Achieving Balance
This CD offers practical tips from clinical psychologist and speaker Dr. Bob Brooks about balancing the demands of work and the requirements of family and personal life.
Becoming a Mom
On this recording, ten women from around the world share their questions and answers, struggles and joys when it comes to becoming a mom. They talk about pregnancy and work, career choices, child care challenges, mentors, and the balancing act.
Double Duty: Staying Connected With Your Kids When You're a Deployed Dad
On this CD, former Marine and fatherhood expert, Armin Brott, talks to dads about ways to stay connected with your child or baby-to-be before you leave home until after you return. Plus, service members from all branches share their experiences as deployed fathers and offer advice for maintaining and strengthening the daddy-bond, no matter the age or stage of your child.
Military OneSource DVD
This DVD shares the stories of three military members whose lives benefited from the resources of Military OneSource.
Military Youth Coping With Separation: When Family Members Deploy
This video program is designed specifically for older children and adolescents as they face military deployment in their family. This product was developed by military pediatricians and adolescent medicine specialists to help military youth understand that they are not alone as they experience family separation. It also provides tools for young people to use to begin to understand and cope in healthy ways with their feelings and emotions related to a military deployment.
Mr. Poe and Friends Discuss Family Reunion After Deployment
This video helps families deal with deployment separation stress in healthy, positive ways. This kit covers all phases of deployment, especially family integration. Written and performed by children and their parents who have experienced deployment, it presents common scenarios that most families face.
Over There
On this recording, former Navy psychologist Dr. Heidi Squier Kraft and women across the Service branches discuss their challenges and successes as mothers who deployed.
Parenting in the 21st Century
On this recording, Dr. Edward Hallowell talks about the challenges facing parents and children today and offers parents a five-step plan for raising resilient, successful, and happy children.
Personal Finance for Everyone
In this recording, David Chilton offers a simple approach to financial planning for any age or income level. Topics include saving money, 401(K) accounts, credit cards, home ownership, life insurance, and much more.
Raising Adopted Children
On this recording, parents and young adults share moving stories and words of wisdom about adoptive family life, including topics such as early childhood, school, fitting in, grief and loss, and big and small ways parents can help their children feel loved and strong. The CD is narrated by Susan Caughman, an adoptive parent and the editor of Adoptive Families magazine.
Sesame Street’s Talk, Listen, and Connect: Deployments, Homecomings, Changes
This bilingual multimedia outreach program is designed to support military families with children between the ages of two and five as they cope with the feelings and concerns experienced during different phases of deployment. The kit comes with the DVD and additional parent/caregiver materials.
Sesame Street’s When Families Grieve
This bilingual DVD resource kit includes a DVD, children’s storybook, and a guide for parents and caregivers to help support children coping with the death of a parent, while also providing reassurance that they can learn ways of being there for each other and move forward.
Students at the Center (CD & DVD)
The DVD provides a look into the strategic partnerships, policies, programs, and services that have been instituted to support academic, social, and emotional needs of families and children of service members and officers.
Taking Charge of Your Money
On this recording, financial expert Amelia Tyagi explains how you can take charge of your money, offering practical tips for everyone. Get advice on saving money, paying off debt, coping financially during major changes, balancing your budget, and more.
These Boots: A Spouse’s Guide to Stepping Up and Standing Tall during Deployment
On this recording, Jacey Eckhart, a military wife and columnist, offers suggestions and strategies to helping you prepare for deployment, thrive during deployment, and prepare for homecoming. The CD also covers how to communicate, help children cope, use resources, and build a support network.
When Someone You Love Has a Drinking Problem
On this recording, addiction and recovery expert Robert Ackerman, offers valuable information and reassuring advice about alcoholism and the road to recovery. Ackerman deals with how to deal with denial, find help, break unhealthy patterns, and find support.