Programs
The Call for the Arts
StudentsVisual arts & writing allow us a glimpse into the world of military children – as seen through their eyes. The Military Child Education Coalition (MCEC) believes that artistic expression is a pure, sincere and candid method children use to communicate pride in their parents, celebrate their military-connected lives, acknowledge their grief or worry, and so much more.
Since the MCEC began the “Call for the Arts” in 2002, thousands of military children – from all over the world, from every service, of all ages – have mailed us their drawings, their poems, and their interpretations of what it means to be a military child. The MCEC takes advantage of every opportunity to display the artistic skill of these unique, resilient children.
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Tell Me A Story (TMAS)
ParentsThe MCEC Tell Me A Story (TMAS) program empowers military-connected children by using literature and children’s own stories in a way that fosters skills for resilience, strong peer and parent connections, a sense of pride and accomplishment, and a caring community. The MCEC believes that stories have the capacity to open family discussions on potentially difficult topics, such as family separation, deployment, moving, grief, and crisis.
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Bernard Curtis Brown II Memorial Space Camp Scholarship
ParentsThe scholarship provides military-connected children the opportunity to have an extraordinary week-long experience at Space Camp in Huntsville, Alabama, that brings together the worlds of service, science, and learning
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Frances Hesselbein Student Leadership Program
StudentsThe Frances Hesselbein Student Leadership Program was established by the Military Child Education Coalition (MCEC) in 2006 to identify exemplary young people through their participation in the MCEC Student 2 Student (S2S) program.
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Student 2 Student and Junior Student 2 Student
StudentsThe MCEC Student 2 Student (S2S) program trains civilian and military-connected high school students to establish and sustain peer-based programs in their schools to support mobile children as they transition to and from the school.
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Parent to Parent
ParentsThe MCEC Parent to Parent program trains teams of parents to bring the MCEC Parent Workshops to their local communities. These workshops focus on empowering parents to be their child’s strongest advocate on educational and social issues. More than 100,000 family members have been trained since 2006.
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