LifeArmor

LifeArmor is a comprehensive learning and self-management tool to assist members of the military community with common mental health concerns. LifeArmor is portable and provides information and assistance at the touch of a button. Touch-screen technology allows the user to browse information on 17 topics, including sleep, depression, relationship issues, and post-traumatic stress. Brief self-assessments help the user measure and track their symptoms, and tools are available to assist with managing specific problems. Videos relevant to each topic provide personal stories from other service members, veterans, and military family members.

After selecting a topic area, information is organized into four main menu items:

Learn: Comprehensive information on the causes, characteristics, and potential solutions to emotional, relationship, and other common mental health problems that face the military community.

Assess: Brief self-assessment tools to help the user measure and track symptoms relevant to the topic area.

Tools: Information and guidance on techniques to self-manage problems relevant to the topic area.

Videos: Testimony from members of the military community about their struggle to overcome problems relevant to the topic area.