The Chez Veterans Center continues to celebrate Veterans Day with our annual event; this year was no different. We hosted several events the week of Veterans Day, including cultural competency trainings, an Employee Veterans Day Lunch, Assistive Health Technologies presentation on Veteran Health Needs, blood drive, and Veterans Mental Health First Aid.
This year we featured Retired Colonel Debora Olson Read as our Veterans Day featured speaker. Col. Read is a University of Illinois alum and pioneer woman in the University of Illinois ROTC curriculum as one of the first women the graduate from the program. Col. Read spoke about her experiences over 30 years in the Army and her continued service to the Military Women’s Memorial.