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.

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

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

I have more links somewhere...lol

The elmo deployment video...http://www.militaryonesource.com/skins/MOS/display.aspx?mode=user&action=material&ModuleID=ae74eaa3-d1b6-4dbd-b23e-354880172094&ObjectID=b4f794c5-2a60-4f81-b69a-20a524720e2b&IssueID=db6ef6d5-e028-4528-803b-6eea34d06880&CatID=fb92f69d-bd32-4e16-a0d7-0f3074a3241c

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.

The elmo deployment video...http://www.militaryonesource.com/skins/MOS/display.aspx?mode=user&action=material&ModuleID=ae74eaa3-d1b6-4dbd-b23e-354880172094&ObjectID=b4f794c5-2a60-4f81-b69a-20a524720e2b&IssueID=db6ef6d5-e028-4528-803b-6eea34d06880&CatID=fb92f69d-bd32-4e16-a0d7-0f3074a3241c

You beat me to it. :giggle

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

http://www.deploymentkids.com/

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.

http://flatdaddies.com/

Military Family Books

http://militaryfamilybooks.com/productcart/pc/viewCategories.asp?idCategory=3

Ive bought my children and myself many of these books and they are wonderful

I loved the elmo DVD.

www.operationstory.org or www.myspace.com/operationstory

They have a new program called "I remember" to create hardbound books containing pictures, letters, or just about anything else of the deployed parent to give to a child. These books are 5x5 in size, so they are perfect for the child to carry around and love.

They also help the families of the deployed create books to be sent so that the service member may carry pictures of his or her family with them.

Operation Story will do one book per family at no charge.

You can contact Operation Story through their websites or at operationstory@yahoo.com

i got a message via myspace and what a great idea with the book. we have made a movie very very similar to it for our kids but what a great idea!!

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.

What is Fleet & Family Service Center?

What is Fleet & Family Service Center?
In the Navy they have an organization call Fleet and Family Service FFS for short. It has a ton of info and classes that they host for all kinds of things. Like how to do a resume ( for example) to New Parent support groups. I am not sure what other services have.

The elmo deployment video...http://www.militaryonesource.com/skins/MOS/display.aspx?mode=user&action=material&ModuleID=ae74eaa3-d1b6-4dbd-b23e-354880172094&ObjectID=b4f794c5-2a60-4f81-b69a-20a524720e2b&IssueID=db6ef6d5-e028-4528-803b-6eea34d06880&CatID=fb92f69d-bd32-4e16-a0d7-0f3074a3241c
You can also get the elmo deployment video free on iTunes for your iPhone or video iPod.

You can also get the elmo deployment video free on iTunes for your iPhone or video iPod.

ohh didn't know that. I know they have free sesame street videos on iTunes for download. gonna have to look into that.

I tried to get a similar thread going a few months ago & posted these links in that thread but it was in a different forum. I'm glad this one is here now! :)

This one is the BEST!! Lots of cool FREE downloadable books, etc! http://www.eustis.army.mil/ACS/military_children_and_deployment.htm

http://www.militarychild.org/

http://www.militarystudent.dod.mil/

http://www.cyfernet.org/hottopic/warres.html

http://www.militarykidz.com/

MILITARYONESOURCE.COM WAS REALLY HELPFUL TO ME.