Campus Representatives Resources
Thank you for commitment to Division 19 and devoting your future career to serving servicemembers, veterans, and their families.
If you are not a Campus Representative yet, we encourage you to apply! Click here.
If you are already representing Div19 on your campus, thank you for your hard work thus far. If you need a boost to get your Chapter going or some ideas to take it to the next level, we are here to help.
Former SAC chairs LT Jennifer Barry and CPT David Barry, USA, have developed the following handbook to help you. Below the handbook, please find some additional ideas.
If you are not a Campus Representative yet, we encourage you to apply! Click here.
If you are already representing Div19 on your campus, thank you for your hard work thus far. If you need a boost to get your Chapter going or some ideas to take it to the next level, we are here to help.
- First of all, please use your Regional Representatives as mentors to guide you through this process.
- Second, take a look at the materials we have made available to you.
- Contact us to have us add you to the Campus Representative Dropbox folder, where we share resources with each other.
- If you need additional support, please contact us to let us know how we can help!
Former SAC chairs LT Jennifer Barry and CPT David Barry, USA, have developed the following handbook to help you. Below the handbook, please find some additional ideas.
| Campus Representative Handbook |
Campus Representatives: Developing chapters and establishing officers
- Assess your University’s unique climate and needs.
- Find a faculty mentor.
- Use your Regional Representatives as mentors.
- Seek partnerships with existing organizations (e.g., Student Veterans of America).
- Find individuals sympathetic to military psychology in primary student organizations (e.g., Student Government, APAGS, Psi Chi), and seek their assistance for the creation/development of your chapter. Join these organizations and help them as well.
- If possible, survey your students (either the student body or your developing Chapter) to identify what sorts of programming or resources they would benefit from.
- Review the Campus Representative Roles & Responsibilities.
- Find someone to help, so you don’t have to do it alone.
- As you begin, establish offices in keeping with who is doing do the work.
- Again, learn as much as you possibly can about military psychology.
How to Hold Local Seminars or Events
Provide programming that your students are requesting. / Survey your students.
With your leadership team and faculty mentor, work to establish a venue, topic / presenter, and a date.
Venue
- Your university may be willing to provide a venue
- If not, get in touch with your network to find one (i.e., local VAs, community centers, military museums)
- Your list of topics are generally bound by your access to presenters.
- There is a cost/benefit comparison here between what your student body needs and what you can muster.
- Generally, your own university’s professors are less of a “draw."
- As you are starting out, it may help to provide seminars on requisite competencies and hot topics (i.e., CPT, PE, TBI)
- It helps to plan your big events with a good deal of space around them to ensure they remain a “draw.”
- So try not to book against finals, comps/quals, when everyone’s gone from campus, etc.
- Lead-in time: I recommend at least one-month lead-in time. Always.
- The larger the event is, the more lead-in time may be required.
- If possible, make a flyer for your event and post it on virtual forums and in-person situations.
- The best promotion is word-of-mouth. Get your lieutenants and other students to bring up your event frequently.
- Get your faculty interested, and get them to mention your event in their classes if possible.
- Emphasis the “so what.” (Why should people come?)
- Don't promote too early. For most markets, one month is sufficient. Know your battleground.
Contact your Regional Representative to open up your event to other chapters!
