FOCUS: Resilience Training for Military Families
FOCUS (Families OverComing Under Stress) provides resilience training to military children, families, and couples. It teaches practical skills to help families and couples overcome common challenges related to a military life. It helps build on current strengths and teach new strategies to enhance communication and problem solving, goal setting and creating a shared family story.

FOCUS offers trainings for Early Childhood (FOCUS-EC) as well as School-Based Skill-Building Groups (FOCUS-SBG)

FOCUS helps families learn critical skills such as:
– Emotional Regulation: Family members learn to better understand their emotions and a common emotional language to make it easier to communicate with one another.

– Communication: Family members learn to actively listen and respond to one another’s concerns.

– Problem-Solving: Families learn how to clearly define problems and implement effective solutions, as well as ways to handle day-to-day challenges, while recognizing and building upon their existing strengths.

– Goal-setting: Families learn how to set and take steps towards achievable goals.

– Managing Trauma and Stress Reminders: Family members learn how to develop a plan together to deal effectively with trauma and other stressful experiences.