, remote assignments, extended TDYs, natural disasters, and professional military education requirements. While separation can be a difficult experience for members and their families and friends, the Air Force is dedicated to providing our people quality service to make it as painless as possible. The information and resources provided here can make the experience a positive one for you and your family.
Army One Source - Managing Deployment
Deployment is never easy and it often takes a toll on both the Soldier and the family. There are many resources and tools available to make it easier. We have provided up-to-date articles and tools available for you to get in touch with other family members going through the same challenges.
Christian Military Fellowship - Christian Report, Coast Guard News
We publish two monthly newsletters with articles that are pertinent to living the Christian life in the military society. We endeavor to ask and answer the questions that cross everyone's mind as they face the challenges of military service, family separation, and combat. Our newsletter is available in printed or digital versions and is delivered via the postal service, e-mail or download from the website.
Deployed Soldiers Family Foundation
Deployed Soldiers Family Foundation was founded to help lift the morale of our deployed military men and women. We do this by sending morale-lifting items to the troops and by hosting Wellness Weekends for their spouses and children while they are gone. We also provide gifts at Christmas and help families on a case-by-case basis.
Deployment Lessons
A place to share funny deployment lessons while your military man or woman is deployed.
These lessons are one to two sentences. They are humorous, thought provoking, and
poignant moments.
Do It Yourself - Home repair projects and how to articles
DoItYourself.com is the leading independent home improvement and home repair website. It has been repeatedly honored among the Best on the Web, and was named "One of the Top 50 Sites in the World" by Time Magazine. In addition to its extraordinarily broad list of topics, it operates the most active home improvement forums on the Internet, enabling consumers to get personalized advice from professionals in over 100 subjects
E-Magazine (Military Community and Family Policy)
A quarterly edition eMagazine of the Military Community and Family Policy (MC&FP). Each quarter, we will feature the exciting work being done by the program offices within MC&FP to support our military personnel and their families.
Focus on the Family - Deploying My Faith
As a military spouse, I have a hard time letting my husband go.
Force Health Protection and Readiness - Deployment tips and links for all branches of service
Today's military family faces a lifestyle that is comprised of frequent deployments, which results in increased family separations. This often proves to be a stressful challenge for military families. To assist the military's efforts to keep both troops and their families prepared, there are several programs which support the readiness of families. The information in this section will assist service members and their families in preparing for and coping with deployments. This site contains family support links for each of the services, as well as information for children, locating service members and deployment entitlements.
Hooah 4 Health - The emotional cycle of deployment
To describe the psychological, and event-related aspects of deployments experienced by military families for use as a tool in education, intervention and research.
ICE - Interactive Customer Evaluation (DOD website)
ICE allows DoD customers to rate products and services provided by DoD offices and facilities worldwide. Your comment card ratings are used to improve the products and services available to you. This service applies to all branches of service.
Lifelines Services Network
The Navy and Marine Corps understand the questions and worries that arise as you prepare for a deployment - often to remote parts of the globe. From Pre-Deployment planning and the emotions you might experience through the joyful reunion, the LIFELines Deployment Readiness Section, provides information and resources that can lessen the strain of deployment on you and your family.
Life's Real Scoop - Deployment
Daily tips for navigating life while your Soldier's away.
Military.com - Family Support
Deployment, relocation, employment, healthcare/TriCare, adult education, childcare and youth programs, personal finance, K-12 education, branch support for families.
Military Family Program
Providing Information to Military Families Worldwide. Features over 460 links to information and assistance web sites.
Military Mental Health - Military Pathways
Military life, especially deployments or mobilizations, can present challenges to service members and their families that are both unique and difficult. Some are manageable, some are not. Many times we can successfully deal with them on our own. In some instances matters get worse and one problem can trigger other more serious issues. At such times it is wise to check things out and see what is really happening. That’s the purpose of these totally anonymous and voluntary self-assessments.
These questions are designed so you can review your situation with regard to some of the more common mental health issues. The screening will not provide a diagnosis – for that you need to see a professional. But, it will tell you whether or not you have symptoms that are consistent with a condition or concern that would benefit from further evaluation or treatment. It will also give you guidance as to where you might seek assistance.
Military Ministry - Has deployment checklists
Military Ministry has deployment checklists (pre-deployment, during deployment, post-deployment) and other resources for the military family.
Military One Source - Your ONE STOP Resource - USE IT!!
Military OneSource (MOS) supplements existing family programs by providing a website and a worldwide, 24 hour, seven-day-a-week information and referral telephone service to ALL active, Guard and Reserve Soldiers, deployed civilians and their families. MOS services are provided at no-cost.This site is designed to help military families deal with life's issues. Call 1-800-342-9647 for confidential, compassionate support.
Military OneSource can provide information on topics such as parenting and child care, education, relocation, financial and legal matters, emotional issues, well-being, grief and loss, addiction, and deployment and reunion issues. Need to file a state or federal tax return? You can do both online through Military OneSource. Also, you can ask for free educational materials in many subject areas. Booklets, CDs, or articles will be sent free of charge if you want information on such things as buying your first car, relationship issues, or many other topics.
Not Alone - Find other warriors and families experiencing life after war
Not Alone started in 2008 when a group of warriors and professionals discovered a significant gap in the government's capacity to help warriors and their families come home from war. There needed to be a confidential online community where those warriors could congregate to help each other. Our personal experiences with war trauma led us to reach out to those that need help.
Not Alone has formed partnerships with various organizations to create new ways across the nation to help those returning from war.
Not Alone draws on a unique group of individuals with personal experience in the Iraq and Afghanistan war. We have been in your shoes. We have struggled to regain our lives and to find the new normal at home. Professionals, warriors and experts have been vital in helping to bring the Not Alone vision into reality. We've been through the experience of war and returning home from war and hope that our persistence, experience and passion can help others in their journey as well. We understand. We get it.
OPSEC (Operations Security) - Protect yourself and your Soldier
Married to the Army explains OPSEC and details you can and cannot share with others when when discussing your Soldiers deployment.
Service Separations for the Military Spouse - (Officers' Christian Fellowship)
Advice for the spouse of a deployed Soldier. (Article)
SOFAR - Strategic Outreach to Families of all Reservists
SOFAR is a unique and innovative program to aid the families and loved ones of army Reservists and National Guard deployed in Afghanistan, Iraq and Kuwait.
Family members at home experience severe stress when coping with a loved one's deployment. While the stresses families face during deployment are well-known, the difficulties they encounter when soldiers return are often just as profound. Without treatment and support, this stress can lead to divorce, substance abuse, unemployment, behavior problems in children, and other related issues that can have a lasting impact on family life.
SOFAR:Strategic Outreach to Families of All Reservists is a pro bono, mental health project that provides free psychological support, psychotherapy, psychoeducation and prevention services to extended family of reserve and national guard deployed during the Global War on Terrorism from time of alert through the period of reunion and reintegration.
Surviving Deployment - Resources
Information and resources for military families to include: Articles, Books, Links, Events, Kidzone, Partners.
Talking with Heroes
Help us get the word out to more Americans about the great work our heroes have been and continue doing in Iraq, Afghanistan, in America and around the world. Plus about what many individuals, organizations and companies are doing to help our troops, their families, the wounded and more.
Thank You for Your Service.US
Online news site for current news from Iraq and Afghanistan and from support and veterans groups and issues across America.
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