{"id":150699,"date":"2024-05-30T08:16:35","date_gmt":"2024-05-30T12:16:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/?p=150699"},"modified":"2024-05-30T08:16:35","modified_gmt":"2024-05-30T12:16:35","slug":"wright-state-helps-connect-area-veterans-to-support-services-during-annual-vets-moving-forward-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2024\/05\/30\/wright-state-helps-connect-area-veterans-to-support-services-during-annual-vets-moving-forward-event\/","title":{"rendered":"Wright State helps connect area veterans to support services during annual Vets Moving Forward event"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Military veterans and their families were able to connect with employers and service organizations at the Vets Moving Forward event at Wright State University\u2019s Student Union on May 22.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">This was the seventh year in a row that Wright State hosted the event, which was organized by the Strategic Ohio Council for Higher Education (SOCHE) and the Greater Miami Valley myVeteran Community.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cIt\u2019s really amazing how many veterans don\u2019t know how many opportunities are out there for them,\u201d Deborah Ashenhurst, director of the Ohio Department of Veteran Services. \u201cAn event like this shows them all of the resources that are in the community.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Seth Gordon, Ph.D., director of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wright.edu\/veteran-and-military-center\">Veteran and Military Center<\/a> at Wright State, said the support that veterans receive from the university is authentic and real.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cThis is a privilege to work with these veterans, and it\u2019s easy to show up to work every day,\u201d said Gordon.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Some of the services available at Vets Moving Forward included:<\/p>\n<ul style=\"font-weight: 400\">\n<li>Veterans resource fair<\/li>\n<li>Veterans job fair<\/li>\n<li>Assistance with disability claims<\/li>\n<li>Dayton VA Medical Center enrollment<\/li>\n<li>Montgomery County veteran ID cards<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Over 50 service organizations and 52 companies participated in the event.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Military veterans and their families were able to connect with employers and service organizations at the Vets Moving Forward event at Wright State University. <a href=\"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2024\/05\/30\/wright-state-helps-connect-area-veterans-to-support-services-during-annual-vets-moving-forward-event\/\" class=\"morelink\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":150700,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4306,4305,729,725,727,2039,715,4293,720],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-150699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-air-force-rotc","category-army-rotc","category-around-campus","category-home-news-sidebar","category-homepage-photos-and-video","category-military-veterans","category-news","category-student-union","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150699"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150699\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":150715,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150699\/revisions\/150715"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/150700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}