They serve too.
When a parent deploys, a child's world shifts quietly. Deploy wraps arms around every child left behind — with school supplies, summer camps, and counselors who understand.
Pinned to a bedroom wall.
Each card is a real moment. Each number, a real child. Scroll through the quiet weight they carry every day.
Maya, age 7 — wrote 14 letters to her dad during his 9-month tour.
The third school this year.
When the orders come, everything moves. New zip code. New classroom. New teacher who doesn't know your name yet. Deploy's relocation kits arrive before the boxes do.
Average schools attended
by a military child before high school graduation
Camp Homeward, Virginia — where every kid in the cabin knows what a FaceTime goodbye feels like.
"The counselor was there when I couldn't be."
Sergeant First Class Renée Morales
Mother of two, 3rd deployment
He asked me if Daddy still remembered what he looked like. I didn't know what to say. The Deploy counselor did.
Tamara Osei-Bonsu
Military spouse, Fort Hood
Teenagers carry the weight differently. Our peer support groups meet weekly on 22 bases.
of military children
report feeling isolated from civilian peers during a parent's deployment
Bedtime alone. Again.
A military spouse manages a household, a career, and two children's grief — simultaneously. Our respite care volunteers give them one night to breathe.
When both parents deploy, grandparents step in. We step in with them.
Camp reunion, summer 2025.
Camp Homeward Alumni
140 kids, one summer that changed everything
military children
show signs of clinical anxiety during an active deployment — most go undiagnosed
Every number is a child who didn't have to carry it alone.
We report transparently. 91 cents of every dollar goes directly to program services.
Children supported
across 48 U.S. states and 6 overseas installations
Counselors placed
in homes and schools during the hardest months of deployment
Summer camp sessions
run annually — every child attends at no cost to the family
Of families report
their child felt less isolated after six weeks in our programs
Since 2018
Deploy has operated across every branch of the U.S. military.
91¢
per dollar to programs
The families who let us in.
Priya Nair-Castellano
Military spouse, 2nd deployment
Joint Base Lewis-McChord, WA
My husband deployed when our twins were four. I was drowning in logistics and grief. Deploy's counselor came every Tuesday. She didn't fix anything. She just made sure we weren't invisible.
Marcus Webb
Veteran, father of three
Fort Campbell, KY
The camp was the first place my son stopped pretending to be fine.
Dorothy Szymanski
Grandmother, primary caregiver
Norfolk, VA
When both my daughter and son-in-law were deployed simultaneously, I didn't know what I was doing. Deploy gave me a handbook and a hotline. I wasn't alone in raising my grandchildren.
Jaylen Okafor
Military child, now a counselor volunteer
Camp Pendleton, CA
I was 16 and angry at everything. The Deploy teen group was the only place anyone got it.
Stand Behind
Their Family.
You don't have to wear a uniform to serve. When you stand behind a military family, a child gets a counselor, a camp bunk, or a backpack full of supplies for the fourth new school.
$35 fills a relocation school kit for one child
$120 sends a child to Camp Homeward for a week
$240 funds one month of in-home counseling
Lower-commitment? That's okay.
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