CREDO retreats help service members with family issues

The Chaplain’s Religious Enrichment Development Operation (CREDO) has continually provided assistance to service members and their families for more than 20 years.

The program uses retreats and workshops to assist service members with marital, family and deployment issues.

According to the official CREDO website, the concept began in 1971 with the same acronym, but it stood for Chaplains Response to the Emerging Drug Order.

“The program was established by chaplains in the Vietnam era to confront the use of drugs by Marines and sailors,” said Navy Lt. Cmdr. Joseph E. Dufour, chaplain and direct...