DeploymentKids.com
http://www.deploymentkids.com/
This site is designed to provide information and resources for military children. Each section provides ideas and activities to help children who have a deployed parent. Information includes distance calculators, common deployment locations, thank you cards, bookmarks, journaling ideas, pesky questions, honoring veterans, geography games, and ranks and insignias.


Military Members and Families: Deployment Tips
http://www.redcross.org/services/afes/0,1082,0_482_,00.html
      -Tips for Military Spouses
      -Deployment Checklist
      -Tips for Returning Military Members
      -How to Use the American Red Cross During Family Emergencies When a
        National Guard or Reserve Member is Absent


National Military Family Association
http://www.nmfa.org/
NMFA's Primary Goals: To educate military families concerning their rights, benefits and services available to them and to inform them regarding the issues that affect their lives and... To promote and protect the interests of military families by influencing the development and implementation of legislation and policies affecting them.


Operation Military Kids
http://www.operationmilitarykids.org/public/home.aspx
Operation: Military Kids (OMK) is the U.S. Army's collaborative effort with America 's communities to support the children and youth of National Guard and Army Reserve Soldiers impacted by the Global War on Terrorism. The goal of Operation: Military Kids is to support geographically dispersed children and youth of National Guard and Army Reserve Soldiers. The National Partners of Operation: Military Kids are:

• U.S. Army Child & Youth Services (Active & Reserve Components
• National 4-H Headquarters
• Boys & Girls Clubs of America


The "So Far" Guide for Helping Children and Youth Cope with the Deployment of a Parent in the Military Reserves
http://www.nmfa.org/site/DocServer/SOFAR_Children_Pamphlet.pdf?docID=6661
Children whose parents are in the military reserves face special challenges related to deployment of their parent. While the feelings they experience are in some ways much
like those of other children who become separated from a parent, they also confront obstacles that are unique to their situation. For example, their experience of separation can be felt in relative isolation. Most children they know never have to deal with such a drastic separation, and even children whose parents are in the regular military and who might have similar needs and problems are likely to receive
ongoing support and understanding of a caring community sharing in the separation experience.


Surviving Deployment
http://www.survivingdeployment.com/
This site is dedicated to providing information and resources to military families. Military family articles, books, deployment events, and military links are provided. There is also a link to the children's site www.deploymentkids.com.


Talk, Listen, Connect
http://www.sesameworkshop.org/tlc
Being a part of the military can be a real challenge, particularly for young people. That's why Sesame Workshop and Wal*Mart stores have partnered to create Talk, Listen, Connect: Helping Families During Military Deployment. (from the web site)


Operation Home Front
http://www.operationhomefront.com
Operation Homefront is a community for military wives and women in uniform. It provides emergency assistance and morale to troops, to the families they leave behind, and to wounded warriors when they return home.

  Materials compiled by Mary Schultheis and Judith Myers-Walls.