Family Planning & Child Care
Building Military Families Network
Building Military Families Network’s mission is to provide an empowering and supportive network to military and veteran families navigating the challenges in the family building process through support groups, education, and resources. We offer monthly support groups on various topics that provide a safe space to talk about your family building journey with others to gain support, encouragement, and more. Our education center is full of information on all things family building from options, to what TRICARE does and does not cover, and more. We also have a resource library that has all the tools and information our military and veteran families will need to feel empowered on their family building journey from discounts to apps. Building Military Families Network strives to be a beacon of hope for building military families.
Caring.com
Caring.com is an online platform that aims to help improve the lives of senior and veteran communities by providing comprehensive resources to help in making informed decisions.
Access their guide “A Guide to Veterans’ Benefits” below.
Saprea Prevention Resources
As a parent, you want the best for your child. There are many things you can do to create a safe environment for your children. Saprea knows that it can feel overwhelming, especially if you or someone you love was abused as a child. Saprea is here to help parents and caregivers learn and proactively apply researched-based best practices to reduce the risk of sexual abuse happening to the children they love. Learn more about Saprea’s free prevention resources.
Adoption Consultations: Military OneSource
Military life is not a barrier to growing your family through adoption and foster care. There are some aspects of adoption and foster care that are unique to military life. Let a Military OneSource adoption consultant help you navigate the process.
Military OneSource adoption specialty consultants offer information to help families:
Understand the different types of adoptions and the type of adoption the family is seeking
Begin the family’s unique adoption process
Provide basic information on the general process of adoption, including home studies, length of time an adoption takes and costs associated with adoption
Locate military-related financial assistance
Identify agencies that can help you with your specific adoption needs, including information and referral
Begin the foster care or adoption through foster care processes, including information and referral to state or county licensed agencies, the Department of Child and Family Services, and/or the Department of Human Services
Understand state-specific adoption and foster care requirements
Provide information on adoption and foster care agencies and support groups, and general adoption and foster care literature
Child Care Aware of America
Child Care Aware® of America (CCAoA) works with a national network of more than 400 child care resource and referral (CCR&Rs) agencies and other partners to ensure that all families have access to quality, affordable child care. CCAoA leads projects that increase the quality and availability of child care, conducts research, and advocates for child care policies that positively impact the lives of children and families. CCAoA also provides child care assistance for military families through Fee Assistance and Respite Child Care Programs that have served more than 150,000 families and worked with more than 60,000 child care providers over nearly two decades.
Fee Assistance/Respite Child Care Programs
Child Care Aware® of America is proud to partner with the United States Military and Department of Defense to serve and support their families through the Fee Assistance and Respite Child Care Programs. To date we have served more than 10 million families and have created a network of more than 10,000 licensed child care providers.
VIVA Bob Woodruff Foundation
The Bob Woodruff Foundation’s Veterans In Vitro InitiAtive, or “VIVA”, helps wounded veterans struggling with infertility to achieve their dream of growing their families by connecting them with resources and in many cases, providing financial support.
When our service members return home and begin looking to the future, they can be faced with a sensitive and scary reality that the wounds of war can impact intimacy and fertility. In early 2017, the VA began offering services for those veterans struggling to conceive due to service-connected wounds, but not everyone qualifies for VA support. Fertility resources and processes like IUI and IVF can be costly and difficult to navigate. That’s where the Bob Woodruff Foundation’s Veterans In-Vitro InitiAtive (VIVA) comes in, to help veterans with service-connected infertility, but who are ineligible for IVF through the VA
National Military Family Association
Our Mission: We are on a mission to stand up for, support, and enhance the quality of life for every military family through bold advocacy, innovative programming, and dynamic and responsive solutions.
What We Do: NMFA is the voice of military families because, for 50 years, we have proven that we stand with all military families. Our Association is the “go to” source for Administration Officials, Members of Congress, and key decision makers when they want to understand the issues facing our families. They know we have “boots on the ground” with military families and understand better than anyone that “military families serve, too.” Through the support and programs we provide, and our respected voice on Capitol Hill and with the Departments of Defense and Veterans Affairs, our Association always looks out for the families who serve.
Child Care Fee Relief: Access to quality child care is a long-standing issue for military families, now worsened by the pandemic. If your military family depends on child care so you can go to work, work from home, or work on your education, we want to help by providing your family with cost reimbursements.
Operation Purple: At Operation Purple Camp we embrace being “purple” and bring together military kids from all ranks and services, including National Guard and Reserve components, to a unique and memorable summer camp experience.
Military Spouse Scholarship Program: NMFA can help fund education, career, or business goals for military spouses. The mission of this scholarship program is to help prepare military spouses for meaningful employment and to better contribute to their family’s financial security. Our scholarships are awarded to spouses of members of all Uniformed Services.
Military Families Considering Adoption:
Child Welfare Information Getaway
This factsheet provides an overview of adoption processes that are specific to military families, such as receiving permanent change of station orders or being deployed overseas. Although military families who adopt will primarily go through the same process as civilian families, the process may vary depending on whether the military family is stationed in the United States or overseas.
The AVIATRIX Project
The AVIATRIX Project is a pilot program serving all of Naval Aviation, officer and enlisted, that will provide care navigation for individualized family building and fertility guidance on female reproductive health to the service members.
The AVIATRIX Project is a unique collaboration with WINFertility and the Military Family Building Coalition. WINFertility provides free personalized guidance and support to better understand the options available to the military member and to achieve individual objectives for building a family. Participants in the program have access to the WIN network of doctors and pharmacies. The program DOES NOT eliminate all out of pocket costs for care, but does provide the military member with support and coordination in accessing discounted care within the private sector. Patient privacy and security is 100% HIPPA compliant. Discounted care is available within the WINFertility network and ranges from 40%-60% in both treatment and pharmaceuticals.
WINFertility has provided this gift for three years and has the capacity to support 500 Naval Aviation members. Currently, the active duty female service member has priority enrollment. A “space available contingency” is available for dependents/spouses of the active duty male service member.
The Military Family Building Coalition
Military Family Building Coalition is the first military support non-profit organization focused solely on active duty military family building education and programs.
We do this by:
● Educating active duty service members and their families about the current military health care fertility and adoption landscape and help them navigate their path to a family
● Educating the American public about this gap in coverage, care and support for military families and what we can do to fix it
● Sharing resources for current military families who are seeking treatment, fertility preservation before a deployment, or adoption assistance to relieve some of their financial burdens
● Partnering with organizations who are pushing for policy change, so that the American public can fully #SupportOurTroops in this most important mission - building a family
Our vision is for an America that supports all active duty military service members to build the families they want regardless of deployment schedules, gender, fertility challenges, or financial situation.
Foundation for Women Warriors
Our mission is to serve women veterans and their children so that their next mission is clear and continues to impact the world. Our programs address the growing needs of the increasing population of military women transitioning to civilian life. We address the top four needs that women veterans have identified as crucial to the success of their transition: education, employment, housing, and childcare.