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ABOUT BRAVE
Building Resilience and Advancing Veterans Engagement Across Texas.
This project will empower veterans and their support networks to help shape solutions that strengthen community connections, improve access to resources, and address the lasting impacts of moral injury.
THE CHALLENGE
Veterans experience moral injury, which causes feelings like guilt, shame, betrayal, and loss of trust, making it difficult for them to reconnect with their families, communities, and sense of purpose.
THE SOLUTION
This project partners directly with veterans and their support networks to better understand the impacts of moral injury. By working alongside researchers as collaborators, veterans will help identify community needs, shape research priorities, and co-develop future patient-centered comparative effectiveness research (CER) that reflects those priorities. This engagement lays the groundwork for research that is more responsive to the lived experience of veterans, with the long-term goal of contributing to improved well-being and community health.
bridging community & research
Together, We Aim To
Elevate
Veteran Voices
Center the lived experiences of veterans and their support networks to better understand moral injury and community needs.
Strengthen
Community
Connections
Build relationships among veterans, families, support organizations, and researchers to foster belonging and mutual support.
Co-Create
Solutions
Work alongside veterans and Caring Circles to develop resources, programs, and future research that reflect community priorities.
The Veteran Education Excellence Recognition Award
2021-2025
The Texas Veterans Commission (TVC) awards the Veterans Education Excellence Recognition Award (VEERA) to public colleges and universities that provide outstanding education and support services to student veterans and military-connected students.
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BRAVE Resources
Veteran Family Member
Kelly Clary, Ph.D.
Project Lead, School of Social Work, THRC Fellow
Texas State University
Veteran Family Member
Katherine Selber, Ph.D.
Project Co-Lead, School of Social Work
Texas State University
Veteran
Nate Rodrigues
MSIS, RCP, RRT, RRT-NPS, RRT-SDS, Project Team Designee, Respiratory Care
Texas State University
Veteran family member
Veteran family member
Veteran family member
Veteran family member
Cheryl Krause-Parello, Ph.D.
Operation PCOR Veteran Training Consultant
Florida Atlantic University
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Coming SoonThis project was funded through a Patient- Centered Outcomes Research Institute® (PCORI®) Eugene Washington PCORI Engagement Award (EACB-47901). The views, statements, or opinions presented on this site are solely the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily represent the views of PCORI®.