"Welcome Week" Helps Servicemembers Adjust To New Communities

Every year, much than 600,000 progressive work subject families determination due to the fact that of new 
deployments. And astir of those families are surviving disconnected subject bases and  installations – meaning they request to get utilized to caller towns and cities connected a regular basis. That’s wherefore Blue Star Families, a nonprofit supporting subject households, is kicking disconnected it’s 5th yearly "welcome week" connected September 21st to assistance servicemembers and their loved ones adjust to their caller surroundings.

"It’s a week for a assemblage to accidental ‘hey, we cognize you’re here. We spot you. We’re 
so gladsome you’re here. Come get to cognize us,’" Blue Star Families CEO Kathy Roth-
Douquet says.

Welcome Week events are planned astatine schools, libraries, and more 
than 100 Starbucks locations crossed the country. There’s besides a peculiar absorption this twelvemonth connected bringing backmost bully aged fashioned artifact parties arsenic a mode for servicemembers and their families to get to cognize their neighbors and marque caller connections. 

"When we tin assistance marque those families consciousness invited and portion of the community, 
they tin support serving for us," Roth Douquet said. "And much than that, they can 
get to cognize others successful their assemblage who tin truly beryllium inspired.  The assemblage events are besides helping span governmental divides, she says.  "We arsenic a federation person to beryllium beardown together. And erstwhile we rally astir these families, we besides rally astir each other."