Exploring Moral Injury

Exploring Moral Injury

2025 Trauma Survivor Webinar Series: Exploring Moral Injury

The Survivor Advocacy Network (SAN) is excited to present a wellness webinar exploring how military sexual trauma (MST) survivors can manage the experience of moral injury, the lasting psychological, social, cultural, and spiritual impact of an act that violates one's moral beliefs. This webinar will take place from 7-9pm ET on June 10 and is presented by Major (USAF) Latetia Bland-Thergood, MSW. The event is open to all uniformed and veteran women officers and women who attended a service academy/military college (regardless of graduation status) who have experienced a sexual assault or other negative sexual experience. 

More about Latetia Bland-Thergood

Latetia Bland is an active duty Personnel Officer in the U.S. Air Force who has served over 12 years.  She currently serves as the deputy Force Support Squadron commander at Buckley Space Force Base in Colorado.  She runs a 250+ person squadron, governing all things Human Resources, Manpower, Morale, Welfare and Recreation for 15,000 people. 

In and out of uniform, Latetia is passionate about the healing of all survivors of trauma. During her career, she has had the opportunity to serve as a Sexual Assault Response Coordinator (SARC), coordinating care and support for survivors of sexual trauma serving in or for the Armed Services. As a SARC and throughout her military career, she trained thousands of Department of Defense civilians and military members on enthusiastic consent, diversity and inclusion, trauma informed care, cultural competency, and empathetic and inclusive response to trauma. 

During, and after, her Masters of Social Work program, she served as a civilian volunteer counselor with The Center for Sexual Assault Survivors in Newport News Virginia, advocating for victims in the hospital, coordinating support, running a weekly support group and conducting community education. 

She has had the honor of conducting training with NOVA in the past under the Military Members and Families Project on topics around military sexual trauma and its impacts. She is a passionate speaker and advocate working diligently for survivors on their journey of healing as well as building educated communities ready to support them.