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They answer questions and provide resources and referrals on everyday issues such as finding child care, dealing with stress, helping children deal with a parent's deployment, reunion and reintegration after combat duty, making a PCS move, creating a budget, caring for older relatives, making large-scale consumer purchases, and finding services ...
At Operation Purple Camp, over 1,600 military kids per year will connect with peers who have dealt with many of the same things, like frequent moves, a deployed parent, and sometimes a parent's injury. At camp, kids enjoy kayaking, zip lining, horseback riding, and service activities where they give back to the community.
Child care was among the top quality-of-life concerns listed by active-duty service members in a survey last year by Blue Star Families, a nonprofit that advocates for military families. The ...
The Office of Child Care (OCC) is a division of the US Executive Branch under the Administration for Children and Families and the Department of Health and Human Services. [1]: 597 It was officially formed in 2010 and replaced the former Child Care Bureau, which was itself established under the Administration on Children, Youth and Families in ...
Month of the Military Child was established in 1986 to help raise the nation’s awareness of the unique challenges faced by military kids and families.
In 2021, the American Rescue Plan Act (ARP) expanded the Child Tax Credit (CTC) significantly for one year, making it the largest U.S. child tax credit ever and providing most working families with...
Operation Military Kids, through a cooperation with 4-H, the United States National Guard and the U.S. Army Reserve, was a program created a community support network for military youth "in our own backyard" when soldier parents are deployed. It delivered recreation, social, and educational programs for military youth living in civilian ...
A coupon was included in the article and for each one returned, the mother received a blue star, one for each child overseas. More than 1,000 mothers responded. On February 1, 1942 their first meeting was held and 358 mothers attended. They showed their support of Captain Maines and the Blue Star Mothers of America was formed.