For veterans and families: As part of the Warrior to Citizen Campaign, Northwestern Health Sciences University and the Adler Graduate School are partnering to provide pro-bono health care services to Minnesota military personnel and their families, including chiropractic care, acupuncture, massage, psychological therapy, and family counseling. Services are provided by senior interns supervised by faculty clinicians. The nearly dozen veterans who have taken advantage of these complimentary services report a very positive experience. For more information, contact the clinics below:
- De Rusha Clinical Education Center
2501 W. 84th St., Bloomington, MN; 952-885-5444 (chiropractic, psychological counseling, family counseling)
- Edith Davis Teaching Clinic
2501 W. 84th St., Bloomington, MN; 952-885-5450 (acupuncture, oriental medicine)
- Burnsville Natural Care Center
12445 River Ridge Blvd., Burnsville, MN; 952-894-7620 (massage therapy)
For veterans and businesses: A citizen group has developed a Warrior to Citizen challenge coin that Minnesota veterans will receive at educational or community events, or by participating in community activities such as the oral history project. Businesses around the state that want to honor the service of veterans are offering discounts or other incentives to veterans who hold the coin. Complete information for veterans and businesses
NEWS: Minnesota National Guard announces 800 troops from St. Paul-based 34th Aviation Combat Brigade headed to Iraq (Star Tribune, Mar. 19)
About the campaign
As over 2,600 soldiers returned home last summer after a nearly two-year deployment, Minnesotans across the state began asking themselves how they can support local veterans with the newest challenge they face: the difficult transition from warrior to citizen.
In response to this desire to support our returning soldiers, a coalition of Minnesotans created the Warrior to Citizen campaign, a statewide grassroots effort to provide enduring community support to returning soldiers and their families. The Warrior to Citizen campaign is organized by the University of Minnesota’s Center for Democracy and Citizenship as part of its statewide Minnesota Works Together initiative. Campaign partners include the military, employers, students, clergy, legislators, teachers and other professionals, and veterans and their families.
At the core of the Warrior to Citizen campaign is a challenge to citizens at the community level to find ways to tap the new skills and experience recent veterans have to offer. These men and women have come back with new talents and leadership skills; by engaging them in education, faith, civic, government and community life, we can offer veterans unique ways to reconnect with the communities they left behind.
We want citizens in every corner of the state to know that they can bring the Warrior to Citizen campaign to their community. We hope you will embrace the Warrior to Citizen challenge and consider the unique ways your organization or community could benefit from the leadership and participation of a local veteran.
“We need to look at [reintegration] as a call going from the warrior to the citizen. The Army trains individuals for six months to become a warrior, they practice for 16 months as a warrior, then 300 hours from the last mission they return home as a citizen.”
– Major John Morris, chaplain, Minnesota National Guard
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