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Astor, Jill Biden bring attention to military-connected children

by Ross Brenneman

In order to draw attention to the difficulties children in military and veteran families face in schools, Jill Biden, wife of U.S. Vice President Joe Biden, highlighted Operation Educate the Educators, a federal initiative, during a discussion last Monday at the annual conference for the American Educational Research Association. The goal of the session was to raise awareness in university schools of education about military and veteran children in public schools and to recruit more universities to join a national effort.

Biden’s AERA session was orchestrated between AERA and the White House by Ron Avi Astor, the Lenore Stein-Wood […]

By |April 20th, 2016|Faculty, News|0 Comments

Most veterans return to Chicago unprepared for civilian life, study finds

New USC study identifies critical lack of housing and employment planning and opportunities, and heightened suicide risk
Many service members leaving the military and returning to the Chicagoland area are not prepared for the transition home and have a range of needs that cannot be easily addressed by a single organization, according to a new University of Southern California report released Tuesday. Among the research statistics were high rates of unemployment/underemployment, homelessness and suicide risk.

The State of the American Veteran: The Chicagoland Veterans Study by the USC School of Social Work Center for Innovation and Research on Veterans & Military Families, […]

By |April 19th, 2016|News|0 Comments