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SVA Digest - 3/22/22

Omar Rutledge - Monday, March 21, 2022
 SVA Digest 

Hello Veterans and Friends,

This is the Spring Break edition of the SVA Digest, your information source from the MIT Student Veterans Association!

Below is a listing of the items presented at the bottom of this email.

  • Welcome to Liam Gale of the Office of Student Veteran Success
  • Harvard Square Homeless Shelter Volunteer Opportunity - 3/27/22
  • MIT SVA March M3 - 3/28/22
  • GI Bill Summit - 4/14/22
  • VA Research Studies for Veterans
If you have any questions or would like to put a message on the SVA Digest, feel free to reach out to veterans-exec@mit.edu.
 
Best regards

-Omar
 

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Omar Rutledge, MS

President – MIT Student Veterans Association

PhD Candidate – Gabrieli Lab

Dept. of Brain and Cognitive Sciences

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Welcome to Liam Gale of the Office of Student Veteran Success!
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The MIT SVA would like to extend a warm welcome to Liam Gale of the new Office of Student Veteran Success. Liam is a veteran of the US Air Force, and will be serving as the new Program Administrator for the SVS. Feel free to reach out to Liam if you have any issues regarding your benefits, or just to say hi. You can email him at liamgale@mit.edu.

Harvard Square Homeless Shelter Cleanup - 3/27/22

Have you been wondering how you can give back to your local community? Would you like to hang out with your fellow veterans while doing some good for others? Come join us as we hang out with Harvard veterans while cleaning up the Harvard Squard Homeless Shelter!

When: Sunday, March 27th, 9:30am-noon (2.5 hours total).
Where: Harvard Square Homeless Shelter, 66 Winthrop St., Cambridge, MA, in Harvard Square (next to Pinocchio's Pizza).

We will clean and organize stuff to benefit the guests who stay there at night.
Pizza from Pinocchio's, right next door, will find its way over to us around 11:30am. We'll stop cleaning at that point and gather informally for food.
 

Sign up here:
HSHS DeepClean Signup 27MAR22.xlsx

MIT SVA March M3 - 3/28/22

We are having our next Monthly Members Meeting (M3) on Monday, March 28th at 1630. We will hold the M3 as a hybrid event, both on Zoom and in the Lounge in 50-010. Pizza will be served in the lounge for those who join us in-person. All are welcome!
 
This month, we will be introducing the new Program Administrator of the Office of Student Veteran Success, Liam Gale! We will also provide some brief updates and discuss upcoming elections. Come out to the lounge and hang out with us! 
 
 
Be sure to register on Engage today!
GI Bill Summit - 4/14/22

The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs’ Education Service will be hosting the first ever 2022 GI Bill® Summit virtually on Thursday, April 14th, and you're invited to attend!
 
This will be YOUR opportunity to engage directly with VA leadership to get your education benefits questions answered and get the latest updates about how we’re modernizing your GI Bill experience.
 
When: Thursday, April 14, 2022, from 12 p.m. – 1 p.m. EDT
Where: Virtually via Facebook Live on VA’s Post-9/11 GI Bill Facebook page
What: An hour long virtual event to have your GI Bill questions answered, and learn more about:
  • GI Bill modernization and what it means for you
  • Monthly Enrollment Verification requirement
  • How the expiration of COVID-19 benefit protections will affect you
  • And much more
 
 
Then RSVP for the 2022 GI Bill Summit HERE: https://2022gibillsummit.splashthat.com/
VA Research Studies for Veterans
Dr. Nicholas Allan’s research is focused on developing and testing brief interventions for emotional distress in Veterans. We’ve been working on refining a brief telephone-based intervention for Veterans who report feeling disconnected/lonely and having thoughts of death. We are nationally recruiting for a small pilot trial, and participants will be compensated for the sessions they complete.
Dr. Elizabeth Karras-Pilato’s research is focused on developing better suicide prevention campaigns for Veterans. We are asking Veterans for their opinions and beliefs about what kind of messages would be most helpful to Veterans in crisis. We are nationally recruiting for this study, and participants will be compensated upon completion of a one-time phone interview.
If you have any questions or concerns, please contact me or the principal investigators: Dr. Nicholas Allan at Nicholas.Allan@va.gov (Loneliness in Veterans) and Dr. Elizabeth Karras at Elizabeth.Karras-Pilato@va.gov (Veteran Suicide Prevention Campaigns).
If you would like to learn more about the Center of Excellence for Suicide Prevention (COE) and the work we do, here is our website:https://www.mirecc.va.gov/suicideprevention/.
 
Monaé James (She/Her), BA
Research Assistant
Center of Excellence for Suicide Prevention
Department of Veteran Affairs (VHA)
EMAIL: Monae.James@va.gov PHONE: (614) 388-7008