Family & Relationships
Family relationships and one’s larger social environment are crucial to Warfighter health and performance. If you can't find the answer to your Family & Relationships question in our resources, click the button below.
Family & Relationships Resources
Relationship Skills
Skills for keeping your relationships strong. This section describes the latest research and information on evidence based strategies for relationship enhancement/optimization.
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Military Family Skills/Resources
The military family deals with unique challenges requiring special skills that contribute to Warfighter resilience.
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Interactive Tools: Assessments & Online Workshops
Family relationships can contribute to an individual’s ability to rebound quickly from stress. Online assessments and workshops can help identify factors that can either diminish or build resilience.
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Family Physical Fitness
The spouses, children, parents, and other loved ones of Warfighters have physical fitness requirements for their own individual and/or family missions.
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Family Support Organizations
Military Family organizations and resources that serve Warfighters and their families.
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Tips for couples during deployment
Two studies provide tips for surviving separation by communicating with your loved one during deployment.
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Family & Relationships News
Tips for couples during deployment
Two studies provide tips for surviving separation by communicating with your loved one during deployment.
Assess your relationship
Self-assessment questions can help you keep your relationship on the right track.
5-2-1-0—Healthy behaviors for children and families
Let’s Go! has 5-2-1-0 recommendations to help optimize your child’s health.
HPRC at the 2012 Warrior Resilience Conference
This year’s Warrior Resilience Conference focused on the family and social aspects of Total Force Fitness.
Tips for parents to help children and teens with deployment: Week 5
Look at deployment and reintegration as times of family strength and growth to help you and your children weather the changes gracefully.
The latest development in the Total Force Fitness Movement: the Chairman's CJCSI
Next step in the development of the Total Force Fitness movement recently was issued in the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Instruction on the Chairman’s Total Force Fitness Framework.
Challenges facing service members caring for their aging parents
Military service members with aging parents are often concerned due to geographic separation and an already heavy load of other demanding responsibilities. However, through various forms of communication, family involvement, and a parent-care plan, worry can be reduced and emotional bonds can be strengthened.
Deployments, reunions, and family roles
Deployments and reunions can cause military families to experience stress and uncertainty about family roles. Confusion can occur when family members have to take on their service member’s pre-deployment roles and responsibilities in addition to their own. Once reunited, both the service member and his or her family members should communicate openly when re-establishing previous tasks or assigning new ones.
How families can benefit from the USDA’s switch to MyPlate
The USDA’s new MyPlate program is designed to make learning about and practicing healthy eating habits more appealing and more fun for all members of the family.
The Military Family Fitness Model
The Warfighter’s greatest support usually comes from his or her family, yet families also have to deal with the stress of military life. The Joint Services and the DoD have teamed up to develop a framework for additional support and resources to help families cope with the increased pace of deployment.
Tips for couples during deployment
Two studies provide tips for surviving separation by communicating with your loved one during deployment.
Assess your relationship
Self-assessment questions can help you keep your relationship on the right track.
5-2-1-0—Healthy behaviors for children and families
Let’s Go! has 5-2-1-0 recommendations to help optimize your child’s health.
Tips for parents to help children and teens with deployment: Week 5
Look at deployment and reintegration as times of family strength and growth to help you and your children weather the changes gracefully.
Tips for parents to help children and teens with deployment: Week 4
Tips for parents to use during reintegration to help children and teenagers
HPRC at the 2012 Warrior Resilience Conference
This year’s Warrior Resilience Conference focused on the family and social aspects of Total Force Fitness.
HPRC at the DoD/USDA Family Resilience Conference
Representatives of the HPRC, DCoE, and USUHS presented a workshop on a new model for military family fitness at a conference in April.
Military Spouse Appreciation Day
Military spouses are adaptable, committed, courageous, the backbone of the military family and the key to the success of the Warfighter's military performance.
White House initiatives to support military families
The White House has announced new initiatives to support military families in four key areas: overall well-being, education and development of military children, career advancement opportunities for military spouses, and improved childcare.
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