Readers of Military Spouse vote on the Military Spouse of the year to be announced prior to Military Spouse Day. The voting is already closed but valuable resources related to deployment, relationships, family, money, career and other topics are available from the magazine and the Military Spouse website.

Non-medical behavioral health counseling sessions offered for Service Members and their Families have recently been increased to 12 sessions per person per issue. The new 12 session limit applies to face-to face counseling through Affiliate Providers, Short-Term Solution-Focused Telephonic Consultations, and Online Consultations.

Need someone to talk to about stress management, relationships, marital issues, grief, blended family issues, parenting or deployment? The counseling is available for the Soldier and/or family members and more information can be obtained by visiting Military One Source.

Maybe you have a question about how the military is supposed to work and don’t know who to call for an answer? Maybe a situation related to your military service is causing a difficulty for you or your family? The Warrior and Family Assistance Center is here to help you. The kinds of issues you can find help with include:

• Medical care
• Military and VA benefits
• Personnel actions
• Financial difficulties
• Individual and Family Counseling

Call Warrior and Family Assistance Center when you have a question about something that is important to you as a member of the Army Reserve Community. Someone is available on the toll-free phone line 1-866-436-6290 24 hours a day. You can find more about the Warrior and Family Assistance Center online or contact them via email at ar-wfac@usar.army.mil.

Sign up to receive Military OneSource newsletters – they cover a variety of the life issues Soldiers and families are facing today. Find information, insights, helpful tips and more. Some of the available newsletters are Spouse Employment & Education, Guard & Reserve, Single Life in the Military, Healthy Living, Everyday Tips, Money Matters, Raising a Toddler or Preschooler, Living with a Teenager, Caring for an Older Relative and other topics of interest. You can review past newsletters and sign up to subscribe to newsletters of interest by visiting Military OneSource.

The primary goal of the Army Reserve Enrichment Camps is to provide a fun and rewarding experience for Army Reserve youth ages 8-15 years. The Army Reserve has partnered with accredited camps and national youth organizations to make this unique opportunity possible.

Army Reserve Enrichment Camps will:

1. Foster relationships between AR-connected youth
2. Create leadership and teambuilding opportunities at a local level
3. Connect Military Families with premiere youth development organizations
4. Equip youth with the skills necessary to effectively cope with deployment of a parent and increase resiliency
5. Afford campers an opportunity to reap the intrinsic rewards of community service
6. Offer a wide range of diverse, interesting, and skill-building activities
7. Create a program that can be self-sustaining and not dependent on parent’s deployments status

This year’s AR CYSS Enrichment Camps will be held for one-week at each of the following locations:

• Tulsa, OK
• Loretto, MN
• Princeton, IN
• Huguenot, NY
• Boulder Creek and Julian, CA
• Sandwich, MA
• Alpine, AL
• King, NC
• Graford and Trinity, TX
• Jamesville, VA
• Danielsville, GA
• Oahu, HI
• Saipan
• Port Murray, NJ
• Centerville, MD

Each site will host 30-100 campers from the surrounding region. Campers will have the opportunity to interact with other Army Reserve connected youth, learn about the unique factors associated with being an Army Reserve dependent, and most of allhave fun! Ages and dates vary by location. Visit www.arfp.org/AREC for all the details and to register. Spaces will fill quickly!

Begin by realizing that the Reunion with your Soldier is more than just coming home. Research shows that Reunions can cause more stress in people’s lives than a Deployment. That’s not to say that returning Soldiers and their Family and friends aren’t happy about the Reunion, they’re usually ecstatic. The stress comes from the changes. Visit the Army Reserve Family Programs web portal to read more about what to expect.

A list of dates and events for the 3rd and 4th Quarter is posted on the Army Reserve Family Programs Web Portal. There are seven different types of events that are for the Soldier, the Family only, and the Soldier and the Family together. These events address everything from the Alert Phase to Pre-Deployment to Family Only programs during Deployment and a number of Post Deployment activities.

Check out the schedule for your region and register online at the Yellow Ribbon section of the web portal.