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Military Cultural Competency Training

June 4 @ 9:00 am - 12:00 pm CDT

Free

Military Cultural Competency Training

Build your military cultural competency to help service members, veterans, and their families.

About this event

Military Cultural Competency training is an entry level course that will enable you to become more aware of the military and veteran community as well enable you to become a peer mentor with the Military Veteran Peer Network (MVPN).

This training is designed to provide volunteers with frontline intervention tools to address the immediate basic needs of individual service members, veterans and their families.

Topics covered:

  • MVPN Purpose
  • Military Cultural Competency
  • Peer Ethics
  • Depression Awareness
  • Addictive Behaviors
  • Stress Management
  • Suicide Prevention

MVPN Peer Support Positions include:

  • Peer Mentor
  • Peer Group Leader
  • Events Leader
  • Peer Court Mentor
  • TDCJ Veteran Volunteer
  • Community Outreach

The training is led by the MVPN Peer Service Coordinators in Travis County.

Registration is required to attend.

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For more info, please contact james@samaritan-center.org.

Venue

Samaritan Center Austin
8956 Research Boulevard Bldg #2
Austin, TX 78758 United States
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