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Home : Policy Areas : Center for Democracy and Citizenship Warrior to Citizen Campaign

Warrior to Citizen Campaign

The Warrior to Citizen Campaign is a grassroots effort to provide enduring support to Minnesota's returning veterans and their families. It challenges all Minnesotans to think actively and creatively about how returning veterans can contribute their new skills and insight to our organizations, Community Stand To in Bloomingtonbusinesses, schools, local governments and communities—as citizens. By engaging veterans in education, faith, civic, government and community life, we can offer them unique ways to reconnect with the communities they left behind.

The Warrior to Citizen Campaign is organized by the Center for Democracy and Citizenship as part of Minnesota Works Together, a long-term effort to renew the democratic way of life in our state.

Read more about the campaign on the By the People blog, or click here for the latest campaign news. Click here for ways you can be involved.


What's it like to cover news stories from a war zone?U of M students embedded with National Guard soldiers during training

In June, six future journalists donned Kevlar helmets and spent a week producing stories while embedded with Minnesota National Guard soldiers during training exercises. Read more, and watch short videos produced by the students. Two of the students and the National Guard battalion commander involved in this experience will speak at a public event from noon to 1 p.m. on Oct. 16 at the Humphrey Center.

 


Karly Vogel, veteran, oral history projectParticipate as an interviewee in the Warrior to Citizen oral history project.

Karly Vogel (at left) joined the Minnesota Air National Guard in 2002, partly as a way to pay for college. In 2004—at the age of 20—she requested and was granted a chaplain assistant position at Landstuhl Army Base in Germany, where she spent six months ministering to wounded service members coming from Iraq and Afghanistan. Today, she is a Military OneSource consultant. Listen to excerpts from her interview. (3 min)

 

 


Get involved

  • Organize your friends, block club, or church group to take action (here are some talking points). Several church and community groups are using the Warrior to Citizen Campaign facilitator's guide for community discussions. Facilitator training is also available; contact Jim Lewis.

  • Veterans and non-veterans have created the Warrior to Citizen challenge coin to recognize the service of veterans. Find out about coin events and how to support the coin program.

More ways to get involved

Impact of the campaignWarrior to Citizen challenge coin

Resources for veterans, families and communities

History of the campaign

In the news

From Combat to Campus; Ross Hedlund and other war veterans struggle to fit in
September-October 2008, Minnesota Magazine

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