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Hello, im ivette torres, and welcome to another edition of the road to recovery. Today, well be talking about young adults in recovery, meeting the needs of the millennial generation. Joining us in our panel today are. Ben chin, cofounder, ptr associates, washington, dc; alison malmon, founder, active minds, inc. , washington, dc; vannasang souksavath, Ladder Project coordinator, the institute for health and recovery, cambridge, massachusetts; jim williams, executive director, the association of...

Stories. Im going each panellest briefly. Well start with questions. Nicole goodwin all the way down at the end, enlisted in the u. S. Army in 2001. She served as a supply specialist and was deployed in iraq in july of 2003 for five 1 2 months. When nicole returned to the bronx was one of the first Homeless Veterans of iraq war and featured in the document, when i came home as well as many news programs. She lives in new york city and raising her daughter and wrying poetry, fiction and nonfictio...

Of that. So within our own base we had to make sure all of the telephone cable and fiberoptic cable worked. It was a gigantic airbase midway between ramadi and fallujah on the alanbar province. It was like heading up construction crew and my marines were really hardworking. They were great. They would dig trenches and lay cable underground. We would get the entire Company Helping us out, 200 marines, pulling out cable under a airfield. They took out the old iraqi telephone wires and replaced the...

Thats right. What get you some stuff here. I like to teach my kid that. They say the most important thing of all that is complete to say thank you. Thank you for coming out tonight. One special thank you because i need to embarrass him. When i started my career in d. C. , when you do your first is that camino is going to be there. Her mom, dad, sister and i for one of my many friends and strangers to come. One of the first is a guy named elliott vehicle. Elliot in the morning. Lets hear it for e...

Women. There were many male soldiers who experienced Sexual Assault and Sexual Violence who have not come out at all because of the dynamic of well, you are a man, this doesnt happen to men. So the misogyny and the stereotypes in getting rid of these things and gender in grape is still gendering rape is still a dialogue that needs to happen. I have read articles about women who came out and said i was raped in my unit, and every single woman in that article experienced some type of blame and sha...

Discountedle for the price of 12. 95 with shipping. That is cspan. Org first ladies. If you are a middle or high school student, we want to know what the most Important Congress issued should address next year. 100,000 dollars in total prizes read the deadline is january 20. Next, Women Veterans of the iraq and afghanistan wars share experiences. They talk about their personal decisions for entering the military. Some dangers being countered in war zones, how they use skills during a deployment,...

Doing supplies and i was in an ordinance company. I was in an ordinance unit, rather, and my company was the largest of the unit. I could order a pen. I could order a machine gun. M 60s. Order i mean, these things were on the on paper. It is very interesting, the accounting for these incredibly weapons,nd powerful and at the same time, i need a royal a roll of toilet paper, some tissue. Its ironic. At the same time, you have unit. Upply you work with alphas. Alphas also work with the warehouse. ...

There in the winter of 2010, and the vegetation is very bare during the winter in the south. The enemy was relatively quiet. There we got into the spring of 2010, the vegetation starts to come back. This is an area where growing poppy was really important to the local economy. It also helped to give the foreign fighters cover and concealment to be able to move freely through southern afghanistan. So, i went out on a flight with one of our pilots. Wanted me to see what they saw and how much they ...

Others in an transformation of the Ongoing Services in the transformation to this. Very Little Information was available with what was going on in iraq in terms of what the women were doing. They told us there were primary sources of information of the way the women were being used in iraq. Since then a new generation of combat veteran women have emerged welcome home from these conflicts. They have gotten organized and are changing the narrative. They are raising Critical Issues including Sexual...

The institute for health and recovery, cambridge, massachusetts; jim williams, executive director, the association of Recovery Schools, houston, texas. Ben, the millennial generation goes 18 to 25yearolds, more or less. Talk to me about what are the major characteristics of this cohort . I really think our ability to connect using social media and all the other Technology Resources are really a strength and a defining characteristic of this age group. Very good. Alison, obviously, we have heard ...