FOCUS Resources
FOCUS is available to families where and when they need it – we know it’s not always possible to meet with a FOCUS provider so we are happy to provide the following resources that are ready when you are!
Click through the pages below to explore tips and strategies for incorporating the FOCUS Skills into your routine. We also have online games and a mobile app for skill-building on the go. Let us help make your family a stronger family.
Family Skills
Explore FOCUS handouts and articles about key family resilience skills and healthy family habits.
FOCUS World
Explore FOCUS World and practice key skills to help keep your family strong.
FOCUS on the Go
Download our FREE mobile app to play games, explore videos, and take a strengths survey to understand how your family is doing.
FOCUS Videos
Watch webinars, tutorials and activities from our FOCUS teams.
Additional Resources
Military OneSource provides 24/7 support for military families
www.dstressline.com: DSTRESS line 1-877-476-7734
General Family and Child Resources
Military Child Education Coalition: The Military Child Education Coalition provides military families and professionals with programs, resources and guidance to help children stay on course academically, socially and emotionally.
Sesame Street for Military Families: Provides videos for military families with young children to help manage transitions and military experiences.
Sesame Workshop: provides resources for parents to help address children’s developmental needs. Workshops for families dealing with the challenges of deployments, homecomings, changes and grief.
Kids in the House: Provides short videos as a resource to parents of children of all ages.
Zero to Three: Provides information for parents on how to support babies and toddlers.
National Military Family Association: The National Military Family Association is dedicated to serving all military families to identify and solve the unique challenges of military life.
Blue Star Families: provides resources for frequent moves, deployments, and transitions can make it hard for military families to establish strong, trusted networks.
Our Military Kids: Created to provide support and recognition to military children.
Operation Purple Camp: Provides information about military family camps.
USO: Programs for service members and their families.
Operation Home Front: Serves America’s military families.
Home Base Veteran and Family Care: Serves Veterans of all eras, Service Members, Military Families and Families.
Project Sanctuary: Work with veterans and active-duty service members and their families.
Wounded Warrior Resources
Operation We Are Here: Provides resources for adults, children, and teens, including information about physical and invisible injuries, recovery, rehabilitation, and family life.
Give an Hour: Provides no-cost, confidential mental health care services to active duty military, reservists, guard, veterans, and in certain cases, spouses and caregivers.
Semper Fi and America’s Fund: Combat Casualty Nurses, provide camps for children of wounded, ill or injured, and financial assistance programs for those wounded, ill and injured.
VA Caregiver Support Program: National Caregiver Support Line 1-855-260-3274: VA’s National Caregiver Support Line serves as a primary resource/referral center to assist caregivers, Veterans, and others seeking caregiver information.
Yellow Ribbon Fund Keystone Program: Provides caregiver support.
Warrior Care: is designed to help empower military caregivers with information about national-level resources and programs specifically for them.
Operation Mend: Our mission is to partner with the United States Military to jointly heal the wounds of war by delivering leading-edge patient care, research, and education and using the best medicine and technology available.
Wounded Warrior Project: Empowers Veterans Through Programs, Services, and Advocacy.
Brainline: Provides information, resources and individuals, families, and caregivers living with traumatic brain injuries.
Traumatic Brain Injury-The Journey Home: Provides information, support, inspiration and hope for injured service members and their families.
Courage to Care: Courage to Talk About War Injuries provides resources for families and friends including how to talk about war injury with children and healthcare providers.
National Center for PTSD: The world’s leading research and educational center of excellence on PTSD and traumatic stress.
Military Provider Resources
OneOp: is a single point of entry professional development resource for military family service providers.
Military Family Research Institute at Purdue University: Conducts research and outreach for communities and professionals who serve military and veteran families. Civilian behavioral health providers are trained in military-specific issues through the Star Behavioral Health Providers program.
Elizabeth Dole Foundation: Assist the organizations and agencies that serve caregivers — spouses, parents, and others — responsible for an injured military member.
Center for Brain Health, University of Texas at Dallas: The Brain Performance Institute delivers science-based innovations that enhance how you think, work, and live.
PsychArmor Institute: Provides training and effective support to all non- military Americans, arming them with everything they need to work confidently and effectively with military and veteran populations.
Veterans Resources
UCLA/VA Veteran Family Wellbeing Center: Provides individual, couple and family resilience programs, events and workshops in person and virtually for Veterans, Guard and Reserve families in California.
Make the Connection: is an online a collection of videos of Veterans and their family members sharing real stories of strength and recovery. The website also contains useful information and local mental health resources.
Military and Veteran Caregiver Network (MVCN): Offers peer-based support and services to connect caregivers with others who are giving care to members of the military or veterans who are living with wounds, illness or injury.
National Veterans Foundation: Provides crisis management, information and referral needs to all U.S. Veterans and their families through a toll-free helpline (888- 777-4443). Available outreach services provide veterans and families in need with food, clothing, transportation, employment, and other essential resources.
The Soldiers Project: The Soldiers Project has been providing psychotherapy for post 9/11 Veterans and their loved ones for more than ten years.
VeteranCaregiver.com: Provides peer-to-peer support and special assistance for Caregivers of Veterans, as well as for “singleton” Veterans.