Now we want to hear from you!
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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Resources
Resources for mental health professionals
Resources for servicemembers and their families
- A Survivor’s Guide to Benefits: Taking Care of Our Own
- Anticipatory Grief
- Bereavement Counseling
- Deployment Health and Family Readiness Library
- Listen to a discussion of the mental health needs of returning servicemembers
- Military and Veterans: Substance Use and Co-occuring Disorders Among Military and Veterans
- Military One Source
- National Military Family Association
- National Veterans Foundation
- Recovery and the Military: Treating Veterans and Their Families
- Returning from the War Zone: a Guide for Families of Military Members
- Returning from the War Zone: A Guide for Military Personnel
- Seamless Transition
- What Military Families Should Know About Depression
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About Capella University
Founded in 1993, Capella University is an accredited*, fully online university that offers graduate degree programs in business, information technology, education, human services, psychology, public health, and public safety, and bachelor’s degree programs in business, information technology, and public safety. Within those areas, Capella currently offers 104 graduate and undergraduate specializations and 15 certificate programs. The online university currently serves more than 23,400 students from all 50 states and 45 other countries. For more information, please visit http://www.capella.edu or call 1-888-CAPELLA (227-3552).
Capella University’s support for the armed forces
Capella University has been named one of the top military-friendly universities by Military Advanced Education magazine. Capella extends a military discount to active duty personnel, their immediate family members, and veterans, and has a dedicated armed forces and veterans support team. The university provides five $10,000 Spirit of Capella Scholarships to students who have been injured in Operation Enduring Freedom or Operation Iraqi Freedom, as well as 20 $5,000 Veterans Scholarships available to veterans, servicemembers of any branch of the U.S. military, and their immediate family members. Approximately 3,800 of Capella’s students are military personnel, their family members, or veterans – about 17 percent of Capella’s student body. For more information, visit Capella Armed Forces programs or call 1-888-315-8001 to learn more.