TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2016//
TI  - Staying Strong With Schools: a civilian school-based intervention to promote resilience for military-connected children
JO  - Military medicine
A1  - Ohye, Bonnie
A1  - Kelly, Hope
A1  - Chen, Yang
A1  - Zakarian, Rebecca J.
A1  - Simon, Naomi Michele
A1  - Bui, Eric
SP  - 872
EP  - 877
VL  - 181
IS  - 8
N2  - Since September 11, 2001, over 2 million U.S. service members have been deployed to Iraq or Afghanistan, resulting in hundreds of thousands of military-connected children (MCC) having experienced a parental deployment. Although parental deployments have significantly burdened these children, few evidence-based interventions designed to support their resilience to these stressors are available. To address this gap, we developed a civilian school-based intervention to promote resilience in MCC living in the community. Our intervention, Staying Strong With Schools (SSWS), aims to deliver: a training to all school professionals early in the school year to educate them about challenges for children and families experiencing parental deployment and signs of deployment-related distress; and a year-long training for the school guidance counselor who coordinates communication and provides psychosocial support to MCC within the school community. We piloted SSWS in two civilian elementary schools and found promising feasibility and acceptability.<br><br>Reprint & Copyright © 2016 Association of Military Surgeons of the U.S.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0026-4075
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.7205/MILMED-D-15-00234
ID  - ref1
ER  -