Causes: Military & Veterans Organizations, Veterans

Mission: OUR MISSION: To create stronger military families through education, empowerment, and support. OUR VISION STATEMENT: The Military Spouse Advocacy Network is a robust network of advocates, mentors, and volunteers serving our military families and improving the morale and welfare of our communities through education empowerment, support, community and collaboration. OUR VALUES:Education: Linking military spouses with useful resources while facilitating the creation and continuous improvement of reference materials. Empowerment: Promoting strong and confident military spouses. Support: Facilitating mentorship and training to ensure no spouse is left behind. Community: Building fellowship for military spouses in local and global communities. Collaboration: Connecting military spouses with resources to educate and empower their communities.

Results: The creation of a program that provides peer-to-peer support and mentorship to all new military spouses. The challenges rooted in developing strong military spouses lies largely in the ability to link them to the information and support they need as new spouses to a military lifestyle. Even as benefits and resources exist to accomplish spouse support, an apparent and realistic lack of experience sometimes stifles spouses trying to learn and begs the need for a system of mentors to be the bridge between the person and the information. The New Military Spouse Support Program serves as a supplementary function to mentor spouses as they embark on their new experience in the military.

Target demographics: Mentor, support and educate military spouses

Direct beneficiaries per year: Have provided peer-to-peer mentorship to over 1000 military spouses

Geographic areas served: Provide peer-to-peer support and mentorship to all military spouses from day one of their journey.

Programs: peer-to-peer support, leadership development program, trainings/webinars, events, conferences, classes and more.