CARING FOR MILITARY CHILDREN AND FAMILIES
The Division of Military Child and Family Research seeks to increase understanding of how military life impacts children and families and to foster innovative approaches to providing system level support to improve healthcare to children and families. We seek to identify child and family risk and protective factors, explore how the military health system can strengthen military family and child well-being, and family and develop support system wide initiatives to support military connected children and families. The goals of the Division of Military Child and Family Research are to:
- explore the impact of military life on children and families,
- identify risk factors and times of higher risk,
- identify factors associated with child and family resilience, and
- develop opportunities to promote resilience in military children and families
- support innovative approaches to strengthen and care for military connected children
- act as a hub for information sharing and provider education to multiply the impact of successful approaches to caring for children and families
