Our Mission

The mission of the Virginia National Guard Family and Youth Programs Office is to establish and facilitate ongoing communication, involvement, support, and recognition between National Guard Families and the National Guard in a partnership that promotes the best in both.  We are achieving this task through education, outreach services, and partnerships facilitated by leveraging resources, training, and capitalizing on new capabilities, concepts, and technological advances.

News:

Program helps train educators for meeting needs of military children

With over 31 military installations and 48 National Guard armories, Virginia has one of the largest concentrations of military servicemembers in the United States. Many of these servicemembers have school-aged children who have needs unique to military children. The Virginia National Guard and the Military Child Education Coalition are training educators to meet those needs.

The Virginia National Guard Family Programs Office, in conjunction with MCEC, will be conducting a free professional development conference for educators and school counselors in Charlottesville, Va., on April 15 and 16 and is still accepting applications.

The conference, called Supporting Children of the National Guard and Reserve Institute, is a professional development program for educators and professionals designed to reach out in a support network to the children and families of not only the National Guard and Reserve but to active-component children and their families as well.

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Virginia National Guard to host summer camps for Guard youth

The Virginia National Guard Youth Program Office will host two free summer camps this year. The summer camps are open to dependent children and siblings of Virginia Guardsmen.

A Teen Wilderness Adventure Camp, to be held June 22 through 26 in New Castle, Va., and will be available for teenagers 13 to 17 years old. The third annual Youth Summer Camp will be held from Aug. 3 to 8 at the Camp Pendleton State Military Reservation in Virginia Beach, Va. This camp is open to children 8 to13 years old.

For more information or to register your child for either of these summer camps, contact Dana Ivory at 1-888-483-2682 ext.5330 or look for the registration form in the April Family Programs newsletter.

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"Our Sons, Our Daughters: A National Guard Parent’s Guidebook to Deployment" is now available

ARLINGTON, Va. - Click here to download "Our Sons, Our Daughters: A National Guard Parent’s Guidebook to Deployment" published by the National Guard Bureau Family Program Office.