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CIR hosts luncheon for CA National Guard unit

Last month the CIR team celebrated the end of the Reintegration Partnership Project with the 1-140th Aviation Battalion of the California National Guard. With the assistance of the LA Jewish Federation, CIR provided lunch to 300 service members that we have been working with since July of 2011. The event was the culmination of the 20-month project consisting of a training and research study designed to support soldiers and their family members after a 1 year deployment to Iraq. The luncheon included a short program featuring Captain Matthew Jackson and Colonel David Hall who shared their appreciation for the services […]

By |March 16th, 2013|News|0 Comments

Family members’ wartime deployments increase teens’ drug and alcohol use

LOS ANGELES—Multiple deployments during the long wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are impacting not only the men and women who have served overseas, but are also causing strain on their adolescent family members at home.

A new study from researchers at the University of Southern California School of Social Work finds a connection between increased drug and alcohol use among middle and high school students and deployments of either a military parent or sibling. The patterns of increased substance use were consistent for lifetime use, as well as in the most recent 30-day period.

“The potential for strain and the trauma associated […]

By |January 18th, 2013|News, Research|0 Comments