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November 11, 2025 4:00 PM - 4:45 PM EST

Vital Lessons: Caring for Veterans, Families, and Communities

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Vital Lessons: Caring for Veterans, Families, and Communities

Date

November 11, 2025 4:00 PM - 4:45 PM EST

Location

Online

Cost

Free

Credit

Attributes

Good for Parents
Subject Health and Wellness • Professional Learning • Social Studies — Current Events
Grade Level Grades 9-12, Higher Education, Adult Education, Professional Development, Paraprofessional and School Related Personnel, Specialized Instructional Support Personnel

About This Webinar

This Veterans Day, Vital Lessons is about gratitude and action—honoring those who have served and serve our country, and learning how we can better support them and the communities they strengthen.

Join Dr. Vin Gupta, AFT President Randi Weingarten, and Dr. Irwin Redlener for a timely, practical discussion on veterans’ health, mental health, and resilience. We’ll highlight what’s changing inside the Department of Veterans Affairs, what’s improving, and where communities can make the biggest difference.

We’ll also expand the conversation to discuss the challenges that educators, public employees, healthcare professionals and retirees are seeing every day:

  • How to talk with kids about emergencies, climate events and violence;
  • What to do when hunger hits schools and workplaces amid Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (also known as SNAP) or electronic benefits transfer (EBT) delays; and
  • Simple, community-based steps members can take to strengthen care and connection.

This Veterans Day, join us in recognizing service—and turning gratitude into meaningful, everyday actions across all the communities we serve.

This session is part of AFT’s Vital Lessons webinar series, bringing timely, trusted and practical health and wellness conversations to our members in education, healthcare and public services.

Missed a Vital Lessons webinar? Access all sessions for free: https://webinars.on24.com/aft/VitalLessons

Speakers

Irwin RedlenerDr. Irwin Redlener
Adjunct Senior Research Scholar, School of International & Public Affairs, Columbia University

Co-Founder, Ukraine Children's Action Project

Adjunct Professor of Pediatrics, Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Dr. Redlener co-founded the non-profit Ukraine Children’s Action Project in the aftermath of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. UCAP supports more than 25 projects that support children affected by the war.

He is also a Senior Advisor for the National Center for Disaster Preparedness (NCDP), Columbia Climate School, at Columbia University, which works to understand and improve the nation’s capacity to prepare for, respond to, and recover from disasters. Dr. Redlener founded NCDP in 2003 and served as its director from 2003-2020. He is a nationally recognized expert on disaster preparedness policies, pandemic influenza, the threat of terrorism in the U.S., the impact and consequences of major natural disasters, and related issues.

Dr. Redlener is the author of The Future of Us: What the Dreams of Children Mean for Twenty-First-Century America, which earned the 2020 Gold Nautilus Book Award. He is also the author of Americans At Risk: Why We Are Not Prepared For Megadisasters and What We Can Do Now. Previously, he served as one of the 10 members of the congressionally established National Commission on Children and Disasters. More

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President, AFT

RANDI WEINGARTEN is president of the 1.8 million-member AFT, AFL-CIO, which represents teachers; paraprofessionals and school-related personnel; higher education faculty and staff; nurses and other healthcare professionals; local, state and federal government employees; and early childhood educators. The AFT champions fairness; democracy; economic opportunity; and high-quality public education, healthcare and public services for students, their families and communities. The AFT and its members advance these principles through community engagement, organizing, collective bargaining and political activism, and especially through members’ work.

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Public Health Physician, Professor, and Health Policy Expert

Dr. Vin Gupta, MD, MPA, is a public health physician, professor, and health policy expert. As a Harvard-trained lung specialist, Vin has spent the past 15 years working worldwide to improve public health for organizations including the US Centers for Disease Control, the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, the Harvard Global Health Institute, the World Health Organization, and the Pentagon’s Center for Global Health Engagement. Given his diversity of experiences, he is now a trusted advisor and contributor to national and international media outlets on several of the most important health issues today, including serving as a regular health policy analyst for NBC News and contributor to the New York Times and CNN New Day. As you will see below, Vin is committed to voicing evidence-informed perspectives across a range of critical issues like domestic US healthcare reform, the vaping epidemic, the effects of climate change on human health, and gun control. In doing so, he speaks honestly and is driven by evidence, not opinion or dogma.

Professional Credit

Share My Lesson webinars are available for one-hour of PD credit. A certificate of completion will be available for download at the end of your session that you can submit for your school's or district's approval.

In addition, Share My Lesson has arrangements in place as follows:

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