My heart sinks to my toes…my head spins with worries: is it someone I didn’t call back? Is it someone I couldn’t get onto my calendar for four weeks? Oh, God – please don’t let the name be familiar, please…
Read more →Faculty and staff at APSU have been participating in a series of classes to learn how to better meet the academic and emotional needs of the more than 1,500 veterans who are students.
Read more →Welcome to the next installment of our “Quarterly Activity Report”. We continue to work hard to serve our community better and more effectively. This quarter, we’ve had many exciting opportunities to expand and improve the services we offer to those who come to us in times of need.
Read more →Staying fit requires more than physical strength – it requires a comprehensive approach that focuses on the mind, body and spirit working together. It’s important to consider how mind and body practices like breathing, meditation and relaxation techniques can assist you in staying resilient or coping with invisible wounds.
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As one war ends in Iraq and another continues for the foreseeable future in Afghanistan, thousands of U.S. soldiers arrive home, only to face a more prolonged and far lonelier battle with the psychic aftermath of combat experience.
Read more →The recent merger of The Lazarus Project and SAFE (Soldiers and Families Embraced) was, as Rev. Jodi McCullah put it, “a no-brainer.”
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As the United States military begins the transition from a decade of war to a period of harsh fiscal realities, a new study by the Pew Research Center has taken a fresh look at the tough transition of military members to civilian life.
Read more →Hello again everyone!
I hope you enjoy the next installment of our “Quarterly Activity Report”. We’ve been busy, and some exciting stuff is on the horizon for us, and we’ve done some good things as well…
Read more →When the Lazarus Project began less than a year ago, the problem was getting the word out to traumatized combat veterans that there was a new resource for those needing counseling and support.
Recently, however, as word of mouth has spread through the veteran community, the success of the program has created a new problem — a shortage of funds.
Read more →Letter to the Editor by Don McCasland. Originally published in “The All-State” Nov 9th, 2011.
As we near Veterans Day 2011, it brings mixed emotions for me. The day is always filled with things like flags, parades and other outward and very public signs of thanks for veterans. Of course that’s a good thing I appreciate, but for me it’s also a time of sadness and frustration with a twinge of anger.
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