School-Age Services (SAS) deliver before and after-school care during the school year and camps during vacations and school-out days. Provided by Child, Youth and Schools (CYS) Services, an U.S. Army Installation Management Command (IMCOM G-9 Family and MWR) program, care at School-Age Services is delivered during parental duty hours in Army facilities and in partnership with community schools for children K/1st grade through 5th/6th grade.
The return home from combat can often leave servicemembers feeling out of place with the most important people in their lives - their families.
"In deployment, Soldiers grow accustomed to a new lifestyle and a new 'family' - those buddies that bond together to defend each other," said Maj. Ken Williams, 14th Military Police Brigade chaplain. "This lifestyle change is prolonged and becomes familiar, i.e., the new normal."
The families also change while the Soldier is deployed.
"The family is a system," Williams said. "When one family member is absent, the whole system changes. All members of the family adapt to a new 'normal' way of life."
When the servicemember returns, the family may feel uncomfortable with each other, and the servicemember may withdraw from the family.
