A Summary of TRICARE Mental Health Benefits
The Department of Defense (DoD) has a wealth of programs aimed at supporting military families facing both ordinary and extraordinary stressors.
After Deployment
A mental wellness and behavioral health website addressing post deployment issues.
American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
This website provides information for military families on adjusting to the return of a deployed service member.
American Psychiatric Association - Healthy Minds, Health Lives
Website offers information on post traumatic stress disorder, helping children deal with deployment and other behavioral health areas.
Bereavement Counseling
Provides information about free bereavement counseling for people who experience emotional and psychological stress after the death of a loved one. Bereavement counseling includes a broad range of transition services, including outreach, counseling, and referral services to family members.
Children's Grief Education Association
This organization is dedicated to serving the needs of grieving children and families and to providing education and support to those who serve them.
Coast Guard Mutual Assistance
The central purpose of Coast Guard Mutual Assistance is to assist their clients during their time of financial need through counseling, short-term interest-free loans, financial grants, referrals, and other related means.
Courage to Care
This website is home to a new electronic health campaign for military and civilians serving the military from military health care experts at the Uniformed Services University.
Defense Center of Excellence for Psychological Health and Traumatic Brain Injury
DCoE assesses, validates, oversees and facilitates prevention, resilience, identification, treatment, outreach, rehabilitation, and reintegration programs for psychological health and traumatic brain injury to ensure the Department of Defense meets the needs of the nation's military communities, warriors and families.
Department of Defense Official Website
The official website of the Department of Defense.
Free Mental Health Assessment During the Holidays
Overwhelmed by the holiday season? Free, anonymous mental health self-assessments available for military service members and their families at www.MilitaryMentalHealth.org and 1-877-877-3647.
Give an Hour
Give an Hour is a national nonprofit organization providing free -- and completely confidential -- counseling and other mental health services to members of the military, veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan, and their loved ones.
Humana Healthcare Services, Inc. Self-assessment Tools - Depression
Click on Beneficiary then Health and Wellness to find information on behavioral health and assessment tools.
Kristen Brooks Help Center
This organization has trained volunteer workers who have taken a 50-hour training program and completed testing for certification in suicide awareness and crisis intervention.
Kristen Brooks Hope Center
This organization has trained volunteer workers who have taken a 50-hour training program and completed testing for certification in suicide awareness and crisis intervention. These personnel handle thousands of calls and help people with suicidal thoughts as well as suicide survivors every day via their website, as well as at 1-800-SUICIDE, 1-800-SUICIDA (Spanish), and 1-866-VET2VET.
