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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 Recovery Schools, houston, texas. Ben, the millennial generation goes 18 to 25yearolds, more or les...

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 nonfiction. She graduated college in 2000 one with a ba in english in creative writing an anthropology teresa...

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 them with 30 kilometers of cable throughout the base. Then we got mortaredded. The then the cable would...

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 elliot. [applause] we havent told a story. We are going to tell it now. Everythings better on televis...

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 shame. This is not to say every woman in the military is going to get raped. Absolutely not. It is just...