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• American Council on Exercise® (ACE®) The American Council on Exercise® (ACE®) is honored to support Joining Forces, a national initiative that gives back to our service members and their families. We are committing to provide 1 million fitness services hours to activated reservists and National Guard members and their immediate families. Whether you’re an activated National Guard or Reservist, or an immediate family member of someone who is, we want to show our sincere gratitude by offering fitness training services (such as personal training sessions or fitness classes) at no cost to you and your family.
• Armed Services Blood Program The ASBP plays a key role in providing quality blood products for Service members and their families in both peace and war. As a joint operation among the military services (Army, Navy, Air Force), the ASBP has many components working together to collect, process, store, distribute, and transfuse blood worldwide.
  
• Army One Source The Army OneSource online portal provides easy access to many services for families living far outside garrison borders.  The AOS portal features articles, videos and resources in categories such as:  programs and services, health care, housing, education, careers, and travel. 
• Courage to Care Courage to Care consists of electronic fact sheets on timely health topics relevant to military life that provide actionable information. Courage to Care content is developed by leading military health experts from Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, your nation’s federal medical school.
• Defense and Veterans Brain Injury Center (DVBIC) The mission of the Defense and Veterans Brain Injury Center (DVBIC) is to serve active duty military, their beneficiaries, and veterans with traumatic brain injuries (TBIs) through state-of-the-art clinical care, innovative clinical research initiatives and educational programs.  DVBIC fulfills this mission through ongoing collaboration with military, VA and civilian health partners, local communities, families and individuals with TBI.
• Defense Enrollment Eligibility Reporting System (DEERS) The DEERS database system supports benefit delivery including medical, dental, educational, and life insurance.  DEERS is also responsible for producing DoD ID Cards (RAPIDS and Common Access Cards).  Additionally, an ID card registered with DEERS is required to buy groceries at the commissaries or clothes at the exchange.
• DoD Safe Helpline - Sexual Assault Support Department of Defense (DoD) Safe Helpline is a groundbreaking crisis support service for members of the DoD community affected by sexual assault.  Safe Helpline provides live, one-on-one advice, support, and information to the worldwide DoD community. The service is anonymous, secure, and available 24/7 — providing victims with the help they need, anytime, anywhere.  Specially-trained Safe Helpline staff provide help three ways: Online, Telephone: 877-995-5247, SMS/Text is for users to text their location to 55247 inside the United States or 202-470-5546 outside of  the United States.
  
• Eyeglasses for Retirees All retirees, even TRICARE for Life recipients, may receive one pair of standard issue glasses each year from the Naval Ophthalmic Support and Training Activity.  Visit the NOSTRA website and select the "How to Order:  Retirees" link for more information.  Family members and surviving spouses are not entitled to NOSTRA support.
• Fit Family FitFamily is a family fitness website that provides resources, ideas and goal setting tools to help families be active, make healthy nutrition choices and have fun in an effort to promote overall wellness.  The goal-incentive program is open to all active duty, Reserve and Guard members, Department of Defense and civilian families, retired military members, honorably discharged veterans with 100 percent service-connected disability, and former or surviving military spouses and their family members.
  
• Free Online TRICARE Courses TRICARE University (TRICAREU) offers free online courses 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year at www.tricare.mil/tricareu to learn about benefits or the latest changes.
  
• Healers and Heroes 2H Program (for NJ National Guard) Healers and Heroes (2H) is a program designed to bring awareness, solutions and healthcare linkages for issues affecting our Service members and Veterans during and after their service to our country.  For the first year of implementation, the 2H program will only be available to New Jersey National Guardsmen who have deployed in the last 18-months.
  
• Health Care Overview This guide is designed to provide Veterans and their families with the information they need to understand VA's health care system - eligibility requirements, its enrollment process, and the health benefits and services available to help Veterans.
• HOOAH 4 HEALTH HOOAH 4 HEALTH focuses on the promotion of health in the areas of Body, Mind, Spirit, and Environment. There is also a wealth of information on health during the Deployment Cycle.
  
• Immunization Clinic Finder The MILVAX website offers a new MILVAX Immunization Clinic Finder. Just select your state or type in your zip code on the webpage to find the immunization clinic nearest you.
• Mesothelioma Prognosis Mesothelioma Prognosis is a leading Internet resource for concise and comprehensive information about the dangers of asbestos exposure and coping with mesothelioma diagnosis. Our website has a two-fold mission: educating our readers on the many issues regarding the prognosis for mesothelioma and providing assistance to anyone who has been diagnosed with mesothelioma.
• Mesothelioma Symptoms The web resource MesotheliomaSymptoms.com is sponsored by Seeger Weiss LLP. The site has pulled together as a single resource everything related to asbestos in order to promote education and awareness for victims, their families, and the general public. Our goal is to provide accurate, usual information that can be used for general informational purposes, and to advocate for a greater awareness of the dangers of asbestos and the realities of mesothelioma.
• Mesothelioma.com - The Mesothelioma Cancer Alliance Mesothelioma.com is the web's most trusted information resource for individuals who have been diagnosed with mesothelioma and their families. Our mission, as a leading authority on this topic, is to continually provide relevant, timely, and factual information about asbestos exposure and its causal links to mesothelioma cancer.
• Military Health System (MHS) The Military Health System (MHS) is a global medical network within the Department of Defense that provides cutting-edge health care to all U.S. military personnel worldwide. On and off the battlefield, in times of peace and war, the MHS’s goal is to ensure that the highest standard of care is delivered. Whether this is done by treating the wounded, teaching the world’s future doctors, researching new ways to treat old diseases, or discovering innovative ways to prevent the spread of new ones, the MHS is a prominent institution within the global medical community – and its priority is to provide the best health care possible to every soldier, sailor, airman and Marine.
  
• My HealthVet My HealtheVet is VA’s award–winning e–health website, which offers Veterans, active duty soldiers, their dependents and caregivers anywhere, anytime Internet access to VA health care information and services. Launched nationwide in 2003, My HealtheVet is a free, online Personal Health Record that empowers Veterans to become informed partners in their health care. With My HealtheVet, America’s Veterans can access trusted, secure, and current health and benefits information as well as record and store important health and military history information at their convenience. Registering and using My HealtheVet is easy and it's free!
  
• Navy and Marine Corps Public Health Center Navy and Marine Corps Public Health Center (NMCPHC) is the Navy and Marine Corps center for public health services. We provide leadership and expertise to ensure mission readiness through disease prevention and health promotion in support of the National Military Strategy.
• NINDS Traumatic Brain Injury Information Page Information and resources on Traumatic Brain Injury provided by the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke.
• PleuralMesothelioma.com PleuralMesothelioma.com offers free assistance to veterans filing a VA claim who believe they have developed the disease due to asbestos exposure during their military service.  To speak with someone in our Veterans Assistance Department please call 1-800-615-2270 or visit us online.
• Quit Tobacco - Make Everyone Proud Quit Tobacco—Make Everyone Proud is an educational campaign for the U.S. military, sponsored by the U.S. Department of Defense. Launched in February of 2007, the mission of the campaign Web site is to help U.S. service members quit tobacco—for themselves and for the people they love.
• Soldier On Our work begins with getting homeless veterans off the streets.  Our mission at Solider On is to offer a continuum of care that includes immediate and long-term housing, treatment and recovery for addiction, food, and clothing, as well as medical, counseling and job-related services.
  
• Time to Talk Designed specifically for military parents of tweens and teens, this kit provides ideas on how to start the conversation about drugs and alcohol, scripts to help you find the right words, and tips for answering tough questions and getting support from other adults around you.
• TRICARE Learn about eligibility, plans, plus medical, dental, vision and prescription coverage. (877-TRICARE/877-874-2273)
• TRICARE Dental Program
• TRICARE Formulary Search Tool Check for availability, cost shares/copays, and alternatives.
• TRICARE Smart TRICARE SMART – Standardized Materials and Research Technology – is a one-stop, online information portal full of accurate, up-to-date information about TRICARE benefits that members and their families can easily access in the comfort of their homes.
• TRICARE Standard and Extra Handbook The new TRICARE Standard and Extra handbook is now available to all TRICARE Standard beneficiaries. The 68-page handbook includes information on accessing routine, urgent and emergency care, as well as TRICARE's prior authorization and referral requirements.
• United Way United Way improves lives by mobilizing the caring power of communities around the world to advance the common good by improving education, financial stability and promoting healthy lives.
• VA - Hospital Compare This site is for Veterans, family members and their caregivers to compare the performance of their VA hospitals to other VA hospitals. Using this tool, Veterans, family members, and caregivers can compare the hospital care provided to patients
• VA Mental Health Home Page The Office of Mental Health Services mission is to maintain and improve the health and well-being of veterans through excellence in health care, social services, education, and research.
• War Related Illness and Injury Study Center (WRIISC) The War Related Illness and Injury Study Center (WRIISC) is a National VA Post-Deployment Health Resource.  The WRIISCs focus on the post deployment health concerns of Veterans and their unique health care needs.
  
• WarWithin.org The Citizen Soldier Support Program (CSSP) is working to connect servicemembers and their families to primary health care and behavioral health providers trained to address issues that affect military members and the people who support our Nation's troops before, during, and after deployment.
• We Honor Veterans We Honor Veterans, a program of the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO) in collaboration with the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), invites hospices, state hospice organizations, Hospice-Veteran Partnerships and VA facilities to join a pioneering program focused on respectful inquiry, compassionate listening and grateful acknowledgment. By recognizing the unique needs of America’s veterans and their families, community providers, in partnership with VA staff, will learn how to accompany and guide them through their life stories toward a more peaceful ending.
  
• Women Veterans Health Care The Women Veterans Health (WVH) Strategic Health Care Group addresses the health care needs of women Veterans and works to ensure that timely, equitable, high-quality, comprehensive health care services are provided in a sensitive and safe environment at VA health facilities nationwide. We strive to be a national leader in the provision of health care for women, thereby raising the standard of care for all women.

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