Dandelion Military Families is the passion project of like minded and similarly experienced military mums who over the years have experienced parental mental health challenges and felt discouraged by the traditional support structures available to new parents, in both healthcare and military environments.

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The dynamic and reactionary nature of military life meant that accessing ‘civvy’ support proved challenging; many providers didn’t have any awareness of the unique stressors of military life, or the flexibility to adapt services accordingly. Equally, traditional military welfare support routes didn’t have the specific training or expertise to support either. This left us feeling frustrated and compounded our existing feelings of isolation.

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Motivated by that, and with the encouragement of one another (and our families), we embarked on a mission to change things for other military families, and create something for the community, by the community. Thus, Dandelion Military Families was born, and like all new babies it’s been a real labour of love since! But at the heart of who we are as an organisation is a small team of military mums who want to improve things for the next generation of military parents.

 

We don’t want them to experience the same loneliness and obstacles we did, because military families deserve to experience the joy of parenting just as much as anyone else.