Gwinnett Technical College’s Veterans Affairs Office serves over 350 veterans and approximately 500 of their family members by providing individualized support for enrollment and assistance with their VA Educational Benefits. Our services include a dedicated veterans’ lab for academic work, a newly added coffee and refreshment area to encourage networking, and professional development, workshops, and support groups. The office is staffed by a dedicated team consisting of one Director, two VA Financial Aid Specialist, one Engagement Advisor, and one
Enrollment Assistant.
Valor Wellness Program
The Valor Wellness Program is a new initiative designed to address frequent requests from veterans for access to physical fitness resources and to provide creative outlets to support mental health. Gwinnett Technical College does not have access to a gym on campus. In addition to this initiative, funding for our current support to veterans and their families with emergency financial· assistance. The short-term goal is to provide gym memberships and art therapy workshops to improve overall wellness, and support requests for emergency assistance, while the long-term goal is to establish sustainable partnerships to ensure continued wellness support for veterans. This program could serve up to 350 veterans annually, depending on available funding. Implementation will include partnering with the J.M. Tull-Gwinnett Family YMCA to provide six-month gym memberships, renewed each semester for enrolled veterans, and collaborating with the Hudgens Center for Art & Learning to offer art therapy workshops that promote creativity and emotional expression. Additionally, this funding will allow the Gwinnett Tech Foundation to continue to provide emergency financial assistance for tuition, books, program supplies, and unexpected living expenses such as transportation and childcare.
Rotary and the Fight Against Polio
Rotary is an international community that brings together leaders who step up to take on the world’s toughest challenges, locally and globally. The eradication of polio is one of our longest standing and most significant efforts. Along with our partners, we have helped immunize more than 2.5 billion children against polio in 122 countries. We have reduced polio cases by 99.9 percent worldwide and we won't stop until we end the disease for good.
5 REASONS WHY WE MUST RADICATE POLIO
Your gift will improve lives.
Today, 20 million people who would otherwise be paralyzed by polio are walking, and 1.5 million people who would otherwise have died are alive.
Your gist will invest in the future.
If all eradication efforts stopped today, within 10 years, polio could paralyze as many as 200,000 children each year. A polio-free world will be a healthier world for children everywhere.
Your gift will improve child health.
Polio surveillance networks and vaccination campaigns also monitor children for other health problems, like vitamin deficiency and measles, so we can address them sooner.
Your gift will lower health care costs.
The global effort to eradicate polio has already saved more than US$27 billion in health care costs since 1988, and expects to save US$14 billion more by 2050.
Your gift will make history.
Polio eradication will be one of history’s greatest public health achievements, with polio following smallpox to become only the second human disease eradicated from the world.
Gwinnett Technical College’s Veterans Affairs Office serves over 350 veterans and approximately 500 of their family members by providing individualized support for enrollment and assistance with their VA Educational Benefits. Our services include a dedicated veterans’ lab for academic work, a newly added coffee and refreshment area to encourage networking, and professional development, workshops, and support groups. The office is staffed by a dedicated team consisting of one Director, two VA Financial Aid Specialist, one Engagement Advisor, and one
Enrollment Assistant.
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The Valor Wellness Program is a new initiative designed to address frequent requests from veterans for access to physical fitness resources and to provide creative outlets to support mental health. Gwinnett Technical College does not have access to a gym on campus. In addition to this initiative, funding for our current support to veterans and their families with emergency financial· assistance. The short-term goal is to provide gym memberships and art therapy workshops to improve overall wellness, and support requests for emergency assistance, while the long-term goal is to establish sustainable partnerships to ensure continued wellness support for veterans. This program could serve up to 350 veterans annually, depending on available funding. Implementation will include partnering with the YMCA to provide six-month gym memberships, renewed each semester for enrolled veterans, and collaborating with the Hudgens Art Center to offer art therapy workshops that promote creativity and emotional expression. Additionally, this funding will allow the Gwinnett Tech Foundation to continue to provide emergency financial assistance for tuition, books, program supplies, and unexpected living expenses such as transportation and childcare.
Valor Wellness Program
Rotary and the Fight Against Polio
Rotary is an international community that brings together leaders who step up to take on the world’s toughest challenges, locally and globally. The eradication of polio is one of our longest standing and most significant efforts. Along with our partners, we have helped immunize more than 2.5 billion children against polio in 122 countries. We have reduced polio cases by 99.9 percent worldwide and we won't stop until we end the disease for good.
5 REASONS WHY WE MUST ERADICATE POLIO
Your gift will improve lives.
Today, 20 million people who would otherwise be paralyzed by polio are walking, and 1.5 million people who would otherwise have died are alive.
Your gist will invest in the future.
If all eradication efforts stopped today, within 10 years, polio could paralyze as many as 200,000 children each year. A polio-free world will be a healthier world for children everywhere.
Your gift will improve child health.
Polio surveillance networks and vaccination campaigns also monitor children for other health problems, like vitamin deficiency and measles, so we can address them sooner.
Your gift will lower health care costs.
The global effort to eradicate polio has already saved more than US$27 billion in health care costs since 1988 and expects to save US$14 billion more by 2050.
Your gift will make history.
Polio eradication will be one of history’s greatest public health achievements, with polio following smallpox to become only the second human disease eradicated from the world.