Resources

Child and Family Program (CFP) develops educational information on military child and family trauma and care for diverse audiences.

CFP hosted a Workgroup on Intervention with Combat Injured Families bringing together national experts in adolescent and child psychiatry, military medicine and trauma to create guidelines on care around the impact of combat injury on military children and families. The Center produced an important educational document; Principles for Caring for Combat Injured Families (link to), a set of ten core principles that are evidence informed and serve to guide the practice of both health care and community providers serving this special population of military families. The principles were developed to encourage scientific study that will further inform, evidence- based approaches to care.

Parent Guidance Assessment-Combat Injured Family (PGA-CI) was developed to assist skilled mental health professionals in the development of family assistance strategies and plans. While not specifically intended for other populations, the PGA-CI has applicability for use by skilled mental health professionals who work with  parents who e.g. were injured in motor vehicle accidents.

Resources for Recovery is an electronic health communication campaign to further disseminate knowledge around the impact of combat injury on our nation’s military children and family. Each installment will provide a fact sheet for health and family service professionals, civilian and military, and the military family, to educate them about the trajectory of care from recovery to return home and community.

Courage to Care is an electronic, health communication campaign which provides our nation's physicians and medical leadership with information on timely topics related to military unique healthcare issues, as well as issues pertaining to homeland security and the nation's health. Each installment includes a fact sheet for healthcare professionals and a fact sheet for families and patients.

Joining Forces Joining Families, a quarterly newsletter that brings important research to the field. FVTP continues to add to its scientific literature database of family violence articles. This database is used for scientific reference to improve the development of family violence research protocols and to further the research education of military and civilian social workers.