Military, Family, and Community Networks Helping with Reintegration.

摘要

A community based network to assist with the reintegration of service members and their families was created in the state of Maine; the Maine Military & Community Network. Survey packages were sent to a random sample of community members in Maine prior to the creation of this network and to another follow up random sample one year later to assess community collaboration and support, awareness of the challenges faced by this cohort and if their needs are being met, as well as confidence in knowledge about the resources available to assist them. Over the course of the project, Maine showed statistically significant increases in community coordination and support and overall communication and awareness. Although not statistically significant, Maine showed increases across all variables (with the exception of self knowledge of mental health issues). Further comparisons with a control condition, collected from two random samples in Massachusetts, did not result in any statistically significant interactions of time by state.