The Sesame Workshop and Boys & Girls Clubs — two nonprofit organizations whose work has provided tangible benefits for military children — are expanding their reach.
Sesame Street’s efforts for military families have grown beyond the preschool crowd, through a joint venture with The Electric Company to provide new resources for elementary school-age children and their families.
Boys & Girls Clubs will focus on youths’ mental health issues as their parents return from war. They will help distribute “Military Families Near and Far” materials produced by Sesame Workshop, the nonprofit education organization behind Sesame Street and The Electric Company.
Sesame Workshop’s “Talk, Listen, Connect” series has helped military families with preschool children talk to each other and understand deployments, homecomings and when a parent comes home changed because of injury, as well as coping with the death of a loved one.
By Karen Jowers
Mission: Family: 2 well-known nonprofits expanding aid to military children - Navy Community, Navy Spouse and Family Resources - Navy Times
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