UTPB Mending Mental Gaps

03/20/2026

Starting 23 March we will be starting an 8 week Odessa Veterans Book Club group.

Veterans will be engaging in discussions of war and military-themed literature, graphic novels, poems, memoirs, and fiction. Themes include honor, camaraderie, displacement, mental gaps during moments of trauma, and the challenges involved with redeployment.

All Veterans are invited to attend.

03/14/2026

Thank you to everyone who joined us at UTPB on Feb. 23rd & 24th for the Mending Mental Gaps Reception and Discussant Leader Training!

Veterans, students, and community members came together to build skills for leading meaningful conversations on the experiences of war and the challenges of coming home.
We’re grateful for our partners at UTPB and the National Endowment for the Humanities – Dialogues on the Experience of War for supporting this important work.

Odessa American > https://www.oaoa.com/community/calendar/veterans-invited-to-train-as-discussion-leaders-in-utpbs-mending-mental-gaps-program/

Interested in becoming a future Discussant Leader? Stay tuned — more opportunities are coming.

10/12/2025

One of the Graphic Novels that will be discussed during the eight week block of group discussion is White Donkey: Terminal Lance authored by Marine Veteran Maximilian Uriarte. All group participants are given copies of the books discussed, free of charge to them. Books have been paid for by the "Dialogues on the Experience of War" NEH grant.

For as much as I yammer on and promote my graphic novel, it seems like a large portion of my audience actually doesn't even know what it is. That or they just don't care about

09/25/2025

The second cohort of the Mending Mental Gaps Veterans Discussion Groups are starting Thursday October 2nd at Midland College, 7:00-8:30PM and Monday October 6th at the Odessa VFW Post 4372, 7:00-8:30PM.

07/14/2025

Please join us on August 1st, August 2nd or both! At the UTPB Campus in Odessa UTPB - The University of Texas Permian Basin

07/14/2025

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