Greetings from LLCC Student Success! November is Military Family Month, where we recognize the commitment and sacrifice families make to their service members. We thank our service members and their families for their dedication and support to our country during these unprecedented times. In the last 18 months, service members have supported the country via staffing and running mass vaccination sites, during hurricanes and during the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the U.S. Capitol. Many of these service members are our own students.

Re-integration to civilian life is a difficult process for many service members and their families. We want to remind faculty and staff that for LLCC students that are re-integrating as veterans, we offer support via Talkspace, the tele-mental health provider; via our Success Coaches, who meet with our veteran students to discuss accessing campus and community support; via our Career Services Office, which can work with veterans to complete career assessment and resume work and job search support; and our Financial Aid Office, where our Certifying Official (Dawn Burch) can help veterans navigate how to apply for benefits.

We encourage you to support our veterans by referring them to these offices for support as well as learning more about supporting veterans in the classroom. A great resource is: https://veterans.columbia.edu/. (Check out the video library)

If you would like more information about how to support our veteran students, feel free to reach out to Alex (alex.berry@llcc.edu), Claire (Claire.heffron-mckinney@llcc.edu), or Melissa (melissa.franzen@llcc.edu).