Resources for children coping with deployment

[Brandi]

If you know of any resources that would come in handy for a child who is coping with deployment (or for a mother/father of a child who is caring for the child during deployment), please feel free to add them here and I'll make a sticky within this forum.

Books, videos/dvds, sites, articles, or anything else you think would be of help.

[A_BU'swife]

Aww thanks for this Brandi....I know I will be turning to it very soon

[Knyghtsangel]

http://www.k12.wa.us/OperationMilita...Resources.aspx
http://www.booksforbrats.net/

I have more links somewhere...lol

[rosebud*]

The elmo deployment video...http://www.militaryonesource.com/ski...7-0f3074a3241c

[piggypunkinetta]

Free Elmo DVD

Free Deployment Kits for Families with Young Children When: Year Round Where: www.sesameworkshop.org/tlc Who: Active-duty, reserve or National Guard with children 3-5 years old Cost: FREE What: · Sesame Workshop and Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. with additional support from the New York office of Mental Health (NYSOMH) and the Military Child Education Coalition (MCEC), have partnered to produce a new project, "Talk, Listen, Connect: Helping Families During Military Deployment." These bilingual kits will help military families and their young children (3-5 years of age) cope with the feelings, challenges, and concerns experienced during various phases of deployment--pre-deployment, deployment and homecoming. Each kit includes: (1) a Sesame Street DVD, (2) aparent/caregiver magazine, and (3) a children's activity poster. To request your free kit or download all the materials, visit the Talk, Listen Connect Website at www.sesameworkshop.org/tlc.

This is for San Diego

Operation Kid Comfort When: Year Round Where: Armed Services YMCA Who: Children of Deployed Active-duty Military Cost: Free What: · Comforting a sad child who misses a parent is never an easy task, but Operation Kid Comfort is a program designed to help soothe and comfort a child through the difficult timewhen a parent is deployed. Operation Kid Comfort is a program designed to serve children who have an active-duty parent deployed overseas. Photos of the deployed service member, along with the child and family, are photo-transferred onto quilts. The quilt is then used by the child for play, sleep, or just to carry around and hold. For more information: e-mail Becky Kist, Program Director, at bkist@asymcasd.org or call 858-751-5755.

[piggypunkinetta]

Originally Posted by rosebud* The elmo deployment video...http://www.militaryonesource.com/ski...7-0f3074a3241c

You beat me to it.

[rosebud*]

daddy dolls
http://www.daddydolls.com/

[rosebud*]

http://www.deploymentkids.com/

[Amber V]

All Fleet and Family Service Centers have lots of great things just sitting in a store room waiting to be greabbed by us for FREE!!. Just want to throw that out there.

Also Military One Source has excellent things and 6 free counceling sessions per issue.

[Proud_MPWIFE]

http://flatdaddies.com/