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Families

Support to Parents of CAF Members

We recognize that parents feel a great loss when their children leave home for the first or even second time. They may be going off to join the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF), one of the most amazing militaries in the world, but still many parents can’t help but feel a great loss.

Military Family Services (MFS) and Military Family Resource Centres (MFRC) have broadened their support services to the extended military family. The modern military family, after all, includes not just spouses and children, but their parents and other relatives of significance.

We strongly encourage parents of single CAF members to self-identify themselves to local MFRCs in their catchment area. CAF is not allowed to share information collected on the Personal Emergency Notification form (next of kin form – which is often the parents) so there is no way for MFRCs to know who actually makes up this new population. The number of CAF Recruits continually grows by about 5000 people every year.

It is important for parents, grandparents, and extended family of military members to support one another. It doesn’t matter whether a member is deployed, posted out of province, out of the country, or around the corner, every circumstance is different and requires this special population to band together.

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''I'm SO incredibly happy to have found a group like this. My son starts Basic in two weeks then off to RMC. To say we are nervous and very emotional is an understatement. ''

- Parent of Military Member who joined MFS Support to Parents Facebook Group, June 2023

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