National Leadership Summit on Military Families

Abstract

The objectives of the Summit were to bring together those most knowledgeable about contemporary military family issues and challenges-and the programs/services in place to support service members and their families-to candidly discuss areas of strength, opportunities for improvement, and methods to enhance collaboration within and across the Department of Defense (DoD), the military services, USDA, the land-grant universities, and the Cooperative Extension Service. The Summit also challenged participants to identify barriers to effective support and to create specific action steps based on group consensus. The action steps developed at the Summit, which are described in this document, represent the participants' collective vision about which areas in military family support must be considered top priorities and what specifically needs to be done to ensure (a) military family programs are relevant to the challenges families face today, and (b) programs are appropriately configured and resourced to produce meaningful, measurable outcomes.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 2009
Accession Number
ADA535754

Entities

People

  • Bradford Booth
  • Mady W. Segal
  • Nick Place

Organizations

  • University of Maryland

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Brain Injuries
  • Business Administration
  • Employment
  • Families (Human)
  • Health Services
  • Human Population
  • Management Personnel
  • Medical Personnel
  • Military Families
  • Minority Groups
  • Personnel Management
  • Recreation
  • Social Media
  • Social Networking Services
  • Social Psychology
  • Students
  • Teamwork

Readers

  • Defense Acquisition Program Management
  • International Relations and European Studies
  • Rehabilitation and Prosthetic Care for Military Service Members and Veterans with Limb Loss or Disability.