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Military Veteran Trauma Research
From Juanita Street, Alder University, Military Psychology
This research study is being conducted to understand the impact trauma can have on U.S. military veterans' physical health, psychological health, learning and spirituality. If you would like to participate in the study, please note it is only for U.S. military veterans who served in Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF), Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF) and/or Operation New Dawn (OND), AND who experienced combat stress/trauma, or military sexual trauma (MST) or both while serving in the operations. The online survey will take about 5-10 minutes to complete. The consent form will take about 5 minutes to read. My hope is that this study will help to improve treatment programs for military veterans dealing with the aftermath of trauma and all its complexities. Please click on the consent form link below to learn more about this study. The research study (online survey) link can be accessed below and at the bottom of the consent form as well. The survey is anonymous and DOES NOT ask for any personal identifiable information and DOES NOT record respondents' IP addresses, locations or contact info.
This study was approved by Adler University's International Review Board (IRB).
Who we are
Our vision
Ensure that every military woman, past, present, and future finds a welcoming space and supporting services to meet her needs.
Our Mission
Function as a sustained bridge over the military civilian divide.
Connect women- and veteran-serving organizations and women veterans.
Create opportunities for success in transition with emphasis on:
- Employment
- Housing
- Physical & Mental Health
- Education & Training
- Financial Wellness
- Legal assistance
- Benefits access & support
- Community engagement
- Fitness & Nutrition
- Recreation & Volunteering
- Life/Success Coaching
Our Goal
Increase access to and utilization of the supportive services women veterans have earned and deserve -- in an informed and educated manner.
by:
Building the premier integrated & replicable service model for military women.
- Collaborative (partnering) model
- Case managed/peer navigated support
- Culturally sensitive mentors and service providers
- Bridged with academia and research
- Learning and service community
Our Core
Welcoming spaces
Case Management & Peer Navigator Support
Case Management & Peer Navigator Support
Serving women three ways:
- A virtually and technologically connected network of women veteran-serving organizations - a one-stop shop where organizations can integrate and collaborate available to all nonprofits and women veterans at no cost.
- A "virtual coffee house" providing a dedicated buddy, a peer-mentor who will navigate her mentees to partner-provided support, join her in virtual events, and keep her connected.
- A "coffee house" environment operating expanded hours affording a community of like women, partner-provided support services, with childcare onsite. Spaces for mingling, talking, studying, learning, and relaxing, all in the company of supportive peers.
Case Management & Peer Navigator Support
Case Management & Peer Navigator Support
Case Management & Peer Navigator Support
Women veterans and those they love will be served by dedicated buddies, peer navigators and case managers to facilitate their step-by-step, stage-by-stage transition into and through civilian life --when they need it, both virtually and on-site. We believe in a gentle touch; not command or control.
Partner providers
Community Programming & Events
Community Programming & Events
We are seeking partners in the veteran and woman-serving space that can help fill our pillars of support. Are you a veteran or woman-serving organization? We would love to hear from you about how you can be a part of this mission! We don't exclude; we include.
Community Programming & Events
Community Programming & Events
Community Programming & Events
Evenings with ASAP, career and personal growth workshops, seminars, and community-building events, our "coffee houses" will be a positive, enriching community space programmed with our partners to inform, commune, laugh, and lift. We don't do it all. We rely upon our partners who do the best of what they do.
our integrated partner-provided pillars of support
Coaching
Behavioral Health
Behavioral Health
Our one-on-one and small group coaching will be about active listening, empowering, and focused on psychological safety so women warriors can discover their next personal choices in civilian life.
Behavioral Health
Behavioral Health
Behavioral Health
Individual and group emotional wellness meetings provide women veterans with the mental health care they deserve. Our partners professional mental health services are a core part of our mission.
Employment
Behavioral Health
Women's Health
Career research support, resume development, cover letters, interview skills, and appropriate work attire support. We are here to help women veterans succeed!
Women's Health
Recreation & Purpose
Women's Health
Patient advocates will work with all women veterans to advocate and navigate them into appropriate women veterans' health care partner providers.
Housing Support
Recreation & Purpose
Recreation & Purpose
Resourced by veteran housing experts, obtain VA housing benefits such as rental support VA loans, from temporary to emergency housing.
Recreation & Purpose
Recreation & Purpose
Recreation & Purpose
With the help of veteran-serving organizations engaging veterans with a purpose: Wellness, team building, recreation, and community service.
Legal Assistance
Benefits Navigation & Support
Benefits Navigation & Support
VA Claims, discharge upgrades, family law, consumer law , and real estate law. We want to put you in front of the best legal counsel.
Benefits Navigation & Support
Benefits Navigation & Support
Benefits Navigation & Support
YourNexStage's partners in service will include the best veteran service officers we can collectively source. Let them help you find your way.
Don't do it alone.
Mentoring
Benefits Navigation & Support
Mentoring
YNS will connect women veterans to the "battle buddy mentor" and mentoring organizations most likely to meet her needs whether those are career or just life and transition support.
Education/Training
Fitness & Nutrition
Education/Training
You can find the right training, the right education, and the right providers to make every dollar and every hour invested toward the work you want to do.
Financial Wellness
Fitness & Nutrition
Education/Training
Building a viable household budget, securing insurance and the financial safety and risk management tools that will keep you on even keel.
Fitness & Nutrition
Fitness & Nutrition
Fitness & Nutrition
These support services will help you stay physically fit and understand proper nutrition while feeding your family on a realistic budget.
Long Term Objectives
Measurably ...
- Improve benefits navigation, access, and receipt
- Improve physical and mental health
- Improve sense of community, and
- Increase rates of engagement
- Increase housing stability
- Increase "right" employment and retention levels
- Improve and sustain education placements
- Improve levels of financial wellness
Increase the public perception of the value of women as veterans at the same magnitude as their male peers.
#Not Invisible.
Increase the levels of culturally sensitive support received by women veterans, when and where they seek it.
#Not Ignored.
Facilitate the evolution of a nationwide network of veteran-serving organizations with offerings and environments that more effectively meet the needs of women veterans.
We don't need to own it - just help build it.
#WomenVetsCount
#NotInvisible
#NotIgnored
Thank you
YourNexStage is grateful for the investments of all who give to support our military women and women veterans.
We live our commitment to collaboration, not competition. As our partners share their resources, we share their mission.
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