Please see the Community Conversations with Veterans page for information about current programming.

Program Timeline – 2019

• November 20, 2018 – Applications due – Apply online!  Use the planning doc to prepare.
• By November 27, 2018 – Program notifications made
• December 6, 2018, 10am-11am – Welcome Webinar (required). Join us for a Zoom meeting featuring: Julianna Robbins, Program Manager, California Center for the Book / Nicole Schulert, Reference Librarian, Whittier Public Library / Ming Lai, Director, Visions of Warriors, Humanist Films / Keith Jeffreys, Executive Director, United States Veterans’ Artists Alliance /  Karen Bosch-Cobb and Jacquie Brinkley, Project Advisors, Veterans Connect @ the Library / Carolyn Brooks, California State Library
• January 2019 – June 2019 – Programs take place.
• Be sure to offer the Community Survey at each Community Conversations with Veterans program:
  Community Survey English Community Conversations with Veterans 2019 Survey MS Word and online at www.surveymonkey.com/r/CCFBCommConvVets2019
  Community Survey Spanish Community Conversations with Veterans 2019 Survey Spanish MS Word and online at www.surveymonkey.com/r/CCFBCommConvVets2019Spa
• July 15, 2019 – Community Conversations with Veterans Library Report Due! See https://goo.gl/forms/DYVmfyPCNJBNpiD53.

Program Resources

Please start with the Community Conversations with Veterans TOOLKIT (bit.ly/ConVetsToolkit) which includes programming and partnership ideas, and a booklist. We would love your input on this living document.  Please email jrobbins@calbook.org with title or toolkit suggestions.

Community Conversations with Veterans programs might include: interpretive or interactive exhibits & other arts-related activities and discussions, readings/speaker discussions, panel discussions, film viewings and discussions, book discussions, workshops (writing, poetry, other), oral history projects, restorative/trauma informed yoga workshops or presentations, mental or physical health related classes or panel discussions, workshops or presentations, and civic engagement or volunteer projects that encourage conversation and discussion during or after the activity.  California Center for the Book is working in collaboration with United States Veterans’ Artist Alliance and Humanist Films to build programming capacity at California libraries in the future.

Please be sure to also review the Programming Ideas and Resources information on the Veterans Connect @ the Library site.  Speak with your community partner about programming options. Share your ideas with us and we’ll add them to the toolkit!

2019 Participating Libraries

We are happy to welcome 15 participating libraries to the Community Conversations with Veterans program in 2019. Twenty locations will work together and more than 30 community partnerships will be established or strengthened!