Supporting Military Transition from a Civilian Perspective

Supporting Military Transition from a Civilian Perspective

Designed for: Community Members, Community Providers

By Minority Veterans of America

Date and time

Thursday, July 24 · 12 - 1:30pm PDT

Location

Online

About this event

  • Event lasts 1 hour 30 minutes

This workshop is geared towards transitioning service members and community providers who would like to learn more about the process of transition from military service to civilian life. Topics include education and training resources, networking, civilian standards, job preparedness basics, and practical tools to assist the service member and community providers.

Participants will:

  • Learn how to support someone in transition from the military - the emotional, mental, and professional considerations.
  • Develop an awareness of available resources, local and national organizations dedicated to assisting service members through the transition process.
  • Sharpen knowledge of tools, tricks, and tips for transitional periods - resumé writing, resilience, self empowerment, and self assessment.

Facilitated by: Kat Felts, MVA Training and Education Program Manager

Designed for: Community Providers, Community Members

This program receives funding from King County VSHSL

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Minority Veterans of America

Founded in November 2017, the Minority Veterans of America (MVA) is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization that was designed to change the narrative of the American military veteran. The team of MVA works to build a community around the unique identities that veterans hold, outside of their identity as a military servicemember.

The primary underrepresented groups that MVA serves are: veterans of color, womxn, LGBTQ, and religious and non-religious minorities. We believe that through bringing these four minority groups together, we can build a veteran community that encompasses veterans from a wide range of diverse backgrounds and experiences.

MVA was founded by two University of Washington Husky veterans, Lindsay Church and Katherine Pratt. Church and Pratt first began their work in 2014 through the Husky United Military Veterans where they built a Diversity Committee that celebrated the underrepresented groups within the student veteran community at the University of Washington.

Since 2014, Church and Pratt have collaborated to lead the student veteran population at the UW, Church through her role in the Student Veteran Life office, and Pratt as the President of the student veteran organization, Husky Veterans. Today, they partner to build and grow MVA in order to celebrate the identities that they both feel that they hold that make them underrepresented in the veteran community.

FreeJul 24 · 12:00 PM PDT