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Serving in the military often requires long bouts of time away for deployments, training missions, and temporary duty assignments. During their military service, service members and their families often endure months without spending a fun evening together doing something as simple as watching a movie. In honor of this sacrifice, Blue Star Families and Movies…
In support of military families around the world, Cohen Veterans Network has launched a new educational course “Tools for Managing Stress and Worry”. The self-paced, free online course was specifically created to help manage stress and worry through a series of brief, easy-to-use tools, strategies, and techniques that participants can access whenever and wherever they…
Movies Anywhere helped military families feel more connected with a series of watch parties where families could have a movie night together, even while being miles apart. The video hub utilized its newest Screen Pass feature to let families share their Movies Anywhere video collection with loved ones, and then shared a movie experience watching…
At the end of each summer, hundreds of thousands of military families begin their journey to new duty stations across the world. In any ordinary year, the typical transition challenges such as adapting to a new home, school, and community can be incredibly burdensome, but in the midst of a global pandemic and the continuing…
Anyone who has served in the military or is a family member of a service member or a veteran is urged to take part in a national survey on the well being and needs of military families. The survey is conducted by BlueStar Families organization – a national nonprofit that works to support the families…
ENCINITAS, CA – Today as part of a historic commitment by USAA’s Military Family Relief Initiative, Blue Star Families will receive $500,000 to assist military and families during these challenging economic times. The donation will allow the organization to conduct outreach to service members, veterans, and their families impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. We are…
Military spouse careers are a unique balancing act. We are always teetering between what is best for ourselves, our military members and our families. The military lifestyle means many things are out of our control. What can spouses control in this uncertain, often stressful, amazing adventure called military life? Control Over Our Careers We do…
If you’re not walking forward into your military marriage with the tactical proficiency of any well-planned operation, it’s time to revisit the field guide. It’s been one helluva make or break year so far with thousands stranded in PCS limbo and plenty of others facing even longer deployments. The recent Blue Star Families survey noted…
Anne, an Army spouse, was looking forward to her family finally being together again this summer after two years of being separated due to her husband’s deployment orders and geo-baching. But COVID-19 has thrown them for a loop, creating sleep challenges for her, behavioral challenges for her children, and leaving her husband missing home. Right…