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Military REACH: A University-wide Collaboration

Authors:
Fatemeh Jamshidi
Abhishek Jariwala
Bibhav Bhattarai
Katherine Abbate
Daniela Marghitu
Mallory Lucier-Greer

Keywords: Military Families; Applications; Resources.

Abstract:
At the federal level, a partnership composed of the Department of Defense (DoD), the Department of Agriculture (USDA), and colleges and universities throughout the United States of America work toward serving military families. Through this partnership, cooperative agreements are executed to support the needs of service members and their families. One such cooperative agreement between DoD, USDA, and Auburn University is Military REACH. This project aims to bridge the gap between military family research and practice by mobilizing peer-reviewed family science research into practical applications for military families and those who work on behalf of military families. At Auburn University, this project is an interdisciplinary collaboration between the Department of Human Development and Family Science, the Department of Computer Science, and the academic libraries. This paper aims to present the Military REACH website, the new searching functionalities added to the project to increase the number of active users, and a newly launched mobile application that is positioned to promote access to resources and assess the usefulness of the project’s research summaries. In this paper, we present the functionality and qualitative data analysis of this additional aspect of the research.

Pages: 14 to 21

Copyright: Copyright (c) to authors, 2021. Used with permission.

Publication date: December 31, 2021

Published in: journal

ISSN: 1942-2652