UO Veteran Community - VFSA

Attention current students! We have set up a Virtual Vet Center on Microsoft Teams, there was an email sent to everyone's school emails. We would appreciate it if you joined so we can keep in contact with everyone.

Big thanks to PrintWear for the donation and amazing work they did!

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Thank you to everyone that came to the Oregon vs Arizona tailgate last Saturday! And big thanks to Coors for their generous donation!

Congratulations veterans! Your hard work has made the news.

22 Pushup Challenge on UO campus draws attention to rate of veteran su***des EUGENE, Ore. -- Veterans took to the EMU on the University of Oregon campus Thursday to help spread veteran su***de awareness. KVAL. The Veteran and Family Student Association hosted a 22 Pushup Challenge. It's to represent the 22 veterans who die every day from su***de in the US. "Su***de due to PT...

Would you like to become the VFSA Secretary?

Tasks include taking role, recording the minutes of the meetings, and maintaining club documents.

If interested feel free to stop by the Veteran and Dependents Center in the EMU or email [email protected]

Hello all, we have a lot of events coming up.

Tomorrow is the Spring Football game where we will be honoring student veterans that have helped out in the community. Next week is Womxn's Warrior Week, and finally but not least is our annual PTSD panel.

Food will be provided for the PTSD panel and we'd love to educate anyone willing to listen or be a voice for someone that could use support.

Anyone is welcomed to attend our events that will be happening next week. It's a week dedicated to empowering and appreciating everyone who identifies as a woman.

It's that time of year again where we need new officers to represent VFSA. We will be starting elections on Wednesday, April 24th and end Friday, April 26th at 5pm. If you are interesting in running please contact us at [email protected]. Below are the positions available and there descriptions.

1. President (Required) – Facilitates, oversees, and conducts meetings, including what meeting rules are going to be followed.
Provides guidance and leadership on the direction and goals of the club.

2. Vice President – Performs the function of the President in the absence of the President. Conducts/enforces weekly meetings, advocates for VFSA, oversees all committee leads, and fills in other officers when needed.

3. Meeting Coordinator– Takes role, records the minutes of the meetings, and maintains club documents.

4. Finance Committee Officer– Tracks/Creates financial ledgers (Purchase Orders and fundraising), Submits annual AUSO budget proposal and attends annual budget hearing, writes, tracks, and organizes purchase orders, experience with Excel or similar program, Grant writing and business proposals, coordinates NatCon fundraising and payments, maintains organization’s bank accounts, collects or distributes any funds owed or due to the organization for extracurricular functions, collects/records/and deposits money raised during fundraisers, reports to the president on the financial position of the club.

5. Public Relations Committee Officer – Assists Secretary and Treasurer with performing their functions. Also tracks and coordinates with committee heads, solely responsible to head the social committee. Works with Events and Scheduling and CIS, UO Printing, UO Radio, and Campus Event Calendar. Social Media Management and promotion (including OrgSync). Creates posters/flyers for events, fundraisers, etc. Updates/maintains OrgSync website and post events

6. Community Outreach Committee Officer – Volunteer Coordinator, service project opportunities, works closely AUSO Veterans Representative and with fundraising team to make connections, attends meeting such as VetNet, ASUO senate hearings, etc. Maintains communications with Western Oregon University, Lane Community College, Umpqua Community College, and other colleges, reaches out to greek life and other ASUO organizations, visits other EMU spaces.

Join Us for a free social event. We'd like to do more of these. Please come out and show your interest for free food and keeping the Veteran Community strong.

Our upcoming Veteran’s Art Alliance is being held on Saturday, September 29th from 3 -7 pm. Guest artist, Lola Buckwald will be teaching a series of watercolor workshops. Our hope with this project is to help Veterans find their style of art and enter their completed projects into competitions, fairs, Art Walks, and local businesses. Please share this if you know a Veteran who wants to learn various forms of art.

We are also looking for artists to teach Veterans the art of photography, welding, ceramics, and trash to treasures. If anyone has these skills or connections, please email Stacey at [email protected].

Come and support the University of Oregon Veteran and Family Student Association get to NATCON 2019, this is a national conference where we can learn ways to help our community but specifically help our student veterans. All you have to do is go into Track Town and order using this digital flyer or bring in a printed flyer. Thank you for making our program be more successful!

If you are interested in coming to the parade and want to help decorate, then we are decorating near willamette. Everyone is welcomed!