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Navy Program Puts ‘FOCUS’ on Military Families: (DOD NEWS)
January 05, 2011
WASHINGTON, Jan. 4, 2011 – A Navy program is equipping service members and their families with the skills they need to weather the psychological and physical challenges bred by a decade of war.
Project FOCUS, or Families OverComing Under Stress, bolsters communication and coping skills among families impacted by multiple deployments and the visible and invisible wounds of war.
“Families make such sacrifices to support service members and their country,” said Kirsten Woodward, family programs division director for the Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery. “It’s important for us to support families in the same manner in which they are sacrificing.” Navy officials created the program in March 2008 after observing the growing effects of wartime stress on family members’ psychological health. Little research had been conducted on the impact of war on families up to that point, Woodward noted, but what they could find indicated a growing need click here to view
