Speak Out for Military Kids

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Speak Out for Military Kids!!!

• District III

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Deployment

• There are 5 steps to deployment
• 1. Pre-Deployment
• Find out they are leaving
• 2. Deployment
• Leaving home
• 3. Sustainment
• Time when families are emotionally stable
• 4. Redeployment
• When they are coming home
• 5. Reunion
• Return home

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Things to do during Deployment

• KEEP IN TOUCH!!!
• Letters with pictures
• Phone Calls
• Tape recordings Video Cassettes
• Share the workload
• Make the work even within the house (so no one
  feels over worked)

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Speak Out for Military Kids Retreat

• This is an educational program that was and is
  designed to raise the awareness of issues facing
  military families. This week, the 4-Hers have
  began to understand what the military kids are
  going through. The youth become members of
  speaking bureaus and develop lectures, public
  service announcements, videos, and other material
  to help share what they know to their community.
  Through this training, the youth have had the
  opportunity to gain valuable leadership,
  research, organization, technology, and public
  speaking skills.

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Goals

• There are two main goals for Speak Out for
  Military Kids.
• We want to increase the awareness of issues
  facing Army National Guard and Army Reserve
  families during times of mobilization and
  deployment.
• The other is to increase awareness of stressors
  faced by suddenly military youth.

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Puzzle

• A true Military Kid
• When we were in a district meeting there was a
  request that we wrote on a piece of paper
  something that we felt was important to be
  incorporated and this is just one of many!!!
• Drew wrote that when you have someone from your
  family or a close friend leave, it is like a
  piece of your heart and soul is missing.

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Speak Out

• This past week all of us teens have had the
  chance to learn new skills that many of us never
  knew before.
• We were also able to experience making new
  friends!!!!

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Leadership

• Along with everything that we have learned so far
  about eachother, we have also learned great
  leadership skills.
• When it is appropriate to take charge
• What qualities a person should have in order to
  take charge.

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Fun Games

• Besides learning all of the qualities that we
  needed to develop we were also able to have a
  little fun getting together as a whole.

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The Plan

• Spreading the word back at home.
• How?
• Getting out in the community and giving
  presentations that will promote everything that
  we have learned here at this training.

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Plan in action

• Articles in the local papers
• Presentations at schools and throughout the
  valley
• KMVT Community Talk
• 4-H Groups (Set up displays at a fair)
• Lunch Buddy with Military Kids
• Boys and Girls Club
• YMCA
• Dare to Care Program!!!

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Working hard at the retreat
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Presentations in the Schools

• We are planning on going around to the local
  schools and get the word out about the support
  that is available.
• Another action is getting it into the news papers
  and other local programs.

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New Friends!!!!!
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Deployment
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Caleb with Wife and Daughter during Deployment