NSU Horizons Fall 2017

37 NSU HORIZONS VETERANS RESOURCE CENTER • nova.edu/veterans/index.html VETERANS BENEFITS • nova.edu/financialaid/veterans/index.html LEGAL SERVICES • VETERANS LAW CLINIC Provides representation in a wide variety of matters, including housing, powers of attorney, divorce, child support, and veterans benefits • NSU LEGAL INCUBATOR A postgraduate program that enables NSU Shepard Broad College of Law graduates to start their own solo, small firm, or nonprofit practice while serving veterans and low- and moderate-income individuals. nova.edu/veterans/services/legal.html CLINICAL SERVICES • Includes dental care, psychology services, family therapy and counseling, and trauma resolution nova.edu/veterans/services/clinical.html VETERANS CAREER SERVICES • Offered through the Office of Career Development nova.edu/veterans/services/career-development.html VETERANS ACADEMIC SERVICES • Undergraduate academic advising, tutoring, and testing nova.edu/veterans/services/academic.html ORGANIZATIONS • Students United for Returning Veterans serves the needs of veterans and offers support for their families. Contact: Stephen Messer, Ph.D. Phone: (954) 262-5792 Email: sm1851@nova.edu NSU SERVICES FOR VETERANS City College in California and turned to the veteran’s center there for help when a glitch in getting GI Bill benefits left her without money for rent or food. Upon enrolling at NSU, De Santis expected to get support from a similar center. But it didn’t exist. “I was just expecting the Veterans Resource Center to be there,” she said. De Santis got to work finding out how she could help open one. Durham heard about De Santis’ concerns. When the two met, De Santis said she told her, “We need to do this to help them transition and have a support system.” The two worked together for more than a year to plan the center. De Santis and other NSU student veterans teamed with The Veterans Trust, a grant-making foundation dedicated to veterans. Its executive director is Fort Lauderdale manage- ment and IT consultant Fred Roger, a Marine veteran who earned an M.B.A. with a concentration in entrepreneurship from NSU and now also is an adjunct professor. A $25,000 grant from the trust paved the way for the center to open. NSU veterans say that NSU is off to a solid start in supporting student veterans and agree that full-time staffing at the Veterans Resource Center is needed. Jordan said she would like to see NSU become more active in helping veterans gain employment. “More advocacy from NSU” on the benefits of hiring veterans who have important experience and are disciplined, dependable, and mature would make a difference, she said. “Go out and be the voice of the student veteran.” n The NSU Veterans Resource Center has become a gathering spot for veterans studying at the university. Front row, from left, Leonard Pounds, Isabelle Shick, and Kelsey De Santis. Back row, from left, Walter Castillo, Bryan Day, Timothy Snipes, and Chris Armstrong.