Addressing the Mental Health Needs of Military Families

Family Service of RI and Butler Hospital are sponsoring a presentation entitled "Addressing the Mental Health Needs of Military Families," on Friday, March 1, 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at Butler's Ray Conference Center.

This presentation by Ellen DeVoe, PhD, LICSW and Ruth Paris, PhD, LICSW, will focus on Strong Families Strong Forces, a short-term home-based reintegration program aimed at reducing the impact of deployment separation and war-zone related trauma on military families.

Education credits are available.

For more information, please click here.

Family Service of RI recently received a federal grant to reduce child trauma in Rhode Island, with a focus on military families.  For more information on that project, please click here.

Traumatized Children the Topic This Weekend

Family Service of RI's Susan Erstling, Ph.D. was interviewed for the radio program "In the Community" airing on a number of radio stations this weekend.  Dr. Erstling is pictured above with WPRO news director Bill Haberman shortly after recording the interview earlier this week.

Dr. Erstling heads the agency's trauma & loss center, which specializes in helping children traumatized by crime and violence. 

Topics include speaking with children in the wake of community tragedies, such as the Newtown, Connecticut shootings, and the agency's recent federal grant to reduce the impact of trauma on Rhode Island's children, with a special emphasis on military families.

The program airs at various times and stations on Sunday:

6:00 a.m. on  92 PRO-FM

6:30 a.m. on Lite Rock 105 FM

7:00 a.m. on Hot 106

7:30 a.m. on AM 790

8:00 a.m. on 630 WPRO/99.7 FM