Please share as you deem appropriate --- Please see the information below- Below is the official email announcement for the MCC (Military Cultural Competency) training with link to RSVP (see below). Please share this with EVERYONE within your networks. Our goal is to hopefully get around 40-50 attendees per training location. Please forward this announcement to everyone within your NETWORK (examples: ACME, Veterans Consortiums, etc.) The SUNY New Paltz Office of Veteran & Military Services (OVMS), the Institute for Disaster Mental Health at SUNY New Paltz (IDMH), and the Student Veterans of America (SVA) are pleased to announce our health and wellness initiative: Building Military Cultural Competency: A Training Program for Higher Education Health and Wellness Personnel. **This training serves to promote military cultural competence in higher education for campus professionals working with military-affiliated students. This training is intended for: • Professionals working in campus medical/health, counseling, career, or disability services • Other professionals interested in learning more about working with military-affiliated students The learning objectives for our training are as follows: • Understanding military culture, how it differs from the culture of higher education, and the impact of these two different cultures on military students • Understand military students’ perceptions of their strengths and weaknesses and their needs on campus • Understand military students’ help-seeking attitudes behaviors and decision-making processes, including barriers and access points • Consider how they can use this information to build engagement and outreach strategies with military students Thanks to generous support from the New York State Health Foundation, there is no cost to participants for this event’s registration. Lunch and refreshments will be provided at no additional costs. Seats for this event are limited and so we ask that you register for this event as soon as possible. Please pass this along to your colleagues and anyone else interested. Please see dates and locations of our training below so that you may find one most convenient for you: March 1, 2019: CUNY Central Office, 205 East 42nd Street 10:00AM-4:00PM (room and floor# TBA) . Click here to RSVP to this training site: https://militaryculturalcompetencecuny.eventbrite.com<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__militaryculturalcompetencecuny.eventbrite.com&d=DwMFAg&c=mRWFL96tuqj9V0Jjj4h40ddo0XsmttALwKjAEOCyUjY&r=G-HzncfJeVIdgoKZn7GqQIzi5PtaheCkubTCaCGicY0&m=rcDMgR1Qqlv_mJHKfGCGOSyGjkUtmHXbzi0yAvOZWOo&s=vjXsPObw8Kf9jWLSD7PSh1efRaU7jBpypRxPEb5Fd7w&e=> Training Agenda - 9:15 – 9:45 AM: Check-in - 10:00 AM – 3:00 PM: Military Cultural Competency Training - 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM: Student Panel Please see attached flyer for your convenience. * LUNCH WILL BE PROVIDED If you have any questions regarding whether or not this training is right for you, please contact Rebecca Rodriguez at Rodrigur@newpaltz.edu<mailto:Rodrigur@newpaltz.edu> or e-mail CUNY Central Office of Veteran Affairs via Veterans@CUNY.edu<mailto:Veterans@CUNY.edu> We look forward to seeing you there! Lisa [cid:image001.jpg@01D14DF6.45350050] Lisa Beatha, United States Army <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__en.wikipedia.org_wiki_United-5FStates-5FArmy-5FReserve&d=DwMFAg&c=mRWFL96tuqj9V0Jjj4h40ddo0XsmttALwKjAEOCyUjY&r=jr8Ufq7cbMIvFgl8WKvUubIGHvV9nPrI1BmstbKl4-njzdVRzSujOFB6Ru_gvkAF&m=IC2mkkSI1EKHAHOHJgkXlcbSeYC609k103TDAuFc6rg&s=psrcdgWMMhrKgqzcq4fHawZsHI04BiGWFo0UppFVwdw&e=> Veteran University Director of Veterans’ Affairs Central Office for Student Affairs 555 West 57th Street, 14th Floor<%20%20> New York, NY 10019<%20%20> Lisa.Beatha@CUNY.edu<mailto:Lisa.Beatha@CUNY.edu> P: 646-664-8835<tel:646-664-8835> www.cuny.edu/veterans<http://www.cuny.edu/veterans> ________________________________ To unsubscribe from the COSTUDENTAFFAIRS list, click the following link: https://LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU/scripts/wa.exe?SUBED1=COSTUDENTAFFAIRS&A=1