Mitchell School Counseling: For Military Families

A Special Welcome to Our Military Families!

Our goal is to help make the transition and the school experience as smooth as possible. Please contact me so that we can discuss the various ways we can support your child.

Resources:

Military Child Education Coalition - Ensuring quality educational opportunities for all military children affected by mobility, family separation, and transition - http://www.militarychild.org/

Military OneSource - Private help 24/7 Military OneSource offers three kinds of free short-term, non-medical counseling options to active-duty, Guard, and Reserve members and their families. Military OneSource counseling services are designed to provide service help with short-term issues such as adjustment to situational stressors, stress management, decision making, communication, grief, blended-family issues, and parenting-skills issues. http://www.militaryonesource.com

Talk Listen Connect by Sesame Workshop (The organization behind Sesame Street). Deployments, Homecomings, Changes, Grief. http://www.sesameworkshop.org/what-we-do/our-initiatives/military-families/

Local information at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard: Morale, Welfare, and Recreation (MWR)

Yellow Ribbon Events for Guard and Reserve families Call 207-430-5772

Student 2 Student - All three Kittery schools have Student 2 Student (S2S) programs in place.

United Through Reading Deployed parents read children’s books aloud via DVD for their children to watch at home. Contact me for more information.

People to contact:

Navy: School Liaison Officer Kristen Ferullo 207-438-2466 kristen.ferullo@navy.mil

New Hampshire Air National Guard: Airman and Family Readiness Program Manager 603-430-3545

Fleet and Family Support Center Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, Building 241, Kittery, ME 03904 - For information and referral call 438-1835. For Director and Counselor call 438-1363.

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