Program areas at Blue Star Families
Communities - Blue Star Families, Inc. Designs and delivers innovative programs that are geared for the military community. Spouse employment and the bsf careers program supports spouses through their career journey and provides opportunity for military spouses to develop networks and access employment and training resources. Blue Star museums offers free admission to more than 2,000 museums across the country from memorial day through labor day each summer. Blue Star books on bases donates books to military children, base libraries,department of defense schools, and military-impacted public schools and libraries around the world. Caregivers programming provides ongoing resources to build resiliency and the coping skills necessary to address the rigors of the caregivers' day-to-day lifestyle. Blue Star Families launched several physical chapters in locations around the country to provide support and resources directly to military Families.
Technology engagement - Blue Star Families, Inc. leverages state of the art outreach and information channels to connect with military Families around the world. Military Families are engaged through our online resources, online webinars, online mentoring, virtual hang-outs,facebook live and streaming events, and, a variety of other technology points. This allows military Families to access Blue Star Families and its resources anywhere in the world.
Research and policy - Blue Star Families, Inc., as part of its central mission to connect, engage, and empower military Families, conducts in-depth research on the issue that affect the military family community. Annual military lifestyle survey: the Blue Star Families annual military family lifestyle survey (amfls) provides deep and valuable insight into the true costs of sustaining our nation's all-volunteer force and provides the vehicle for military Families' voices to be heard by key decision-makers. White oak: the purpose of the white oak retreats is to encourage creative thinking and facilitate solutions that require collaboration both within and between the government, non-profit, and independent sectors in the military family space.
Campaign for inclusion (cfi) - led by Blue Star Families, rei is a multidimensional, cross-sector, collective-action effort to improve the service experiences of military Families of color. This is accomplished through five impact areas - research & advocacy, training, leadership, collaboration, and community impact. The rei committee directs this effort to ensure that our country meets its obligation to deliver positive, fulfilling experiences to all Families who serve.implementation of this program began in 2021. As an initial step in combating these inequities, Blue Star Families has launched the deploy fellowship program (diversify and expand the pipeline of leaders for your military community). This program seeks to train a new cohort of racially diverse leaders for military service organizations and veteran service organizations through a one-year fellowship.