The Yellow Ribbon Reintegration Program is a Department of Defense-wide assistance for National Guard and Reserve members, their families, and communities following, before, and after deployment. It addresses the unique challenges facing the Guard and Reserve community, including living away from military support networks and fewer deployment resources than the Active Component.
These events support military members and families with local resources on health care, education/training opportunities, and financial and legal benefits. Community partners provide resources to help prepare and guide attendees through the hardships of deployment, then enable service members to successfully reintegrate back into their families, communities and careers. Each Reserve Component implements the Yellow Ribbon Program to meet the unique needs of their service culture and in accordance with the DoD Instruction 1342.28.
ROA Members have a table as a community partner/vendor to provide information on the ROA STARs school kits that allows family members to easily inform the school of a deployed member and requests the school contact the family if they see behavior changes in the student. We also provide information on the ROA Law Library which can answer questions on re-employment issues. ROA is the only organization that has a Law Library.
The next scheduled Yellow Ribbon events are listed on our calendar below.