Identifying Women Veterans: What’s in it for Everyone?
Tuesday, June 16, 2020
1:00PM - 2:00PM PDT
with Elizabeth Estabrooks, MSSW Former ODVA Women's Veteran Coordinator
Location: Online
Continuing Education: 1 CE Credit (Through the NASW)
Cost: Free for RVP Volunteer Providers
Who Should Attend: This training is open to all RVP Volunteer Providers
What You Will Learn:
Women have a long history of serving this country in uniform in roles that range from traditional to combat, yet is is not unusual for them to be overlooked in everything from social events to community programs and the VA. Women veterans themselves report in higher numbers than their male counterparts that they are less likely to be acknowledged and therefore less likely to consider themselves veterans when asked. Researchers both within and outside the VA have found this invisibility to be detrimental to how women veterans access and receive services across the continuum, from planning to delivery.
This presentation will help attendees gain a broad understanding of women veterans, their unique experiences, barriers, gaps, and challenges, why it is important to shift our service approach and delivery design, and how we can vastly improve our care and treatment of women veterans through intentional inclusivity of women veterans.
Learning Objectives
- Increase knowledge of women veterans and identify unique characteristics of women veterans, including demographics and health statistics
- Be able to identify common experiences of women veterans and how they impact mental and physical health
- Learn and be able to apply basic gender-specific identification and treatment methods
CE Faculty Elizabeth Estabrooks
From her youth, Elizabeth Estabrooks has had a passion for social justice, which she has used in her career for nearly three decades. In that time she has had the privilege of working in the fields of violence against women, diversity, peer support services, recovery, and gender- and culturally- responsive services.
In 2001 Ms. Estabrooks earned her Bachelor of Science degree in Gender Studies and Political Science from Eastern Oregon University. In 2013 she was selected as a Fisher-Cummings Washington D.C. Fellow and earned her Master’s in Social Work from Columbia University, where she began developing policy papers on the topics of military sexual assault, military culture, and women veterans and was invited to serve on the Department of Veterans Affairs National Domestic Violence Task Force.
During her career Ms. Estabrooks has worked with government, non-profit, and private agencies nationwide and in Canada, and in January 2016 she was honored to accept the position of Oregon Women Veterans Coordinator with the Oregon Department of Veterans Affairs, working and advocating for and on behalf of Oregon women veterans.
Ms. Estabrooks spearheaded the original {now national} I Am Not Invisible campaign and is a Peacetime Veteran of the U.S. Army.
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503-954-2259
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