Our vision
Training Mission
WarriorNOW’s Training Department’s mission is three-fold: build a Network of Warriors who are certified mentors and peer support specialists; educate veterans, families, and the community at large about mental health issues specific to the veteran community; and ensure our staff are trained to be culturally competent and trauma-informed. Training is an important part of the mission as it helps to educate on topics that will improve knowledge and skills, as well as eliminate the stigma of mental illness, because with education comes insight, understanding, and change.
Training Content
WarriorNOW’s goal is to provide current, relevant, and a professional level of training and guidance from individuals who are subject matter experts. Training will consist of instructor-led courses in a classroom, online, or in a hybrid format, as well as self-guided online courses. Training will be offered on a monthly basis with rotating topics so that people have the flexibility to attend when it is convenient.
Are you a subject matter expert interested in volunteering your time to a good cause and a great mission? Email the Training Department if you are interested in facilitating a training for WarriorNOW!
Training@WarriorNOW.org
If you are in crisis or concerned about a loved one, please call the Veterans Crisis Line at 1.800.273.8255 and press “1” after you call or text 838255 to Veterans Crisis Line to chat live with a crisis counselor at any time.
Training includes mental health and substance use specific topics, how to mentor effectively and ethically, trauma-informed and culturally competent topics, self-care and successful life skills, judicial system related topics, and suicide prevention taught by a VA clinician.
Other vetted resources for culturally competent training:
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“The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character – that is the goal of true education”
Martin Luther King