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AUSA Home » Resources » AUSA Family Programs » Military Family Forum II "America's Families: Our Children" Presentations

Military Family Forum II "America's Families: Our Children" Presentations

Tuesday, 26 Oct., 0830–1100

Speakers:

HON Thomas Lamont, Assistant Secretary of the Army Manpower and Reserve Affairs
Effects of Deployment on Children and Adolescence-Panel
- Understanding the Strengths of and Enhancing Thriving Among America's Military Youth: A Study of Positive Development in the Face of Challenge--Richard Lerner, Ph.D., Director of the Institute for Applied Research in Youth Development Tufts University
- The Impact of Parental Deployment on Child Academic Achievement and Social and Emotional Functioning--Amy Richardson, M.D., Policy Researcher, Rand Corporation
- Parenting in the Context of Military Deployment: Lessons from the Field--Angela J. Huebner, Ph.D. Human Development Marriage and Family Therapy, Virginia Polytechnic University
- Helping Children Face the Challenges of Deployments--Shelley MacDermid Wadsworth, Ph.D., Director, Military Family Research Institute, Purdue University
- Back Pack Journalism Program--Shirley Young, Army Reserve CYSS Program Manager
- Army Efforts to Combat the Ill Effects of Deployment Upon Children--Kathleen Marin, Director Installation Services, Office of Assistant Chief of Staff for Installation Management

Not all presenters included slides in their brief.