Parent Acknowledgement form

School Military Family Life Counselors (MFLCs) address challenging behaviors and strengthen the capacity of staff, families, programs and systems to meet the needs of military children and youth by:

• Observing, participating and engaging in classroom activities

• Developing strategies for supporting positive behavior, age-appropriate behavioral interventions to enhance coping and behavioral skills in the classrooms and at home

• Meeting one-on-one or in groups, providing evidence-based prevention and intervention services

• Implementing and modeling strategies for teacher and staff responses to children’s behavior

• Conducting trainings for staff

• Facilitating groups to increase parents’ understanding of social emotional development and positive behavior guidance strategies

• Linking families with community resources or military family programs

• Working with military children in settings such as field trips and other centers, camps or school-sponsored activities.

• Conducting individual sessions to address the unique challenges of school-aged military children and youth