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Hassan participates in Clinton Global Initiative jobs summit

Anthony Hassan, director of the Center for Innovation and Research on Veterans and Military Families (CIR) at the USC School of Social Work, recently attended the Clinton Global Initiative America jobs summit, a meeting hosted by former President Bill Clinton on driving job creation and economic growth in the United States.

More than 750 business, nonprofit and government leaders attended the two-day event in Chicago, participating in one of the 10 working groups to brainstorm new ideas for generating jobs, identify effective ways to strengthen U.S. industries, unlock capital for innovation and entrepreneurship, advance energy efficiency, build clean energy infrastructure, and […]

By |August 10th, 2011|News|0 Comments

U.S., Canadian forces share war stories, how to help wounded warriors

by Maya Meinert

Lt. Col. Stéphane Grenier returned home to Canada after serving in Rwanda for nine months in the mid-1990s with the Canadian Forces. Though he didn’t experience combat while he was there, he wasn’t the same when he came back. Grenier soon descended into a deep depression and became suicidal.

It turned out he had post-traumatic stress disorder, but since he hadn’t seen combat, was he even allowed to have those feelings?

“There’s fatigue, wear and tear, that happens on the body when you’ve been on the front line for months,” said Grenier. “It wasn’t what we did but what we […]

By |January 24th, 2011|Events, News|0 Comments