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Tread On Trafficking Wellness Challenge

Join Yale’s affinity groups for a 30-day wellness challenge and fundraiser to help end child trafficking and exploitation.

Tread on Trafficking is a fundraising and awareness challenge where treaders ask sponsors to support them for running, swimming, biking, or working out – with all the money raised going directly to Love146, a human rights organization working to end child trafficking.

Challenge yourself, connect to others, help protect children. Join our affinity group team and/or make a donation today!

March Veterans Empowerment Seminar

Please join the National Veterans Council for Legal Redress during our monthly Veterans Empowerment Seminar. NVCLR serves veterans who have been discharged with Honorable and Other than Honorable discharge status. This discharge status could have numerous explanations including Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), un-diagnosed mental and physical health conditions.

Veterans Empowerment Seminar

Please join the National Veterans Council for Legal Redress during our monthly Veterans Empowerment Seminar.

NVCLR serves veterans who have been discharged with Honorable and Other than Honorable discharge status. This discharge status could have numerous explanations including Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), un-diagnosed mental and physical health conditions. This can lead to the inability to access benefits such as education assistance, housing assistance, disability, employment assistance all leading to homelessness or dependence.

MLK Celebration 2022

Each January, the Yale community gathers to celebrate Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy as a leader and visionary in the struggle for justice. Check out our curated list of events and opportunities that will highlight Yale’s and Greater New Haven’s spirit of service, and provide an opportunity for education and unity in these challenging times.

2022 University MLK Commemoration feat. Majora Carter

ECHO Perfect 10 Training & Internship

Echo Perfect 10 is a training and experiential learning initiative implemented to prepare high school students and young adults for introduction to workplace culture, nurture interest in a variety of employment opportunities, increase self-confidence and ultimately support successful employment placement. It is a preparatory employment program comprised of three learning tiers – curricula-based training (Tier I), job shadowing (Tier II), and internships (Tier III) and is available to high school students who reside in New Haven.

10th Annual Veterans Commemoration

Join the VITAS Healthcare staff, Connecticut veterans, families, state and military dignitaries on the pier of the Historic Ship Nautilus for the 10th Annual Groton Nautilus celebration of veterans.

Commemorate the servicemen and servicewomen whose sacrifices enable the American way of life. Veterans, living and deceased, will be honored through a ringing of the bells.

Enjoy music with a color guard performance, a military ceremony and red-white-and-blue patriotism. Refreshments and fellowship will immediately follw the program.

Salute America’s Living Heroes

VITAS® Healthcare wants to enlist your services to help veterans near the end of life. They looking for veterans of the armed services and others who want to honor and support our living heroes. All volunteers are trained to meet specific end-of-life needs of veterans to improve their quality of life.

VITAS wants you to:

Giant Steps In Art Therapy: Under Control

John Jones is a U.S. Navy Vietnam Veteran, 1966-1970. He has been a member of the Art of the Brave Art Therapy Group for many years. “I have become more social and less isolated since attending the group. I’ve become much better at expressing myself and it is has helped me get some of the darker, deeper thoughts under control.”

Yale Day of Service 2018

The 2018 Yale Day of Service (YDOS) program was held at the West Haven VA Hospital (Eastern Blind Rehabilitation Service) on Saturday, May 5th. Participants were mostly Yale alumni and staff, along with students from Guilford High School and a few members of the public. Link out to the Yale News article here or continue reading for reflections from Henry Kwan ‘05 MA, an Army veteran and Director for Shared Interest Groups at the Association of Yale Alumni. He works

Giant Steps In Art Therapy: A Great Energy

Jennifer DeGaetano is a U.S Army Active Duty veteran that served in Fort Hood 2001-2003, as a Truck Driver, Army Reservist Postal Clerk, OIF Deployment Bagdad, Iraq, 2004-2005. She began the Giant Steps group four years ago. “I had a lot of anger and couldn’t speak up for myself. I did not know that life experiences also triggered my anger. I did not know that my military life affected my whole life and that work and life experiences were my triggers. It took me a long time to realize my anger, anxiety, and depression were military-related.

Events

Wonderful Books and Where to Find Them

Sat May 04, 2024

New Haven Free Public Library - Ives Main Library NHFPL-IVES See map

133 Elm Street

New Haven, CT 06510