Photo by Sgt. Christopher Gaylord | 5th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment | 08.18.2011
Sandi Doyle (left) talks to military teens at Waller Hall on Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Wash., Aug. 18 about suicide prevention during the Youth Resiliency Academy, an Army Community Service program started in May that addresses common teen struggles in day-long group sessions with new clusters of military adolescents each month....
Photo by Sgt. Christopher Gaylord | 5th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment | 08.18.2011
Fifteen-year-old Amanda Schafers (right) hands out small foam balls to her step sister, Bridgette Francis, 15, that were intended to symbolize the stresses of military teens at Waller Hall on Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Wash., Aug. 18 during the Youth Resiliency Academy, an Army Community Service program started in May that addresses common teen struggles in day-long group sessions with new......
Photo by Sgt. Christopher Gaylord | 5th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment | 08.18.2011
Fifteen-year-old Amanda Schafers hands out small foam balls intended to symbolize the stresses of military teens at Waller Hall on Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Wash., Aug. 18 during the Youth Resiliency Academy, an Army Community Service program started in May that addresses common teen struggles in day-long group sessions with new clusters of military adolescents each month....
Photo by Sgt. Christopher Gaylord | 5th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment | 08.18.2011
Kim Crosby, the site director for Families Overcoming Under Stress, an Army program that provides resiliency training to military families, acts out some common indications of unhealthy communication before military teens at Waller Hall on Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Wash., Aug. 18 during the Youth Resiliency Academy, an Army Community Service program started in May that addresses common teen......
Photo by Sgt. Christopher Gaylord | 5th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment | 08.18.2011
Kim Crosby, the site director for Families Overcoming Under Stress, an Army program that provides resiliency training to military families, writes on a dry-erase board some different characteristics that fall under three separate types of communication as military teens call them out at Waller Hall on Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Wash., Aug. 18 during the Youth Resiliency Academy, an Army......
Photo by Sgt. Christopher Gaylord | 5th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment | 08.18.2011
Kim Crosby (center), the site director for Families Overcoming Under Stress, an Army program that provides resiliency training to military families, explains to military teens the different types of communication at Waller Hall on Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Wash., Aug. 18 during the Youth Resiliency Academy, an Army Community Service program started in May that addresses common teen struggles......
Photo by Sgt. Christopher Gaylord | 5th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment | 08.18.2011
Thirteen-year-old Kadari Johnson (left foreground), draws shapes based off information one of his peers is relaying to him about a picture he can't see at Waller Hall on Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Wash., Aug. 18 during the Youth Resiliency Academy, an Army Community Service program started in May that addresses common teen struggles in day-long group sessions with new clusters of military......
Photo by Sgt. Christopher Gaylord | 5th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment | 08.18.2011
Karen Fox, a program specialist with the Family Advocacy Program on Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Wash., talks to military teens at Waller Hall Aug. 18 about the power of bystanders in situations where their peers are being bullied at school or elsewhere as part of the Youth Resiliency Academy, an Army Community Service program started in May that addresses common teen struggles in day-long group......