Employees in Chart Industries’ corporate office in Garfield Heights, Ohio participated in a service project to assemble 200 With You All the Way! Dealing With Deployment Kits. They took some extra time to write personal notes of encouragement addressed to the military kids and families receiving the Comfort Kits. Many of those Comfort Kits were distributed to military kids in Ohio, immediately following the project. In addition to thanking Chart Industries for sponsoring and assembling the kits, we would also like to thank Sgt. Nathan Wagner from the US Army 12th Engineer Battalion for volunteering to help with the project and sharing his personal family experiences of deployment with the group.

The Comfort Crew had the opportunity to work with some amazing military families last week at the Texas Courageous Family Camp in Brownwood. The camp is a place where military families can enjoy camp activities apart from the day-to-day challenges of military life. Families enjoyed activities like swimming, hiking, archery, ropes course, dancing, crafts, service projects, kayaking, water sports, a color run, and so much more. We were able to visit with all the families, share our brand new reintegration DVD, and make sure every camper left with Comfort Crew resources . . and a Cuzzie. It was icing on the cake to run into one of our Camp Hero campers, Nathan (pictured right). Thanks to Texas 4-H and OMK for inviting us to speak and to Camp Director Mark Carroll for always being such a good host. We hope the families had a great time!

Our Bringing Families Back Together program is designed to work on both the deployment and reintegration experience by giving children and families the tools to deal with this challenging situation. The Bringing Families Back Together (BFBT) Program utilizes the With You All The Way! Dealing with Deployment Kit, along with its follow-up resource, the Together Again! Helping Military Families Reconnect Kit, to address the common issues children ages 6 to 12 experience when a family member deploys and then returns home. Military families can now visit the Military Family Webportal to request these resources for their kids at no cost to them.                                                                                                       […]