Tag: military spouses
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Fort Carson spouse to lend foreign-born experience to national Military Spouse Leadership Initiative
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Ayana Garcia set about finding her place in Colorado Springs during 2022, when her husband left on a deployment a month after the couple moved to town. “I can’t just be siloed. … For me, it’s really about community engagement and civic involvement,” she said.…
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Colorado Springs-based nonprofit trains military spouses for portable careers
Two Colorado Springs-based military spouses recently joined a national cohort receiving free advanced training as professional photographers in exchange for donating their time to help transitioning service members prepare for the civilian job market. Portraits for Patriots, a nonprofit that provides free portfolio-quality portraits for separating service members, spouses and Gold Star families, recently launched…