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Conversations about the challenges military-connected kids face as they navigate multiple education systems from birth through high school.
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Thursday Oct 07, 2021
Thursday Oct 07, 2021
Understanding the foster care process and how military families are some of the best resource families available to those disadvantaged children.
Show Notes:
Funder: Kirkland Spouses’ Club
Kirtland Spouses' Club - Home (kirtlandspousesclub.com)
Bio:
Antwone Robinson has over 9 years of experience in the social services field. For the past 7 years, Antwone has worked for Oklahoma Human Services in a variety of roles. For the past 4 years, he’s been a major contributor to building up the foster care community in Comanche County, OK. Driven by the desire to help children and families live healthy and productive lives, Antwone takes great pride in recruiting/developing resource parents to care for children in Oklahoma’s foster care system. Antwone has been recognized by his peers and leadership team for his exceptional commitment and service to children and families.
Thursday Sep 30, 2021
Thursday Sep 30, 2021
National Military Family Association is offering parents of eligible military-connected children with exceptional needs, the opportunity to receive a free, special education curriculum that will empower them to be their child’s best advocate.
Show Notes:
National Military Family Association: https://www.militaryfamily.org/
Arc@School Curriculum: https://thearcatschool.org/advocacy-curriculum/
NMFA Free Special Education Curriculum: https://www.militaryfamily.org/free-special-education-curriculum/
This Podcast was made possible thanks to the generosity of the Maxwell- Gunter’s Spouses’ Club
Thursday Sep 23, 2021
Thursday Sep 23, 2021
Lilly Rivera from Gender Spectrum will be sharing how creating gender sensitive and inclusive environments for all children and teens aids in finding gender congruence.
Show's Notes:
Gender Spectrum:
https://www.genderspectrum.org/
This podcast has been made possible thanks to Cannon Spouses Club https://www.cannonspousesclub.org/ “Making Connections & Building Friendships”
and Fort Gordon Spouses and Civilians Club https://fgscc.com/
Thursday Sep 16, 2021
Thursday Sep 16, 2021
Missie Wertz, military spouse and mother, shares how raising her two children overseas helped her to have a better understanding of the sacrifices military kids make and illuminated the richness as well as the challenges they have now as young adults.
Third Culture Kids is a definition that refers to someone who is raised in a culture other than their parents’ or the country where they are legally considered native for a significant part of their early development years. This podcast will explore this definition and relate it to military kids who have grown up OCNUS and how their unique upbringing has impacted them.
Book: Third Culture Kids, Growing Up Among Worlds by David C. Pollak, Ruth E Van Raken and Michael V Pollack
Melissa (Missie) Wertz grew up on a farm in rural South Mississippi. In 1989 she married Stephen Wertz and they moved to their first duty assignment at Fort Sill, Oklahoma. Over the next 30 years, they served three active duty tours in The Republic of Korea and one tour at Stuttgart, Germany. Their daughter Rachel (25) graduated from the American University of Rome in 2020 and now lives in Washington, DC. Their son Sam (23) will graduate from The American University of Paris in December 2021.
This podcast has been made possible thanks to the generous support provided by The Association of Bragg Spouses https://fortbraggabs.membershiptoolkit.com/home and the Fort Campbell Spouses Club https://www.fortcampbellspousesclub.org/.
Thursday Sep 09, 2021
Thursday Sep 09, 2021
Amy Newsom will be sharing her family story of suicide and through the devastation of this event, how they have been given opportunities to have a meaningful impact on others.
Show Notes:
Honor Walk for Donor Family: Lifebanc » The Honor Walk
Military OneSource: Suicide Awareness & Crisis Resources for the Military | Military OneSource
Barry Robinson: Behavioral Health Services for Children & Teens - Barry Robinson Center
Stephen Cohen: Cohen Veterans Network | Veteran and Military Family Mental Health Care
Jason Foundation: https://jasonfoundation.com/
This podcast has been made possible thanks to the generous support provided by the Davis-Monthan Spouses' Club https://davismonthansc.org/ and the Mountain Home Officers' Spouses' Club https://www.mountainhomeosc.org/.
For the past 25 years, Amy Newsom has served and supported her husband, her seven children, and her military community. As a military spouse, she has completed seventeen Army moves, homeschooled her children for seventeen years, faced multiple combat and training deployments, and pursued her nursing career on a part-time basis. She has volunteered and served in international missions as well as in each community she has lived in and has served as the Family Readiness Group leader at the company and battalion level. She has also filled leadership roles in PWOC (Protestant Women of the Chapel), Mom’s Night Out Homeschool Support Groups across the military homeschool community, and she currently leads a Foster Adoptive Mom’s Group to support parents of foster and adopted children. Amy loves to travel, hike, spend time with her family and is currently pursuing a graduate degree as a Family Nurse Practitioner at Norwich University.
On September 11, 2019, Amy and her husband, Joel, tragically lost their 13-year-old son, Joshua, to suicide. Since this tragic event, Amy has discovered a passion to bring awareness, education, and practical tips to help end the silent epidemic of suicide that is occurring in our society. Amy has found healing through sharing their family’s story and hopes to see GOOD come from this tragic event by supporting and encouraging other families, parents, leaders, and young people to open up and talk about the hard subject of suicide and mental health. Amy hopes that sharing the story of Joshua’s untimely death and the painful journey his family has endured in grieving his loss might help prevent this tragedy from happening to even one more person.
Thursday Sep 02, 2021
Thursday Sep 02, 2021
Description:
The Lift a Life Novak Family Foundation's mission is to help those in need achieve their full potential. Learn about their leadership initiative, Lead4Change, for adolescents/teens.
This podcast has been made possible thanks to the generous support from Yuma Officers' Spouse Club. https://www.mscyuma.org/
Show Notes:
Research Study Link - Executive Summary: https://www.lead4change.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/Lead4Change-Research-Executive-Summary-2019-1.pdf
(2) Attachments- attached to this email
Website: www.lead4change.org
https://www.liftalifefoundation.org/
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Lift a Life Novak Family Foundation The Lift a Life Foundation was established in 1999 by David and Wendy Novak. The mission of the Lift a Life Foundation is to lead the way with innovative programs that help people in need and develop future leaders. The Foundation focuses on creative partnerships that make a lasting impact in the pr |
Leadership Podcast - How Leaders Lead with David Novak
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Leadership Podcast - How Leaders Lead with David Novak David has been asking leadership questions and learning from some of the most talented people on the planet for decades. Which is a big reason he became one of the Top 30 CEO’s in the world according to Barron’s Magazine. howleaderslead.com |
Debby Dodge: Lead4Change Grant Manager; Lift a Life Novak Family Foundation
Debby joined the Lift a Life Novak Family Foundation as the Lead4Change Grant Manager after retiring from USA TODAY as Senior Director of Education. Debby’s responsibilities include overseeing the Lead4Change Grant contribution, establish, build and develop strategic partnerships, facilitate teacher training and outreach and manage the Lead4Change Educator Advisory Board.
With a passion for education, Debby loves the work she does to shape the leaders of tomorrow through the Lead4Change Student Leadership Program. “We have seen first hand how Lead4Change brings about an amazing transformation in students and the communities they serve.” Lead4Change empowers students to act, to serve and to make big things happen locally or globally. Lead4Change is privately funded and free to all middle and high schools in the US.
Friday Aug 27, 2021
Friday Aug 27, 2021
Find out how Kids Rank not only understands the military culture but has developed opportunities for our kids to flourish regardless of their location.
"It's important to play our role in building communities of care for our military kids".
This podcast has been made possible thanks to the generous support from the Naval Academy Spouses' & Civilians' Club. https://www.usna.edu/NASCC/index.php
Kelcey Liverpool is the Co-Founder and Executive Director of Kids Rank, founded in 2012 as a nonprofit organization designed specifically to support the social and emotional well-being of military and veteran children. As a Navy spouse for 17 years, moving with her family a total of 9 times and volunteering in several roles at various military installation agencies, she understands first-hand the challenges that are faced by children and families of service members. Inspired by her own children’s resilience through many moves, separations and constant transitions Ms. Liverpool felt it was important to focus on the whole child recognizing both their strengths and challenges.
Over the past 8 years, under Kelcey’s leadership, Kids Rank has grown as a trusted organization in the Illinois military and veteran community with plans for expansion in the future strategic plan. In that time Kelcey has successfully built strong relationships and partnered with several organizations, such as the National Veterans Art Museum, USO of Illinois, the Red Cross, the Military Child Education Coalition and others in an effort to further the Kids Rank mission and awareness of supporting the needs of military connected children.
Kelcey was recently chosen to participate in a 2-year program as a Summit Fellow, a program that seeks to connect impact-driven leaders within the Summit community to affect positive change in the world and broaden their reach. Kelcey was also named as a 2019 Aspen Fellow.
Thursday Aug 19, 2021
Thursday Aug 19, 2021
Olivia Vernon likes a challenge. As a military kid, she's learned the importance of change and how it helps you grow. Listen as she shares how the CSforAll program through her JROTC helped her become the first female from Oklahoma's Edmond High School to attend the Air Force Junior ROTC Cyber Academy. Also joining her is her AF JROTC instructor, Major Weingaertner, who discusses the importance of this program and others, all which can truly impact a student's future.
Show Notes:
This podcast has been made possible thanks to Hurlburt Spouses’ Club. http://www.hurlburtspousesclub.com/home.html
“Meet Spouses-Get Involved-Help Our Community”
Facebook:
-CSforAll: @CSforAllorg
-Edmond Public Schools' Facebook: @edmondschoolswall
-Edmond North High School's Facebook: @edmondnorthhuskies
-HQ AFJROTC's Facebook: @HQ-AF-Junior-ROTC
-Four OK-81st AFJROTC Cadets are currently earning their FAA Private Pilot Certificates at OSU's Cowboy Flight Academy.
-AFA's StellarXplorers
-AFA's Cyberpatriot
AFJROTC CSforAll Partnership:
https://www.csforall.org/projects_and_programs/jrotc/
News article:
Through CSforAll, the SANS Institute provided our cadets tokens to continue their learning using Cyberstart in the summer of 2020.
Cyberstart America: https://www.cyberstartamerica.org/ "Discover your hidden talent and start your cybersecurity learning journey with CyberStart America. A free national program for high school students to master cybersecurity as a gateway to the industry and to up their digital skills."
Thursday Aug 12, 2021
Thursday Aug 12, 2021
Tina Boyle Whyte is passionate about creating opportunities for students to expand their future. As a first generation college graduate and a woman of color she understands the importance of providing high level courses, like Computer Science, to a more diverse population. Learn how her organization CSforALL has partnered with JROTC programs across the nation to help create a foundation for students to succeed in our every changing world.
This podcast has been made possible thanks to Hurlburt Spouses’ Club. http://www.hurlburtspousesclub.com/home.html
“Meet Spouses-Get Involved-Help Our Community”
Tina is a faculty member at Marquette University in the Computer Science Department. Most recently, she implemented the Computer Science Pathway to include AP Computer Science Principles in her recent assignment at West Allis Central High School in West Allis, Wisconsin.
Tina serves as a facilitator with Code.org, BJC (Beauty and Joy of Computing), and SCRIPT Strategic CSforALL Implementation Planning Tool a CSforALL implementation tool. She was named Computer Science Ambassador for the CSforALL Teachers community where she provided insight and guidance for the development of CS teachers in the Exploring Computer Science Curriculum.
Tina serves as the Project Director for the JROTC-CS Demonstration Project. She brings a unique perspective to the JROTC-CS project with 30 years in the United States Air Force Reserves and 23 years in education with an emphasis in Business and Computer Science.
She is excited to serve in the capacity as the Project Director doing what she loves: the military and computer science. Tina is passionate and committed to developing the K - Industry pipeline opportunity for diverse and underrepresented communities.
Facebook:
-CSforAll: @CSforAllorg
-HQ AFJROTC's Facebook: @HQ-AF-Junior-ROTC
-Four OK-81st AFJROTC Cadets are currently earning their FAA Private Pilot Certificates at OSU's Cowboy Flight Academy.
-AFA's StellarXplorers
-AFA's Cyberpatriot
AFJROTC CSforAll Partnership:
https://www.csforall.org/projects_and_programs/jrotc/
News article:
Through CSforAll, the SANS Institute provided our cadets tokens to continue their learning using Cyberstart in the summer of 2020.
Cyberstart America: https://www.cyberstartamerica.org/ "Discover your hidden talent and start your cybersecurity learning journey with CyberStart America. A free national program for high school students to master cybersecurity as a gateway to the industry and to up their digital skills."
Friday Aug 06, 2021
Friday Aug 06, 2021
Extraordinary military kid Diego, who is an actor, model, philanthropist and teen amputee, shares about his passion for making a difference and how he has never let his disability get in the way of his dreams of serving our military.
Once it is released be sure to check out Diego in the Netflix original film Mixtape.
Diego's social media sites (Facebook,Twitter, Instagram): @mrdiegomercado
Viral video Diego mentions in the interview: #amputeepullups https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=125780742775728
This podcast has been made possible thanks to the generous support from Eglin Spouses’ Club. https://www.eglinspousesclub.org/
"Making friends while making a difference."