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Known as the Entrepreneurship Bootcamp for Veterans with Disabilities, the nine-day program is intense, rigorous, and challenging. Through a series of training modules experienced faculty and successful entrepreneurs help participants learn how to start and run their own businesses.

All applications are handled through Syracuse University, where the program originated. The A&M session starts in August.

Those accepted likely will be routed to the school closest to them, said Dick Lester, the professor who will lead A&M’s bootcamp. And, because Syracuse and UCLA have teaching hospitals close by, severely disabled vets could be offered programs at those universities.
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A Hearst news service report quotes Washington Democratic Rep. Rick Larsen, a sponsor of the bill, who said the current law is "arbitrary" and outdated because veterans might have to put off their post-military education so they can begin new jobs or because they are recovering from injuries -- even while the GI Bill clock is running.

Under the current law, veterans have to use their education benefits within ten years after leaving the military. The report said the proposed legislation might become part of a broader bill revamping other benefits for veterans as well.]]>BY: TexVet AdminThu, 20 Feb 2008 15:01:09 CST#Post Traumatic Stress Disorder while on active duty, that diagnosis now will also be recognized by the Veterans Affairs Department.

An announcement by Daniel K. Akaka (D-HI), Chairman of the Senate Veterans' Affairs Committee, said Veterans Affairs Secretary Dr. James B. Peake has directed all VA regional offices to recognize that veterans diagnosed with PTSD while on active duty also will be recognized as having PTSD for VA purposes.

Akaka said this will hasten treatment by the VA and leave more time to reduce “the staggering backlog of veterans' claims."]]>BY: TexVet AdminThu, 20 Feb 2008 12:02:08 CST#Family and Medical Leave Act so that family members now can take time off from their jobs in order to be with military service members before and after they are sent to war.

The law change spells out that requests for leave from work for the family members must be treated, by their employers, in much the same way as requests from other employees who wish to take time off to care for a newborn, an elderly parent or a family member who is ill or disabled. It is still up to each employer to decide whether and how the employees might be compensated during their absence.]]>BY: TexVet AdminWed, 05 Feb 2008 18:42:12 CST#
The new study results, published in the current issue of the New England Journal of Medicine, has found that one in six soldiers returning from Iraq had suffered concussions and that brain injury made traumatic stress more likely. The study tied only one symptom - headaches - specifically to brain injury.

"The key finding in our study is that the majority of symptoms we might expect to be due to concussion are actually due to PTSD and depression," said Dr. Charles Hoge, a colonel and psychiatry chief at Walter Reed Army Institute of Research who led the study.

Thousands of returning soldiers have struggled with memory loss, irritability, trouble sleeping and other problems. And Imaging of the brain is being tested, but hasn't yet proven to be helpful.]]>BY: TexVet AdminThu, 30 Jan 2008 18:48:16 CST#
Dan Ratliff, Ph.D., who leads the program at St. Mary's University said counselors will provide marital therapy, family play therapy and individual counseling at sites in San Antonio. The focus will be on less sever symptoms related to post-combat stress, but counselors will refer people who are more severely injured to specialists.

Call the Military Family Counseling Program at 210-431-4394 or the Family Life Center at 210-436-3226.]]>BY: TexVet AdminWed, 29 Jan 2008 11:55:32 CST