{"id":1991,"date":"2022-04-27T14:38:00","date_gmt":"2022-04-27T14:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/m-span.org\/pave\/?p=1991"},"modified":"2022-04-27T19:52:19","modified_gmt":"2022-04-27T19:52:19","slug":"april-2022-featured-campus-university-of-oregon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/m-span.org\/pave\/2022\/04\/27\/april-2022-featured-campus-university-of-oregon\/","title":{"rendered":"April 2022 Featured Campus: University of Oregon"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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University of Oregon is this month\u2019s Featured Campus! \u201cMia and Tyler, co-Team Leaders, have done a great job of putting on lots of fun events with great student turnout. The whole team has worked together well to navigate the many changes over the last two years. Their Peer Advisors do regular outreach and support students in every area of life,\u201d says PAVE Program Coordinator Riva Szostkowski.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mia and Tyler join Maria Kalnbach, Nontraditional and Veteran Student Engagement and Success Coordinator, in leading a team of nine Peer Advisors. The team primarily serves the 100 or so newer student veterans within UO\u2019s military-connected community of around 500 students.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The UO team is happy to have the pandemic-induced lull in activities behind them. Mia says that \u201cNow that things are in-person again, response to PAVE is incredibly positive.\u201d \u201cComparing this term to early 2021, I just feel like there’s so much more optimism for the program and getting involved\u2014it’s kind of remarkable,\u201d Tyler adds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With more opportunities for in-person outreach and interactions come more chances to directly assist student veterans who are struggling. Mia and Tyler can share numerous examples of instances where they and the Peer Advisors have been able to make a big difference in the lives of fellow students through PAVE.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In one instance, Mia was able to help a student connect with affordable housing and childcare, and now that student is thriving. Another student vet had had trouble accessing various resources at UO. Tyler connected with them and helped that student find and benefit from the food pantry on campus, as well as provided the student with warm handoffs to other much-needed resources on and off campus. \u201cI just find it so rewarding to be able to like actually help other veterans\u2026 to kind of give them that tool like I was given when I needed help,\u201d says Tyler.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The UO team has made a deliberate effort to make their military-connected community as inclusive as possible\u2014extending their outreach and community-building efforts beyond newer student vets to also serve the spouses and children of veterans. Mia\u2019s been told by multiple military-connected students that they feel like they truly belong in the community, which wasn\u2019t always the case before.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They have also made strides in drawing more women veterans into the community: \u201cI\u2019m really excited to see more women veterans coming into the center as well, I really noticed a shift and I think that PAVE is making a difference with that,\u201d says Maria.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Way to go, UO PAVE! We are so appreciative of the great work you’re doing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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