TBI / Veteran Related Trainings

**Please note these trainings are aimed at increasing your professional development, but are not required by NCC. Therefore, the registration fee and time spent participating in these external webinars may not be billed to NCC.   

Wednesday, August 4: Intimacy and Aging: How to Support Romance Across the Lifespan 
Presented by The American Society on Aging
10am PT. CEUs available. Free.
Details and registration found here.

Wednesday, August 11: Sexually Speaking: Brain Injury, Development and Behavior, Part 3 Rebuilding Intimacy and Relationships
Presented by The National Association of State Head Injury Administrators
12pm ET. CEUs available. $10 – $15.
Details and registration found here.

Tuesday, August 17: Asking For Help When You Are Grieving
Presented by TAPS Institute for Hope and Healing
12pm ET. Free. Details and registration found here.

Wednesday, August 18: Understanding The Older LGBT Community And Its Unique Needs And Barriers
Presented by The American Society on Aging
10am PT. CEUs available. Free.
Details and registration found here.

Wednesday, August 26: Caring For Those Who Care: Meeting The Needs Of Hispanic Caregivers
Presented by The American Society on Aging
11am PT. CEUs available. Free.
Details and registration found here.

Friday, August 27: The Benefits of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to Assist Clients’ with a Traumatic Brain Injury or a Neurological Diagnosis
Presented by NeuroRestorative’s Neuro Institute
12pm ET. CEUs available. Free.
Details and registration found here.

Tuesday, August 31: Traumatic Brain Injury & Substance Use Disorder: Implications of Stimulants on TBI
Presented by The National Association of State Head Injury Administrators
12:30pm ET. Free. CEUs available.
Details and registration found here.

On Demand: Impact of Combat-Related Injury, Illness, and Death on Military Children and Families
Presented by Home Base Veteran and Family Care
Recording available here.

Resource Recommendation:

The Veteran’s Spouse Project

The Veteran’s Spouse Project (VSP), serves our military communities within their communities by building connections through our focused arts programming:

• I Will Wait is an original theatrical production currently offered as a reading, a reading with talk-back, and as a fully realized performance.
• Made For You expressive arts workshops are offered as in-person and virtual events that address topics relevant to military spouses and veterans’ caregivers to relieve stress and use creativity for expression and healing. They are offered in conjunction with I Will Wait and Stories We Tell programming or as standalone events
• Stories We Tell, a multi-media collection, is currently offered as individual and group video archival sessions in conjunction with I Will Wait and Made For You and as a standalone experience.

Further information can be accessed on their website: https://www.veteransspouseproject.org/

Creative Arts Corner:

Holy Spirit by Katie Joy C.

Peculiar,
faith understood as
secular—
Who decides
ritual and tradition
I will best observe?

Kneeling ‘fore
kings is expected.
Royalty
demands it.
Regal tributes to his throne,
bound to man alone.

Mother Earth
underneath my feet.
Lack of thought—
unaware,
I’m a subject in the realm,
nature—creator.

Kneeling down
in the shadow of
the moon’s glow
I’m certain
that there is no mightier
kingdom to survey.

La Luna,
she calls out to me—
Open wide
your spirit,
claim the night’s light as your own.
You are the moon glow.

Twilight hymn—
don your crystal crown.
Life as new—
Rooted.  Belief.
The rapture in divine.
Accept your birthright.

Glorious,
you are set apart.
Life holy.
Faith and fire.
The psalms of her majesty,
reflected in you.

Artist bio:

Katie Joy C. (she/her) is a poet and storyteller residing in Tacoma, WA with her service dog, Rhubarb.  She is a service-connected disabled Army Veteran living with neurological disease for over two decades.  Find her on Twitter and Instagram @katie_joyjoy

Creative Arts Therapist: Several of our warriors have been participating in creative arts sessions online once a week with writing instructor Anne Alper. Sessions focus on guided writing exercises with theme prompts to develop writing skills and structured writing practice.

Ms. Alper has a Master’s in Education and Counseling, is certified through the Amherst writers and Artist Foundation, and completed a 2 year program in California for expressive arts.