GPS LifePlan Goals + Plans = Success

1. GPS LifePlanGoals + Plans = Success PersonalPlan

2. Explored the transition resources? Got Questions? Assessed your resiliency and ability to adapt to change? Established personal fitness goals? Examined the physical and mental wellness resources? Researched how to manage healthy relationships?

3. Deployment Support • MN Beyond the Yellow Ribbon • Family Preparation Academy • Checklist for Deploying While in School • Project new Hope • Strong Bonds Marriage Retreat • Veterans Linkage Line • MilitaryOne Source Reintegration • MN Family Support Resources • Mental Health Resources • VA Hospitals and Mental Health Services • Understanding Post-Deployment Stress Symptoms • Battlemind Training • Project New Hope • Helping Children Cope During Deployment • MN Nat’l Guard Youth Camps

4. Goal Setting Workshop • Step by Step Process of Setting Goals • Goal Examples in Career, Education, Finance, Leadership, and Personal Areas • Goal Templates in Each Area • Blank Forms for Additional Goals • Brief Tutorial to Begin Your GPS LifePlan eFolio

5. Transitioning to College • Military to College Guide for Student Veterans • MN Dept. of VA Higher Education Veterans Programs • Adult Learners • How to Cope with Change • Interactive Resiliency Course • Resiliency Quiz • Americans with Disability • Services for Students with Disabilities • Minnesota State Council on Disability • PACER Center LIFE BALANCE

6. Stress • Stress Resources • Targeting Stress Workbook • Military Pathways Online Mental Health Assessment • Understanding Post Deployment Stress • AfterDeployment.org: Life Stress Program • Tips for Returning Service Members • Managing Stress • Relaxing Your Body and Mind • Stress and College • How to Reduce, prevent and Cope with Stress • Stress at Work MANAGING STRESS

7. Maintaining Well Being Maintaining Well Being • Improving Physical Health • Healthy Living • Physical Activity • Nutrition 4 Life • ChooseMyPlate • Herbal Information • Why is Sleep Important? • College Student Health Survey Report • MN Service C.O.R.E. • Military Family Life Consultants • Military Pathways Online Mental Health Assessment • VA Medical Centers and Vet Centers Locator Map • Anger Management • Managing Emotions • Mental Health Conditions and Resources • Vets Connection • Perfectionism • Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder • Suicide Prevention • Mental Health Resources • Alcohol and Tobacco • Drugs: Illegal and Prescription • Addiction • Crisis Hotlines • Cancer Awareness • Heart Health • Safe and Responsible Sex • Sexually Transmitted Diseases PHYSICAL WELLNESS MENTAL WELLNESS

8. Home, Family and Community • Apply for a Food Assistance Program • Find a Food Shelter Near You • Minnesota Health Care Programs • Resources for the Uninsured • Find Affordable Housing • Minnesota Coalition for the Homeless • Lawyer Referral and Information Service • Legal Assistance • Helping Children Cope During Deployment • MN National Guard Youth Camps • At Risk Youth Resource • Child Care Information and Assistance • Family Education • MN Child Care Resource and Referral Network • American Refugee Center • The Center for Victims of Torture • The Immigrant Law Center • Refugee Health Care (MN) • Carpool in Minnesota • Minnesota Public Transportation COMMUNITY RESOURCES

9. Personal Relationships • Grief and Loss • Relationship Breakups • Coping with Separation and Divorce • Helping Your Child Through a Divorce • Minnesota Coalition for Battered Women • Signs and Symptoms of Domestic Abuse • Sexual Harassment • Healthy Relationship Looks Like • Assertive Communication • Communicating with your Instructor • Conflict Resolution • The Aurora Center • List of Minnesota Counseling Services by County • All About Sexual Orientation and Sexual Identity • Roommate Tips • Roommate Survival Guide HEALTHY RELATIONSHIPS

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