Minot AFB’s School Liaison Office is hosting a “Mission: Transition – Managing Stress Together” all-day fun, hands-on workshop for military families (including homeschool) at the Jimmy Doolittle Center on Tuesday, February 24th, 2026. This workshop was originally scheduled for November, but unfortunately the government shutdown thwarted efforts for its realization. Back on, five on-base offices serve to provide a one-stop experience for families seeking tips/tools for transitional success! In addition, United Through Reading is donating books for all attendees!
Families can take part in one, two, and/or all sessions in which each presenter – School Liaison Program Manager, Exceptional Family Member Program Coordinator, Military and Family Life Counselor, Minot AFB Librarian, and Family Advocacy Program Support Nurse – will provide support specific to moving, stress, TDYs/deployments, and bullying. Activities can be brought home by parents for their children currently in school to create. Parent attendance is highly encouraged, as the educational wealth gleaned from the workshops will be invaluable!
Here’s what to expect:
9:00am-9:50am, School Liaison Program: Families can create an Education Binder for their student. This binder has ten tabs with hands-on customizable sections (e.g. Unofficial Transcript, Teacher/Guidance Counselor Recommendation, and Military Interstate Compact). Parents will learn about the vital importance of each section, and receive print-outs of the Compact and other resources to be placed directly in their student’s binder. In addition, the School Liaison will emphasize the importance of parents providing their student’s binder to his/her gaining school following a PCS and how parents can utilize this one resource—requiring only minor updates—all throughout their student’s educational career.
10:00am-10:50am, Exceptional Family Member Program: Families can participate in a hands-on Calm and Reset activity. The project provides calm corner cards where the parent will be able to select strategies that best support their child’s needs.
11:00am-11:50am, Military and Family Life Counseling Program: Families will learn how to support children’s emotional well-being during deployment cycles by strengthening connection, communication, and coping skills. Participants will also take part in a Paper Hug activity, creating a simple hands-on tool children can use to feel comfort and closeness when a loved one is away.
12:00pm-12:50pm, Minot Air Force Library’s Transitions and Tea Storytime: Families can have tea and sandwiches/cookies plus engage in listening to stories, singing songs, and completing activities about some of the common transitions children experience as part of military family life, including PCSing and deployments. In addition, How to Handle Bullying activity books and crayons provided by the School Liaison Office will be available.
1:00pm-1:50pm, Family Advocacy Program: Families can take part in a Create a Hand activity, which helps children and families identify the safe people with whom children feel comfortable expressing their thoughts and feelings when they need support. This is very important when children are experiencing transitions and starts the discussion for families about positive relationships and open communication.
Instead of visiting each office in their separate locations, every program is coming to YOU at the Jimmy Doolittle Center on Tuesday, February 24th to engage, teach, and support your military family, so that you remain strong and resilient amid the constant change that is military life, and our forces—in turn—stand strong and ready to provide nuclear deterrence and global strike capabilities anytime, anywhere.
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