Copyright Benita Koeman 2008 - 2012

resources

Military supporters, churches

• Practical insights in caring for the military community. Tools and resources to equip you!
  

Military chaplains

• Organizations and resources to support you in your ministry
  

Organizations that support

• Caregivers
  

• Deployed  military personnel
  

• Home front families
  

• Military children and teens
  

• Parents of military personnel
  

• Aid for Afghanistan & Iraq
  

Resources for

• Counseling, crisis numbers,   suicide prevention
  

• Military life, deployment.. reintegration
  

• Post-traumatic stress
  

• Traumatic brain injury
  

• Wounded warriors
  

• Loved ones of the fallen
  

Encouragement

• Bible studies
  

• Bibles, devotionals
  

• Get connected
  

• Marriage
  

• Prayer
  

• Scripture and hope
  

Military life

• Book lists
  

• Bracelets, handbags,  patriotic signs, etc
  

• Cookbooks
  

• EFMP
  

• Finances
  

• Financial assistance
  

• Homeless (or at risk)
  

• Legal aid or assistance
  

• Magazines
  

• Military discounts
  

• Moving
  

• Poems & essays
  

• Radio
  

• Recreational opportunities, retreats, vacations (free)
  

• Service dogs
  

• Significant days and observances
  

• Space available travel
  

• Teachers, homeschoolers
  

• Veterans Day
  

• Wishes granted
  

Free downloads for kids

Flat Brat TM was developed as a joint effort by Benita Koeman and Beth Allen

to bring another colorable project to military kids to help them through

deployments. Beth is a military supporter and the creator of Troops In Touch

interactive postcards and  Benita is a military wife, founder of Operation

We Are Here, and creator of Brat Town Bugle: A Publication of Non-Recruits in Big Boots.

They developed Flat Brat TM to be gender and race neutral, and specific to

military children (aka military brats), something that would help bridge the

gap between the deployed parent and military child. They thought that the

little military brat Beth had designed for Brat Town Bugle was a perfect

fit. So Flat Brat TM, get ready for an adventure!

How it works:

• Print out Flat Brat (download PDF file) or save and print the image below (right-click on the image).
  

• Have your child(ren) color Flat Brat.
  

• Optional: Print on card stock paper, write on the back, laminate or apply contact paper. Consider adding a popsicle stick on the back for windy day pictures.
  

• Put Flat Brat in an envelope and sent him/her on an adventure. Will Flat Brat visit a deployed parent? Or relatives who live far away? Maybe Flat Brat will visit a lonely Soldier who doesn't receive a lot of mail.
  

• Be sure that Flat Brat's host takes pictures of his/her adventuresome trip! Where does Flat Brat sleep? Where does he/she eat? Did you share your ice cream with Flat Brat? Does Flat Brat travel in your pocket?
  

• Keep a journal of Flat Brat's adventures.
  

• Ask Flat Brat to send a post card or other keepsakes of his/her travels.
  

• Be sure to post photos of Flat Brat's adventure on our Facebook Page!
  

Operation We Are Here lists many more resources for military children and teens. Learn more...