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Living with a family member who has PTSD can be stressful. PTSD Family Coach is an app similar to PTSD Coach. PTSD Family Coach provides support for concerned family members of those with PTSD.

The app can help you learn about PTSD, how to take care of yourself, and how to manage your relationship with your loved one or children. PTSD Family Coach also has information on how to help your loved one get the treatment they deserve.

Features include:

Information about PTSD and how it affects those who care about someone with PTSD.
Tips to help families better support a loved one with PTSD, and themselves. The app includes information on how to find counseling.
Facts about counseling for individuals or couples managing PTSD in a relationship.
Tools to help family members manage stress.
Self-created support network of people to connect with when in need

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You want to help someone you care about if they have posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). But PTSD symptoms can make people less happy or "on edge." They may have a hard time at work or at school. And they may pull away from you, even if you are family or a close friend. This site includes information to help you support a family member or friend with PTSD. There is also information about how you can help someone during specific PTSD treatments.

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Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms may affect relationships. Partners and children may feel more stress and talking to one another may be hard. This site includes information about the effects of PTSD on families, including children. There are also tips to help cope with challenges.

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📘 BOOK GIVEAWAY! 📘We are so excited to get an incredible resource directly into the hands of our military teens and families, completely free, shipped right to your front door!

📦✨We are giving away copies of the interactive book: "Finding My Way: A Teen’s Guide to Living with a Parent Who Has Experienced Trauma" by Dr. Michelle Sherman and DeAnne Sherman. What is the book about? Living in a household where a parent is dealing with the aftermath of trauma can sometimes feel confusing, overwhelming, or lonely for a teenager. This book is a gentle, honest, and practical guide written specifically for youth.
Using clear language, interactive activities, and spaces for self-expression, it helps teens:
✅ Understand what trauma symptoms look like (and realize it's not their fault).
✅ Learn healthy coping strategies to manage stress, anxiety, and big emotions.
✅ Discover how to balance supporting their family while fiercely protecting their own mental health and well-being.
It’s an incredible tool for building resilience, opening up family conversations, and reminding our teens that they are never alone on this journey.
💛How to claim your free copy: It’s simple! Just click the link below, fill out the quick sign-up form with your mailing details, and we will ship a copy straight to you.👇 Sign up for your free book here: 👇
https://forms.osi.apps.mil/r/viRvvpScxu

Military OneSource: A Department of Defense-funded program providing 24/7 support. Beyond administrative help, they offer free, confidential non-medical counseling for pairs, families, and youth. They also provide age-appropriate materials to help explain complex military life changes to children.

Military Mental Health Support | Military OneSource Military service members and families can access mental health and well-being resources, confidential counseling, stress management and more.

Want a fun craft for Father's Day? Print and color their dad doing their favorite activities! Thank you, www.ahundredaffections.com, for the printables!

When a child or family goes through a traumatic event, finding the right support can feel overwhelming. The National Child Traumatic Stress Network (NCTSN) hosts an incredible, evidence-based repository of Trauma Intervention Fact Sheets designed to help families, educators, and clinicians find the exact right care.

These aren't one-size-fits-all solutions. The NCTSN details proven frameworks tailored to different ages and settings, including:

Family-Centered Care: Programs like Child-Parent Psychotherapy (CPP) and AF-CBT that focus on rebuilding the relationship and attachment between kids and caregivers.

School-Based Support: Interventions like Bounce Back (for elementary) and CBITS (for middle/high schoolers) that bring mental health resilience tools directly into the classroom.

Early Intervention: Brief, acute protocols like CFTSI to help families immediately following a traumatic event to reduce long-term symptoms.

Trauma changes a child's world, but the right intervention can help them author a story of resilience.

👉 Explore the full list of evidence-based interventions and find fact sheets on how they work:

Interventions The Intervention Fact Sheets included on this page offer key information related to some of the interventions developed and used by members of the NCTSN. We encourage you to review the Overview page for more context and ideas on how to use these fact sheets.

Summer is busy—but childcare shouldn’t be stressful. Army Fee Assistance (MCCYN) supports families across the U.S., Hawaii, and Alaska with affordable local care options.
Learn more: https://public.militarychildcare.csd.disa.mil/mcccentral/mcchome/mccyn/army

The National Child Traumatic Stress Network (NCTSN): NCTSN offers highly targeted resources specifically for military and veteran families. They provide free toolkits, webinars, and guidebooks on how parental trauma or post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) impacts children at different developmental stages, along with concrete co-regulation strategies. https://www.nctsn.org/resource

Resources The following resources on child trauma were developed by the NCTSN. To find a specific topic or resource, enter keywords in the search box, or filter by resource type, trauma type, language, or audience.