Strong Families Strong Forces: A Program to Support Military Families with Young Children
Faculty will describe the work of Strong Families Strong Forces, a Department of Defense funded project to develop and test a home-based intervention for military families with young children (birth to five). Using a Community Based Participatory Research model, they developed a 3-phase project to (1) explore the needs of military families after an OEF/OIF deployment, (2) pilot an attachment-based intervention in the home, and (3) test the developed model using a randomized clinical trial. They will describe their work with over 100 families, including details of the 8-module intervention, and present case vignettes to illustrate the clinical work and varied needs of families during the reintegration phase of the deployment cycle.