Growing Strong, Branching Out
ITA’s mission in serving families coping with a service member’s current deployment is to engage and enact strategies generated during Pre-Mobilization services, to reassess the needs of the individual and the family as they adjust to the absence, and to help the family remain connected and communicative throughout the experience. Creative arts therapists will facilitate self-expression and insight to promote awareness of feelings and behaviors associated with the mobilization of a loved-one.
Therapists will help families explore ways in which they can assure the proper place in their home will be held for the service member while determining how to adjust and adapt to their new roles and responsibilities in their loved one’s absence. Families will be offered opportunities to interconnect, building a community of families moving through similar adjustments and managing similar circumstances.