The Department of Defense dedicated the Severely Injured Joint Operations Center in early February 2005. The center was developed to address care, recuperation, health, benefits and transition issues for military returning from Iraq and Afghanistan who have been severely injured.

Severely Injured Service members and their spouses have expressed an interest in an opportunity to pursue diploma and certification programs or college degrees that will help prepare them for jobs and careers while they are convalescing, when they return home and after discharge from the military. We would like to link the members and spouses to schools that are willing and/or currently offering educational programs and scholarships for our wounded military and spouses that could be made available to them at a distance or when the return home.

The Center is developing a webpage that will tout and describe programs that are available to returning Service members and spouses. The Continuing Education / Voluntary Education Programs would like to create an education link connecting the Center's webpage to schools that are offering educational programs and scholarships explicitly for the Severely Injured and their spouses. The purpose of the linkage is to connect the potential student to the institutions' special programs and scholarship opportunities available to them.

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