Peer-Led Support Services And Their Impact On Helping Veterans Stay In College

The veterans sacrifice a lot for the better safety of citizens of the nation.The question arises, can veterans seeking help from veteran support program help them to stay in college to seek education? The answer is optimistic. A change of lifestyle from military one to becoming a student seems a difficult one but it can be achieved with aid and help of fellow peers.

Many universities offer support programs but they often fail to help veterans to make a successful transit from a service member to a student. The various attitudes of dignity and pride taught by military lifestyle stop veterans from taking advantage of these ordinary support programs.

So support programs that are veteran initiated is what can satisfy a veteran to become a student and complete his education.Such programs help to connect fellow veterans. It becomes easy when the fellows along with faculty members all are from a military background. The faculty was comfortable in teaching and the veterans who wanted to seek education were better able to adjust themselves the process of student transition from a service member of armed forces became easy, according to Veterans Today Jobs.

The Psych Central magazine reports that any such programs were initiated in various university campuses and it was found out that these veteran run support programs proved quite beneficial to the veterans who volunteered to seek education.According to the survey, the veterans could easily communicate themselves and were able to adjust in the university environment.They were able to take the most advantage of such a support program.

On the other hand, these veterans were found to not to adjust themselves in cooperating with a civilian environment .They could not cope up with an unknown civilian lifestyle. So it has been concluded that a peer-led support service helps veterans to stay in college and to extract the maximum benefits of the education

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