Colorado‐based Nonprofit ONE Freedom Provides Training for City University of New York as they “Lead the Way” in Veteran Reintegration into Higher Education

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Colorado‐based Nonprofit ONE Freedom Provides Training for City University of New
York as they “Lead the Way” in Veteran Reintegration into Higher Education

Denver, CO —Tuesday, June 1, 2010. The Central Office of Student Affairs and Veteran Affairs (COSA/COVA) at the City University of New York’s (CUNY) will host ONE Freedom to provide a 1‐day Strength after Service™ training for CUNY leadership and students on June 4, 2010.

Veterans and their families are returning to higher education across the nation due to the post 9/11 GI Bill. With one of the highest student veteran rates in the country, City University of New York is asking proactive questions about promising practices that will improve all programs and services for student veterans, reservists, survivors and family members. To this end, COVA of CUNY has contracted ONE Freedom to provide the 1‐day training, Strength after Service™.

Strength after Service™ (SAS) helps to bridge the gap for veterans and families and those inside of universities and colleges who will help them through the rigors of returning to higher education. SAS highlights seasoned veteran trainers who share their experience of going from ‘combat to classroom’. “The veteran perspective is important insight for non‐military audiences to learn and utilize, says Elizabeth Hawkins, founder and executive director of ONE Freedom. “SAS then teaches the insightful basics of the biology of neurophysiology: in other words, a 101 study of how the brain and body respond to stress.” The training culminates with deliberate stress‐mitigation techniques that are proven to relieve, and in some instances resolve, chronic stressors.

“Attendees will be briefed on the ONE Freedom model and guided toward developing their own ideas of how to incorporate “Stress to Strength” on their campuses,” says Stephen Clark University Assistant Coordinator for Veteran Affairs of CUNY, “and how to be role models of the message in support of outreach, recruitment, retention and growth of the CUNY student veteran population.”

ONE Freedom’s mission is to transform the growing national stress epidemic by providing
educational programs that empower system‐change and to research innovative methods of trauma recovery that improve self‐mastery of stress. OF programs focus on how the brain and body naturally adapt under adverse conditions, and training in the self‐mastery of stress via interactive workshops. ONE Freedom works nationally with returning veterans and families, education, healthcare, and other NGOs.

For more information contact Elizabeth Hawkins, Founder and Executive Director of ONE
Freedom, at (303) 444‐1221 or email elizabeth@onefreedom.org. ###

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