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If you’re a servicemember who has returned to your community after combat duty, what gestures of support were most helpful to you or your family? If you’re a family member, friend, coworker or neighbor, what are your best ideas for helping servicemembers’ re-entry to their home communities be as smooth as possible?
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I have seen many vets come back getting alot of support the first year. After that it seem to completley halt. I suggest having college students in masters program go out in the communties visitng VFW, AMVETS, American Legion. Getting in touch by using the service organzations asssitance. If all the colleges were to help thier would be plenty of help. Having someone to listen to thier problems over a longer time frame. Plus the student could achieve real time counsleing under supervision of the college.

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  1. Will Wilson Says:
    November 3rd, 2008 at 4:15 pm

    I think we are starting to see the generation of m any great ideas. I think people are getting it. There is a lot any one of us could do — the trick is believing that and moving forward.

    I have suggested that Capella could be a great place to centralize information and helping vets and families find places to get help and support. You are seeing some great ideas - in the initial posting here you saw the recommendation as to how mental health students might reach out to the vets. I think that’s a great idea, and I think its important for these students to learn from the vets. What were their experiences; how do they think they were affected; what would be helpful to them; what is not helpful?

    We have some insight into these issues from the surveys, but we need to know more and we need to reach out and learn from them.

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