Rachel Brauner
Rachel Brauner is the Program Coordinator for the Military Program at Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service. Her focus is to enhance educational programming for military family caregivers and their wounded service members through the eXtension Military Families Learning Network (MFLN) initiative. Ms. Brauner works closely with military professionals across the nation in assessing caregiver needs and providing the necessary education and resources to alleviate the stress that comes with caring for wounded, ill, or injured service members. In addition to her work on the MFLN caregiving project, Ms. Brauner is also responsible for providing prevention education programs for the Army Substance Abuse Program (ASAP) at Joint Base San Antonio (JBSA), Texas. The objective of the prevention education programs are to provide commanders with tools and programs to identify and reduce risk behaviors for service members, while increasing their awareness of the dynamics of alcohol and drug abuse and its effects on service members and their families.