John F. Kennedy University - VALOR Center

07/31/2019

According to the Department of Veterans Affairs, an estimated 640 WWII veterans die each day. Honor Flight Network will continue do whatever it takes to fulfill the dreams of our veterans and help our heroes travel absolutely free.

Subsequent to the World War II veterans, our efforts will then focus on our Korean War and then Vietnam War veterans, honoring them similarly. (Note: Some hubs are now accepting applications from Korean and Vietnam Veterans. Please contact your local hub to see if they are accepting these applications.)

https://www.honorflight.org/

Please reach out to Honor Flight if you have a family member that has served during WWII, Korean or Vietnam wars.

03/21/2019

Congratulations Iraqi Navy Seal Interpreter "Johnny Walker" on your citizenship here in the USA!!! Well deserved! Thank you for your service!!

Former interpreter Johnny Walker on becoming a US citizen and Trump's immigration policies. FOX News operates the FOX News Channel (FNC), ...

03/08/2019

Happy International Women’s Day to all active duty and women veterans!

02/19/2019

Happy President's Day to all veterans in education and beyond! "The nation which forgets its defenders will itself be forgotten" -President Calvin Coolidge

01/31/2019

Congratulations 🍾🎈🎉Ben Korsmo for finishing your dissertation yesterday!!! Well done!! All the hard work paid off! The VALOR Center is very proud of all your effort!

01/23/2019

Internship opportunity at DVBIC in Palo Alto, CA! Please email your CV, statement of interest and at least 3 professional/academic references to Nytzia Licona at [email protected] INCLUDE IN SUBJECT: DVBIC Research Volunteer 🤓🤓🤓

01/17/2019

This is Ben Korsmo. He is a current PsyD student who is finishing up his dissertation and has just been offered a full-time position at Vacaville prison. We are very excited to see Ben finishing up and very proud of all the work he has done in his program!

01/16/2019

Jonathan Loper is an alumni of the MA in Sports Psychology program at JFK University. Over the past few months he has been in Singapore working with the Olympic Sailing team! That has been an awesome experience for him and now he is gong to be moving back to Lubbock, TX and opening a facility to help children ages 6-18 to learn skills through the game of golf. Please reach out and support him as he moves onto the next phase of his professional career!

My mission, since graduating with my master's in Sport Psychology, is to enhance the lives of our future's generations. I have worked with underserved kids in juvenile detention facilities, Division II collegiate golf teams, as well as Olympic bound athletes. I found myself in search of what most...

01/11/2019

In 2019, the VALOR Center would like to invest some time with Women Veterans and address some of their needs. Please take a moment to read on the journey of recovering through trauma and coming out the other side through the use of therapy, education, fitness and group dynamics.

It is safe to say being an east coast girl, born in NJ and grew up the better part of my life in Pennsylvania, that my upbringing was very different from those who I would eventually meet in California. To say I always had a "tell it like it is" mentality and attitude would probably be an understate

01/10/2019

"America is like a bank: if you want to take something out, then you must put something in. The members of our military have, without doubt, put something into the nation’s moral bank"

What can you learn from former General James 'Mad Dog' Mattis? Read the contents of the email that's circulated the US Army and USMC, titled 'Secretary Mattis's Leadership Philosophy and Guidance'.

01/10/2019

Resistance Among Military Members- This is a topic I have wanted to hit on for a while and now is the time to address it. After getting fully out of the military in 2010, I found myself sitting in a new environment of academia getting ready to start my journey of education by doing a Master's Degree. While I went through this process, I found myself very resistant to people's feedback and found myself always looking back to my military experience as the bar in which I did well and succeeded. I found myself at times getting defensive about what I did or did not know. My perspective at the time was that I came from a cultured experience. I had friends from all over. I knew about being good to people and I thought that would be enough to get me by in my program. What I didn't realize at the time was how vast the world really is and how much education challenges our ability to think on such a larger scale. For military member coming through education, it's ok that you don't know certain things. It's ok to mess up and it's ok to not be perfect. Just do yourself a favor and take feedback and just receive it. Part of the growth process in education is being able to take feedback, use it, recycle it and then move forward with it in a new way- Noelle Morra, VALOR Center Coordinator hashtag hashtag hashtag

01/02/2019

"Most notably, the new policy will end transfers for service members who have been in uniform longer than 16 years, starting in July 2019. It also immediately put an end to previous exceptions that have allowed certain service members with more than 10 years in uniform to transfer the benefit without committing to serve four more years, including those who were unable to continue serving because of mandatory retirement or high-year tenure."

Most notably, the new policy will end transfers for service members who have been in uniform longer than 16 years, starting in July.