How do OMK State Teams accomplish the OMK mission?

•  OMK accomplishes its mission by implementing four core program support elements:

1. OMK Ready, Set, Go!

•  RSG! Trainings are designed to offer insight into military culture, the deployment cycle and suggest ways to understand the needs of military kids and their families by bringing local community resources together in order to support them.

2. OMK Hero Packs

•  Hero Packs are backpacks that are filled with mementos and items designed to help connect kids with their deployed parent.

•  Hero Packs serve as a "Thank you" to military youth for their sacrifices and an expression of support from their communities and OMK partners.

3. Speak Out for Military Kids OMK project

•  SOMK is a youth led, adult supported project that generates community awareness of issues faced by youth of military families.

•  Youth form speakers bureaus and develop presentations, public service announcements, videos, and other materials and actively seek opportunities to share their experiences with others in the community (e.g. school assemblies, Service club meetings and events, city council meetings, fairs, community activities, and teacher in-service programs).

•  Through simulations, interviews, and research, citizens begin to understand what military families go through during deployment.

4. OMK Mobile Technology Labs