Mandy's Early Childhood Education Blog: Military Families

Saturday, October 13, 2012

Military Families

Zero to Three newsletter described a project that was launched by Zero to Three in combination with other organizations such as The Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles in order to find grant funds to help military families with special needs children. Research discovered there was a lack of available services to military families that have children requiring special needs, therefore the funds were raised and secured in order to assist families. The program is called Coming Together Around Veteran Families. Below is a link to the information. In addition a google search of Coming Together Around Veteran Families returns a PDF of a training hosted in April and topics that were discussed. Children of Veterans and military families have unique experiences and it is wonderful that an organization is recognizing this, in addition to taking steps to provide awareness and accessibility to these families.

http://www.zerotothree.org/about-us/funded-projects/military-families/expandingouroutreach.html

4 comments:

Wendy NewbyOctober 13, 2012 at 6:30 PM
Mandy,
In a time in our country when resources seem so strained it is refreshing to hear that a new funding stream has been created to help the military families with children that have special needs. Thanks for sharing the good news.
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Jackie RodriguezOctober 13, 2012 at 6:50 PM
Mandy,

I agree with Wendy it is wonderful to see a national agencies take an interest in the well being of military families. So often adults feel that children are too young to be impacted by deployment, reunification, frequent moves and know that nothing could be further from the truth. This is indeed a giant step forward for military families.
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AnonymousOctober 14, 2012 at 2:14 AM
Ms. Tate providing services for the military community is very important especially overseas. The link you provided has a ton of information and also several other links that gives a better understanding of services for military families.
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UnknownOctober 14, 2012 at 5:52 AM
Mandy thanks for sharing this link, because we alwalys looking for other avenues to assist our military community. This is the first I have heard of this one, and I will be passing it on.
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