For many veterans, making the transition from life in a war zone to life as a college student can be challenging. More than ever before, disability services staff members, with their understanding of the unique challenges veterans are facing, can often become advocates for helping veterans connect to available resources.
Join us online as our experienced instructor details specific accommodations that your disability office might consider for veteran students. This event will emphasize how disability service administrators can train others on campus to better serve veteran students with physical and psychological disabilities and help them succeed academically and socially. Our instructor will also suggest some longer-term projects you can use to more broadly assist veterans through disability services
Who should attend?
Disability services and veterans affairs personnel will learn ways to accommodate student veterans and train other faculty and staff on working with student veterans.
Agenda
Needs of returning veterans
The different types of physical and psychological injuries most common for recent veterans
Common presenting profiles of student veterans
Meeting the needs
Best practices to help students, academically and socially, who have experienced common post-war symptoms
Training and educating faculty and staff
How to train and educate faculty and staff on how to work with veteran students with physical and psychological disabilities
A step-by-step training program you can take back to your campus to use for training faculty and staff
Other suggestions for the future
How to plan for larger trainings, such as faculty sensitivity training, to help you facilitate conversation about differing opinions on war
How to increase the profile of disability services on campus
How to increase the role of disability services in orientation of veteran students
