On Support for Veterans and the IVMF with Nick Armstrong | Justice For All Ep.16 | LegalShield

Join @LegalShield CEO Jeff Bell as he chats with Dr. Nick Armstrong - Managing Director of Research & Data at The Institute for Veterans and Military Families, known as the IVMF, and he is also an adjunct professor at The Maxwell School for Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University. Dr. Armstrong served in the U.S. Army for 8 years, including 3 years deployed in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Bosnia. 

He has served as a research fellow at the Syracuse University Institute for Security, Policy, and Law. Dr. Armstrong has also been named in the HillVets 100 list of the nation's 100 most influential veterans, service members, and veteran community advocates.

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00:00 Introduction

01:48 Can you share your experience of being in the service and how this has influenced your work with veterans

06:00 How do you recruit people and organizations to the program to support veterans through the IVMF?

08:50 How does the organization help veterans engage and find a meaningful way forward when leaving the service?

12:48 Do you have special programs for veterans and unique support systems to deal with veterans coming out of active duty?

15:38 Is there an even distribution of support across all levels of the military?

17:50 Does the retraining support cover a range of industries and skills such as management, tech, and so on?

19:03 Are you able to leverage the nature of evolving leadership in the military in the programs for veterans?

22:10 What is some of the other work that you do as a teacher at Syracuse University?

25:45 About the other organizations that also help to provide support for veterans

27:10 About your wider influence for veteran support aside from the IVMF?

29:20 Are there any other critical takeaways today, and what ways can people interested in helping get involved?

31:23 Who do you think we should invite on to continue to advocate for equal access to justice, especially around veterans and military families?

Visit IVMF.syracuse.edu for more information on the organization, what support is available, how you can benefit from the support as a veteran or family of a veteran, and get involved.