Military families get help from new TriWest initiative

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PHOENIX --  TriWest Healthcare Alliance recently launched Help From Home, a multimedia initiative to help servicemembers and their families in the TRICARE West Region get through deployment-related challenges.

One of the many available resources is an updated and expanded Help From Home video designed and produced by TriWest, which is available to view as streaming video and to order as a two-disc DVD set at http://www.triwest.com. 

From the homepage click on "Behavioral Health" and select the "Help From Home Video" graphic. 

The video features a highly successful program of reintegration designed by Chaplain (Maj.) John Morris, Minnesota Army Reserve and National Guard.

"Reintegration is not a federal program, it's a community process," said Morris.

"Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen and Marines will become constructive citizens if they return to communities that welcome them home. If we have clergy, social service providers and mental health providers who understand the strains that families go through ... then they'll be able to reintegrate."

"Our men and women in uniform and their loved ones undergo an enormous amount of stress and deal with unique challenges, and it is TriWest's mission to do whatever it takes to offer our support," said David McIntyre Jr., president of the TriWest Healthcare Alliance.

"This video resource has been designed to help our military families get through their trying times."

TriWest's post-deployment DVD is available at no charge to beneficiaries, providers, military leaders and family support organizations throughout TRICARE's 21-state West Region.

Viewers may visit TriWest's Web site to order the DVD or watch it in streaming video from a personal computer.

TRICARE beneficiaries also are eligible for behavioral health benefits from TRICARE. For an overview of these benefits, visit the Beneficiary Services section, select "Handbooks, Brochures & Flyers," and then select "TRICARE Behavioral Health Care Services" from the drop-down menu to download a brochure.

These resources have been carefully selected and produced specifically for the military family.

For more information on these resources and TRICARE benefits, please contact TriWest at (888) TRIWEST.

(Article courtesy of TriWest.)