'Ask Us Anything: Military Teen Edition,' Cohen Veterans Network Partners with National Military Family Association's Youth Program, Bloom: Empowering the Military Teen, for Month of the Military Child Campaign
STAMFORD, Conn., April 15, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- As April marks Month of the Military Child, Cohen Veterans Network (CVN), a national not-for-profit philanthropic organization that serves post-9/11 veterans, active duty service members and their families through a nationwide system of mental health clinics, announced today its collaboration with the National Military Family Association (NMFA), a nonprofit that works to strengthen military families, and Bloom, NMFA's youth program by and for military teens, for an initiative aimed at supporting military teens and their parents. The organizations are joining forces for an online campaign titled, Ask Us Anything: Military Teen Edition, in which military teens will share insights about their experiences and licensed clinicians will provide strategies to help teens and parents manage the mental health impacts of military life.
- Military families relocate three times as often as civilian families.
- During their school career, military children move and change schools an average of six to nine times.
- "Military teens have stories to tell, and we need to listen," says NMFA's Director of Military Family Programs Becca Garrison.
- Care is available to military families through CVN's national network of 24 Steven A. Cohen Military Family Clinics .